Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on TV. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017 she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest to win the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic comedy The Gilded Age.






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