Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, as well as an actor. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Aside from setting a record in the competition for winning the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.