Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth her voice is comfortable on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. Alongside her stage work, she has many a career in musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. 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 received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). 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). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Her next appearance 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's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.