Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in television. In addition to her theatre work, she has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training at the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with 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 won the first Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018as the an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.