Sona MacDonald (born May 11, 1961, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-American actress and singer.
Sona MacDonald attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Between classic stage roles in Berlin and Vienna she plays leading roles in musicals and appears in concerts.
Directed by Peter Zadek, with whom she often collaborated, she starred in plays at the Schiller Theater in Berlin and at the Volksbühne Berlin. She soon was named Germany's "most promising young actress" and appeared at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, Salzburg Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater des Westens Berlin, Residenztheater Munich, Berliner Philharmonie, Vienna Festival, Raimund Theater Vienna and in Los Angeles, Jerusalem, Zurich and Amsterdam.
She played leading roles in musicals like "Les Miserables", "A Chorus Line", "Cyrano", "My Fair Lady", "Kiss me, Kate", "Chicago" and appeared in concerts worldwide. She was often cast for parts in works of Kurt Weill like "The Threepenny Opera", "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" or "The Seven Deadly Sins".
Sona MacDonald received the prestigious O.E.Hasse Award and won the Nestroy Theatre Prize for her role in "Der Talisman" at the Josefstadt Theatre in October 2009.
Sona MacDonald's father was the pianist Robert MacLaurin MacDonald, who also was Professor and Artist-in-Residence at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, US.
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2022
as Erleuchtete Meisterin
2014
as Baronin von Suttner
2009
as Barbara Monowa
2005
as Sylvia Renner
2001
as Elisabeth Beck
2000
as Chefinspektorin Maria Ott
1998
as Gabriele Riemann
1998
as Vera Schneller
1998
as Renate Thelen
1998
as Maria Ott
1996
as Claire Bachmann
1995
as Susanne Heischreck
1994
as Marlene Merthin
1994
as Psychologin
1994
as Sabine Meyer
1994
as Cornelia Roeder
1993
as Selma Salomon
1992
1987
as Ria
1983
as das Bild
1983
as Katharina
1982
as Denise
1980
1978
as Brigitte Schweitzer
1977
as Vera Behling
1977
as Sonja Brinkmann
1977
as Lisa Walter
1974
as Anja Ruland
1974
as Lena Scholl
1974
as Frau Weber
1974
as Ingeborg Kolbe
1974
as Hanna Kelpe
1974
as Elvira Nolte
1974
as Ingrid Sasse
1970
as Sybille Bauer