Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and performer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which is a major performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class performances. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. As well as recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win honors 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) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere 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 made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.