Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from President Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in television. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in several of the most famous performances around the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record of most awards won by one actor. 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 her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received the first Emmy for her part in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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