Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as actor and singer. She has been a six-time record recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition category for an actor, she also became the first actor to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald's theater credits also includes 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 premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is a featured guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.