Other
Characters: Olivia Corey (pictured) 1969-1970
The
beautiful yet evasive Amanda Harris comes to Collinwood as
a pawn of Tim Shaw in his campaign against Reverend Gregory
Trask, an alluring young woman with a mysterious past. Soon
her world is destroyed with the revelation that she is a living
creation from the canvas of portrait artist Charles Delaware
Tate. However, the love shared between her and Quentin Collins
transcends time, as a hapless Amanda Harris desperately reaches
to build a life independent from her creator...
Donna
McKechnie was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 16th
1942.
Donna's
interest in the theatre began at an early age and she appeared
in numerous regional productions, including Annie Warbucks,
On Broadway, Annie Get Your Gun, Filmex Spring Night at Mann's
Chinese Theater, Get Happy, Cabaret,Wine Untouched, Potpourri,
The Imaginary Invalid, Company, The Education of Hyman Kaplan,
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, West Side
Story, The Norman Conquests, Music Music, A Horse Story, You
Never Know, I Do! I Do!, Misalliance, The Goodbye Girl and
Gypsy.
Her
small screen career began with a Maybelline commercial, followed
by her short stint on Dark Shadows, along with guest
roles on a number of primetime shows including Twirl, Pearl
Baily Show, The Scarecrow and Mrs King, Laugh In and Cheers,
along with recurring appearances on Hullabaloo and
Fame.
Donna
went behind the scenes for the big screen to assist with the
choreography in the film Bille in 1965. In 1976, she
gained her sole motion picture credit, as Rose in The Little
Prince.
In
addition to winning a Tony Award for the role of Cassie in
A Chorus Line, Donna has given many bows on Broadway
in How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying, Promises,
Promises, Company, Sondheim: A Musical Tribute, which
she also choreographed, and State Fair, for which
she received the 1996 Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer.
Donna has appeared in several London engagements including
Can-Can, Follies and No Way to Treat A Lady,
which she also choreographed. She was nominated for a Helen
Hayes Award as the eponymous lead in her national tour of
Sweet Charity, which was Bob Fosse's final production.
In
December 1996, Donna essayed her first opera role, guest starring
in Die Fledermaus for the San Francisco Opera.
In 2002 she was nominated for The Los Angeles Theater Alliance
League Ovation Award as Best Featured Actress in Mack and
Mabel.
Donna
recently produced a new cabaret show, My Musical Comedy
Life, to great acclaim, garnering a Mac Award nomination
for Best Female Singer and was awarded Outstanding Major Engagement
in the Backstage Bistro Awards. In 2002, Donna's acclaimed
autobiographical one-woman cabaret show Inside the Music
was released on CD.
Biography
written by Vera Marano
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