Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has a thriving profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for her performance in Carousel. After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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