Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway and on the stage of opera and on television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. She won her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. She created Broadway history when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Aside from setting a record for winning the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win all four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in 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 was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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