Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and her versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the 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. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in TV. As well as performing on stage, she has established a successful career which has a substantial recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress also appeared in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.