Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist because of her range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, winner of 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. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Along with setting the record for winning the most awards by an acting, she became the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.