Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy like those on film and TV. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. She won her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she became the first actor to receive awards in all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress 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. McDonald was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was an recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is a featured appearance on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.