Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the stage for opera as well as on TV. As well as performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in top performances. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win the award in all four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series 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 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The following year, McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She appears as a special appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.
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