Donna King | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 67–68) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
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| Children | Jimmy Napes, Jessica Napier |
Donna King (born 1957) is an American dancer andmusical theatre performer who appeared in Broadway musicals in the 1970s and 1980s and has lived and worked mostly in England since the 1980s.
She is also an actress and has appeared in theatre as well as on film and television.
Originally fromKansas City, King trained at the Miller Marley School of Dance inOverland Park, Kansas.[1] She worked briefly on a revue inLas Vegas before starting atStudio 54,New York City, on its opening night in 1977. She appeared in the Broadway musicalThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978), then inRoland Petit's 1981 revival ofCan-Can, before originating the part ofBombalurina at theWinter Garden Theatre on Broadway inAndrew Lloyd Webber'sCats,[2][3] which she played from 1982 to 1984. In September 1982, theNew York Magazine ran a feature on King, who was pictured as Bombalurina in a window display atBergdorf Goodman.[4] She played a Shark in the Mediterranean Tour of West Side Story. She was also a lead dancer in the filmGrease 2 (1982).[1]
In 1984, King marriedJohn Napier, a British theatre designer who had designed the set and costumes forCats, and they had two children, James (now the musicianJimmy Napes) and Jessica.[2] They were divorced in 1994.
In 1991, Donna King appeared in the lead role of May in a revival ofSam Shepard'sFool for Love at the Timber Street Studios, London.
King had a notable part inJilly Cooper'sThe Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997). In the opening scene, her tryst with the anti-hero, Lysander Hawkley, is interrupted by her husband, who chases Lysander out of the house naked with a crossbow.[5]
She now has a studio inCamden Town and teaches music, theatre, and film students.[2]
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