Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of 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 -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway and on the stage of opera and on television. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is a featured character on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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