Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. In 2015, she won a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top award given in America for excellence in art and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an extraordinary gift for dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found in Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. She has a successful career performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by one actor. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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). McDonald was first 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. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.