Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the opera stage and in TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musical family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded the award across all four categories. McDonald's credits in 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 on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. Her next appearance was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of 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 began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.