Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on television. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald's theater credits also includes 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 of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received the fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.