Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald, who 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 to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony when she starred in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.