Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. The winner of an incredible six 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 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the opera stage and in TV. Her career has been successful performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition in which she won the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.