Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talent as an actress and a performer. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. In addition to performing on stage, she has built a career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She regularly performs at world-class venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. Along with making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her 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) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her performance in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She appears as a special guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.