Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unmatched. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. As the winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies or on television. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record for most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced 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. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is a featured character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.