Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as an artist is unparalleled. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the opera stage and in the world of television. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record in the competition in which she won the most awards by an acting, she became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater 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 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's debut as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 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. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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