Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talents as actor and singer. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally comfortable on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and television roles. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also a thriving career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald was raised in a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she took home her 4th Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. She created Broadway history as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded awards in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy award for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.