Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from President Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive area by an actor she also became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked 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 in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.