Private Practice Star Audra McDonald Engaged to Will Swenson!

Celebrity News January 3, 2012 AT 7:54PM
Private Practice Star Audra McDonald Engaged to Will Swenson! Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images

Audra McDonald is giving marriage another shot!

The 41-year-old Private Practice star and four-time Tony Award winner is engaged to Broadway star Will Swenson, Us Weekly can confirm.

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"Thanks for all of the sweet congrats on our engagement," McDonald tweeted Tuesday. "We're super happy and excited."

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This will be second marriage for McDonald, who divorced bassist Peter Donovan in 2009 after nine years of marriage; she and Donovan have a daughter, Zoe Madeline, 10. It will also be the second for Swenson, 38, who has two sons -- Bridger and Sawyer -- with ex-wife Amy Westerby.

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The couple met in 2007 while costarring in Broadway's 110 in the Shade. They began dating in 2010.

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  • January 04, 2012 - 10:44am Margaret Hooper

    she has spoken extremely highly of her time in that show, her father was actually killed in a plane crash just before it opened & she has said that performing in 110 in the Shade saved her as she was grieving for her father.

  • January 04, 2012 - 4:43am Brandis Davidson

    Um. Thanks?

  • January 03, 2012 - 11:30pm Margaret Hooper

    they actually met in 2007 doing 110 in the Shade, but didn't start officially dating until 2010

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