Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she was awarded the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first time in the leading actress category for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition for winning the most awards for acting, she became the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald has also been 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) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.