Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. She has been a six-time record winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb as those in films and TV. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also a thriving career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017 she was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record for most awards won by a single actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise 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 debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018 reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.