Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for most wins in an award-giving category by an actor, she also became the first person ever to receive awards in all four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater include 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 made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. 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 began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.






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