Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, and performer. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor has a natural in Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on TV. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. 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 5th Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive area by an actor she became the first to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.