Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. A record six-time recipient from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition in which she won the most awards by an actor, she was the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.