Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as a singer and an actor. Record-breaking six times winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead 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. It's identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first actor to be awarded honors across all four categories. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut 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, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got an fourth Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.