Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at Juilliard School, New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has won. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. Her next appearance was as a recurring 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 first Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic drama The Gilded Age.