Donna McKechnie

Donna McKechnie is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, the character of Cassie in the musical A Chorus Line. She earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this performance in 1976. She is also known for playing Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from 1969 to 1970.

16 November 1940

Born on the same birth day (16 November): Britta Steffen • Chi Coltrane • Colin Burgess (musician) • Dietrich Kraiss • Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse • Gigi Edgley • Girolamo Abos • Guillermo Lasso • Omar Mateen • Ronald Pognon • Takashi Nagayama • Tiberius • Waheed Alli, Baron Alli • Yuki Uchida

Born in the same month (November 1940): Arieh Warshel • Baby Washington • Dan Tieman • Davey Graham • Ediz Hun • Helma Sanders-Brahms • Karl Offmann • Kevin Phillips (political commentator) • Luis Tiant • Richard Cotton (geneticist) • Richard Marcinko • Roy Thomas • Terry Gilliam