Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is unparalleled. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded the 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 was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017 she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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