Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. The winner of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in television. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which has a substantial concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Also, she set the record of most awards won by one actor. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where 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. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in 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 in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.