Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.