Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the opera stage and in the world of television. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious places. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she became the first actor to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 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 with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an 4th Emmy award for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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