Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. The winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies and TV. In addition to performing on stage, she has built a career that is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. She also set the record of most awards won by a single actor. 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 the musical Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.