Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway and on the opera stage and in television. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that is a major performance and recording career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. One year after graduation McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She won the fourth Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. She made Broadway history as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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