Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given the National Medal of Arts - the top prize given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in TV. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the competition in which she won the most awards by an actor, she was the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was 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) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on 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 critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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