Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. In the four following years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 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 won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category by an actor, she also became the first to be awarded in the four acting categories. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.