Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. A record six-time winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. 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 which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald's credits in 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. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. 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 television networks was in 2003, in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is a featured character on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.