Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she also became the first actor to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) 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 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written 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., starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.