Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. She also set the record for most awards won by a single actor. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of 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). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy award for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.