Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, 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. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys established a successful profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she also performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 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 was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.