Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing an active career as a musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition for winning the most awards for actor, she was the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also 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 is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her performance in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.