Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on TV. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded 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. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she was also the first actor to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded the 4th Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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