Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the president Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top performances. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. The actress made Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first to win honors in all four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). 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 television audiences as a dramatic actress. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her part in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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