Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for Carousel. In the four following years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first to win the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program 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 a recurring part 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 produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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