Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. A record six-time recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway in addition to the stage of opera and on the world of television. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She received her fourth Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record to win the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald's credits in 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 in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was 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. She appeared on the show in 1999. 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's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.