Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. A record six-time recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Her career has been successful in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the four following years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017 she performed in her West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the competition to win the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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