Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and her versatility as an actor and singer. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in the world of television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role as a character in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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