Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is second to none. 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 recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor has a natural on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on TV. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018as the season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She appears as a special guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.