Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside 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 Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks began in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.