Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and performer. Record-breaking six times recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. In addition to her theatre work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded honors across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre 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 was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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