Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald played Naomi Bennett from season one to season four of Private Practice. She reprised her role in the series finale, In Which We Say Goodbye. She also appeared in the season five Grey's Anatomy episode Before and After. 
==Biography==
Audra was born in Germany.http://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Audra-McDonald.html She graduated from the Juilliard School for the Performing Arts in 1993.https://web.archive.org/web/20120718161936/http://juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2011-2012/1111/index.php Her first husband Peter Donovan also graduated from Juilliard, where they met.https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Never-Short-of-Breath-Taking-a-break-from-2748694.php Audra has won six Tony Awards in 11 years, making her the recipient of more Tony's than anyone else.https://web.archive.org/web/20150704091953/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/facts/ In 2009, she won Grammys in the Best Classical Album category and the Best Opera Recording category for her work in Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny.http://www.playbill.com/news/article/126077-In_the_Heights_Cast_Recording_Wins_Grammy_Hudson_and_LuPone-McDonald_Mahagonny_Also_Win
==Career==
===Filmography===
*Respect (2021)
*Hello Again (2017)
*Beauty and the Beast (2017)
*Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas (2016)
*Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016)
*Ricki and the Flash (2015)
*The Ordained (2013)
*Rampart (2011)
*She Got Problems (short) (2009)
*A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
*The Best Thief in the World (2004)
*Tea Time with Roy & Sylvia (short) (2003)
*It Runs in the Family (2003)
*Partners and Crime (2003)
*Wit (2001)
*The Last Debate (2000)
*Cradle Will Rock (1999)
*Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
*The Object of My Affection (1998)
*Seven Servants (1996)
===Television===
*The Gilded Age (2021)
*The Good Fight (2018-2021)
*The Bite (mini-series) (2021)
*Vampirina (2020)
*Central Park (2020)
*Heads Will Roll (2020)
*BoJack Horseman (2018-2019)
*A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House (2016)
*Doc McStuffins (2015)
*The Sound of Music Live! (2013)
*The Good Wife (2013)
*It Could Be Worse (2013)
*Sesame Street (2012-2013)
*Private Practice (2007-2013)
*Submissions Only (2010)
*Grey's Anatomy (2009)
*Great Performances (2007)
*Kidnapped (2006-2007)
*The Bedford Diaries (2006)
*Mister Sterling (2003)
*Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000)
*The Wonderful World of Disney (1999)
*Homicide: Life on the Street (1999)
==Notes and Trivia==
*Audra left Private Practice to be closer to her family. They live in New York, meaning Audra commuted between New York and Los Angeles, where the show was filmed.https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231936/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/147480-Audra-McDonald-Departing-ABCs-Private-Practice
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