Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Alongside her stage work, she has many a career in recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win awards across all four categories. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe 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 and in 2000 she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her role on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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