Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist because of her versatility and range of her skills as an actor and singer. A record-breaking winner of seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and An Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among Times magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious honor for achievements in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a knack for making truth come alive, her roles on Broadway or in the opera can be as welcoming as the roles in movies and TV. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard, McDonald took home the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The time following, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her an overall total of three Tony Awards at the age just thirty. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year old daughter was awarded her first Tony Award in the category of Lead Actress. she played the title character for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut performance in London's West End. Additionally, she set the record for the most successful wins for an actor, she became the first individual to win distinctions across the four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to receive awards in all four acting categories. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that began to introduce McDonald to TV viewers in her role as a dramatic performer. In 1999, she appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance as a character in"The Wit," the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television, but this time she was in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB program The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. First appearing in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal television drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now called Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.