Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received the National Medal of Arts - the highest award given in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. Alongside her stage work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made 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 Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received an 4th Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.