Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. In 2015, she won a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the top honor for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she became the first person ever to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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