Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility as an actor and singer. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on the world of television. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she also made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of 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 with Twelfth Nacht (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.