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American actress and singer Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is primarily recognized for her performances on Broadway. She has achieved six Tony Awards, the highest number of wins by any performer, and is distinguished as the sole individual to have won in all four acting categories. Her repertoire includes roles in musicals, operas, and dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, and Porgy and Bess.

As a classical soprano, she has appeared in staged operas with Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Opera while also collaborating with symphony orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic for concert performances. In 2008, her album featuring Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with Los Angeles Opera received Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. McDonald shares a strong collaborative bond with composer Michael John LaChiusa who has created several works specifically for her including the Broadway musical Marie Christine as well as the opera Send (who are you? i love you) and The Seven Deadly Sins: A Song Cycle. With her full lyric soprano voice, she actively performs concerts across various genres from classical music to musical theater along with jazz and popular songs throughout the United States. In 2016, President Barack Obama honored her with the National Medal of Arts. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017. On television, McDonald played Dr. Naomi Bennett as part of Shonda Rhimes's ABC drama Private Practice from 2007 to 2011. Additionally, she portrayed Liz Lawrence during Season 4 of The Good Wife—a role she reprised in its spinoff series The Good Fight. In 2013 she took on Mother Superior’s character in The Sound of Music Live! alongside Carrie Underwood portraying Maria. She earned two nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: once for Susie Monahan in Wit opposite Emma Thompson in 2001; again for Ruth Younger’s portrayal in A Raisin in the Sun during 2008. In addition to that nomination track record within limited series categories she was nominated again at Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress due to Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill presented by HBO where McDonald depicted jazz icon Billie Holiday while also receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination related to this role too—ultimately winning an Emmy Award back in 2015 for hosting Live from Lincoln Center.

In film adaptations she is recognized mainly through her depiction of Maureen alongside Meryl Streep’s character within Ricki and the Flash (2015) plus Madame de Garderobe featured prominently within Disney’s Beauty & The Beast released in 2017 . Throughout her career journey thus far ,she has been nominated five times concerning NAACP Image Awards based upon contributions made towards both television shows & movies.