Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She has been a six-time record recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win honors across all four categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series 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 in the leading role, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.