Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and her versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The 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 unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on television. She has a successful career in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.