Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on television. She is a renowned performer performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she received the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. Her credits in the theatre are 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 television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won the first Emmy for her performance in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.