Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this 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 first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth 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 is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is a featured character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.