Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first person to receive awards across all four categories. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. 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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