Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of 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 highest honor in America for excellence in this area. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway and on the opera stage and in TV. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she won her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of lead actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role 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 the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has won. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.