Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on TV. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.