Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. A record six-time winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in television. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest for winning the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role 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 show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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