Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She was the recipient of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious places. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. She won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first in the category of leading actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for most awards won by one actor. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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