Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top honor for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement - from the president Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards 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 together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character on the network's 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 written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.