Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth in her career as an artist is unmatched. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. A record six-time winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television and Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition for winning the most awards for actor, she was the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.