Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on the world of television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of 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. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. She also set the record for most awards won by one actor. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured appearance in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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