Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. She made Broadway history as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by one actor. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic actor on television was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her role as a character in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in the three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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