Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway and on the opera stage and in the world of television. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious performances. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The year 2004, she took home her fourth 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 in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. Her credits in the theatre are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.

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