Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on TV. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became one of 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 vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. She also set the record of having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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