Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has a thriving profession as a music and concert performer. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. In the subsequent four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first role as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received the first Emmy for her part in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's period film The Gilded Age.






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