Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Also, she set the record for the most awards won by an actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.