Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which includes a significant performance and recording career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.