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 an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. An enthralling singer who has an unmatched gift of emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor has a natural performing on Broadway in addition to the opera stage and in the world of television. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in 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. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record as the most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen 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 the role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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