Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. As the winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017, she also made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first actor to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is a featured appearance on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.