Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. Record-breaking six times recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside her stage work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She took home her 4th Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her 1st in the Leading actress category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the competition for winning the most awards by an actor, she was the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits 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) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.