Actress Audra McDonald has won the most Tony awards as a performer (six).

She has performed in musicals, operas, and dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class and Porgy and Bess.

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 In 2016 she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill for HBO in which McDonald portrayed jazz legend Billie Holiday.

 In 2016, McDonald was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

Audra played Madame de Garderobe in the 2017 film version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

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