Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. She has been a six-time record winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured 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 The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series 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 critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest 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 produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.