Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Not only did she set records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category by an actor, she became the first actor to receive awards in all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. Following her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by 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 law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.