Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record for having the most awards received by one actor. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.






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