Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. The winner of an unprecedented six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway and on the opera stage and in television. She has a successful career performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. She won her 4th Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive honors across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre 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 of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show 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 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 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 her performance. The actress is a featured appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.