Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. A record six-time recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film or on television. She has a successful career in concert and recording performing regularly in many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.