Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. She has been a six-time record winner 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 dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway and on the stage of opera and on TV. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has an active career as a recording and concert artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. The year 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in a competitive area by an actor she was also the first to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.