Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway and on the opera stage and in the world of television. Alongside performing on stage, she has built a career that is a major concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor 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 3 before the age of thirty. She received the fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 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. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.