Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, as well as an actor. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the 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 are as comfortable as those in films as well as on TV. As well as performing on stage, she has built a career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Also, she set the record of having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 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). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC 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 produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated in three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.