Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald was born on Jul 03, 1970 in Germany. Audra McDonald's big-screen debut came with Seven Servants directed by Stefan Jonas in 1996. Audra McDonald is known for The Good Fight directed by Brooke Kennedy, Christine Baranski stars as Diane Lockhart and Sarah Steele as Marissa Gold. Audra McDonald has got 5 awards and 28 nominations so far. The most recent award Audra McDonald achieved is Casting Society of America, USA. The upcoming new movie Audra McDonald plays is Rustin which will be released on Dec 31, 2023.

Audra McDonald was born on July 3, 1970 in Berlin, Germany as Audra Ann McDonald. She's an actress and singer, best known for her many roles on Broadway. Her mother was a university administrator and her father was a high school principal stationed in West Berlin with the U.S. Army. She has a younger sister and grew up in Fresno, California. She graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and went on to study classical singing at Julliard, from which she graduated in 1993. A year later, she won her first Tony Award for her role in Carousel. In 1998, she released her first solo album Way Back to Paradise. She was nominated for her first Emmy Award in 2001 for her role in Wit (2001). In 2006, she debuted as an opera singer in a production of a one-act opera La Voix humaine at the Houston Grand Opera. By 2014, she had won 6 Tonys, becoming the first person to win the award in all 4 acting categories. She planned to make her West End debut in 2016 but postponed it in order to go on maternity leave, eventually debuting at the Wyndham's Theater in the West End in June 2017. She has made many TV and movie appearances, most notably in 4 seasons of Private Practice (2007) & in Disney's remake of Beauty and the Beast (2017). She also performs at concerts throughout the U.S. She was married to Peter Donovan from 2000 to 2009, they have a daughter, Zoe Madeline. Since 2012 she's been married to Will Swenson, they have a daughter, Sally James.