Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway in addition to the stage for opera as well as on TV. Alongside performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She took home her 4th Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she also became the first to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's 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. And in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.
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