Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the opera stage and in TV. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing many a career in recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. One year after graduation, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She won her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her debut Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's period film The Gilded Age.

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