Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. Aside from setting a record to win the most awards for acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in 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 an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. She joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.