Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record in the competition in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.