Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in TV. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. She made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Aside from setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.