Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. She has been a six-time record recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in TV. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class places. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting a record in the contest to win the most awards for acting, she became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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