Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and performer. She has been a six-time record winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable like those on film or on television. Alongside performing on stage, she has established a successful career which is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category for an actor, she was also the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role as a character in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.