Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald who has won 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 for excellence in this area. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on television. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she made her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record as the most awards in a competition area by an actor she became the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include 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 premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018 reprised the roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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