Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Along with setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category by an actor, she became the first actor to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald's credits in theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.