She was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015 and received a Medal of Arts (America's highest honor for Arts achievement) from Barack Obama in that same year. She also holds five Drama Desk Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards, four NAACP Image Award nominations, an Ovation Award, a Theatre World Award, and a 2015 Rockefeller Award for Creativity. In 2017 Variety Magazine included her in their Power of Women feature alongside Chelsea Clinton, Blake Lively, and Gayle King. She has also received an honorary doctorate from Yale University.
Personal Life
Audra married Peter Donovan in September of 2000 and gave birth to one daughter, Zoe Madeline Donovan. After divorcing Donovan in 2009, she married Will Swenson on October 6, 2012. On October 19, 2016, they gave birth to a daughter, Sally James McDonald-Swenson. Her husband Will Swenson is also a talented actor and musician, co-starring with Audra in August 2015's A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The family currently lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York with their two dogs, Butler and Georgia.
Her active Twitter has more than 204,000 followers and her Facebook has over 80,000. Her Instagram where she routinely posts family photos and advocacy images has over 101,000 followers.
Audra's official biography states that she is “passionate advocate for equal rights, LGBTQ causes, and underpriveleged youth.” She joined the Covenant House International Board of Directors in 2014 which oversees programs for homeless youth in 27 civities across six countries. She participated in marriage equality and anti-bullying campaigns such as Freedom to Marry, NOH8, and PFLAG NYC. In 2012 she received the PFLAG National's Straight for Equality award with her husband.
Audra's official website and biography states that “of all of her many roles, her favorites are the ones performed offstage: passioante advocate for equal rights and homeless youth, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother to her children.”
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audra_McDonald
https://www.instagram.com/audramcdonald/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/audraequalitymc?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/AudraMcDonald/
http://audramcdonald.net/
Return to the previous page| Birth Date: | 3 Jul, 1970 |
| Age: | 49 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Berlin |
| Education: | Juilliard School |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American singer and actress |
| Spouse: | Will Swenson [M. 2012] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |
