Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at many of the top venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she was also the first actor to receive awards in the four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.