Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. Due to her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales, she has found success both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, 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 received her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. She made Broadway history as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has received. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won the first Emmy for her performance as a character in The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured character in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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