Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is second to none. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally comfortable on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in TV and film roles. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The year 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as a lead 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. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony 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 debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition category by an actor, she became the first actor to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also comprise 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 in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular program 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 television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.

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