Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received with the National Medal of Arts - the top prize for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in television. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. 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 an classical vocalist. A year after graduating she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal 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 London's West End in 2017, was her six award. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first person to receive the award across all four categories. McDonald is also featured 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); 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her role as a character 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 but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special character on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.