Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time 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. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. The year 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record as the most wins in a competitive area by an actor she became the first actor to win awards for all four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her part as a character in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. McDonald was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She appears as a special appearance on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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