Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. She has been a six-time record recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Aside from setting a record in the contest for winning the most awards for acting, she became the first person to win the four categories of acting. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.