Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. Record-breaking six times winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017 she performed in her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. 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 Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.