Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor given in America for excellence in art and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in television. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she was also the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.