Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in TV. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first time in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive awards across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre includes 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 on 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 first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving her first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated in Three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.