Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 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 highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on television. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing been a busy musician and recording artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the leading actress category for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014 the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald has also appeared 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 of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. In 2021, she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is a featured guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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