Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. A record six-time recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on the world of television. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first actor to be awarded the award across all four categories. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.