Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on TV. Alongside performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record for the most awards won by one actor. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.