Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top performances around the world. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows, including 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 Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.