Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is second to none. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. As the winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A stunning singer, with an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a 4th Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She appears as a special guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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