Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. Her career has been successful in concert and recording and regularly performs at many of the top places around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. She also set the record for most awards won by a single actor. McDonald's credits in theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.