Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway as well as the opera stage and in TV. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She received her 4th Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. She also set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received her 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 on television network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.