Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. As the winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in the year 2015. She also received President 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 in addition to the opera stage and in television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has an active career as a recording and concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with 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 received five Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first actor to be awarded honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). 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 starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on 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 received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.