Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Record-breaking six times recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in television. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. She took home her fourth Tony by starring 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 first in the leading actress category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in which she won the most awards for actor, she was the first person to win all four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. 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. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.