Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor given in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first time in the leading actress category for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record for most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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