Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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