Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as a singer and an actor. 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. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. 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 in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. Along with setting the record in the competition to win the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first to have won all four acting categories. 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 in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. In 2021, she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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