Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. 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. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. An enthralling singer who has an extraordinary gift for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor can be found on Broadway as well as the stage for opera as well as on television. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical film The Gilded Age.