Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in television. As well as performing on stage, she has established a successful career which has a substantial recording and concert career. She frequently performs in top performances. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of leading actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category by an actor, she also became the first person ever to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside 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 the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.