Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in 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 thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. She also set the record of most awards won by a single actor. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.