Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at many of the top places around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in 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 thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first in the leading actress category due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway history as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Aside from setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win all four acting categories. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.