Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at Juilliard School, New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her 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 was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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