Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. First actor recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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