Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She has been a six-time record winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her theatre work, she has many a career in musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating she was awarded the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. She also set the record of most awards won by a single actor. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as 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. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was an recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is a featured guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.