Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. First actor awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the 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 & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. She joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.






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