Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top award in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in TV. Apart from her theater performances, she also has been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part as a character in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She was a part of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.