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By: Jul. 03, 2016
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Happy Birthday Audra McDonald!! Today is six-time Tony Award winner's birthday, and to celebrate her special day BroadwayWorld has decided to round up some of our favorite Audra McDonald videos!

McDonald is the winner of six Tony Awards for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, Ragtime, Master Class, and Carousel. Additional credits include 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination), Henry IV, Marie Christine (Tony nomination), and The Secret Garden. Opera: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (L.A. Opera), and La voix humaine and Send (Houston Grand Opera). Film: Ricki and the Flash, Rampart, She Got Problems, The Best Thief in the World, It Runs in the Family, Cradle Will Rock, The Object of My Affection, and Seven Servants. Television: Emmy Award for hosting "Live From Lincoln Center," HBO's "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" (Mother Abbess), "The Good Wife," "Private Practice" (Dr. Naomi Bennett), "A Raisin in the Sun" (Emmy nomination), "Kidnapped," "The Bedford Diaries," "Mister Sterling," "Wit" (Emmy nomination), "Law & Order: SVU," "Annie," and "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years." A two-time Grammy Award winner, she has released five solo albums on Nonesuch Records and maintains a major concert career. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, which oversees programs for homeless youth in 27 cities in six countries.


Audra joins Lin-Manuel Miranda and #Ham4Ham to sing "Say No To This" as Billie Holiday


Audra joins James Corden, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krakowski in a special Broadway edition of Carpool Karaoke


Audra performs "Summertime" from PORGY AND BESS on The Rosie Show


Audra performs "Crazy He Calls Me" as Billie Holiday on Charlie Rose


Audra performs with the company of SHUFFLE ALONG at the 70th Annual Tony Awards


Audra sings Yahoo Answers on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon


Audra and Brian Stokes Mitchell perform "Wheels of a Dream" from RAGTIME


Audra sings "Rainbow High" from EVITA


Audra performs "Maybe This Time" from CABARET


Audra closes out the 2013 Tony Awards with Neil Patrick Harris







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