Of Irish Caribbean heritage Donna trained at The Montfort School of Performing Arts in Cork and continued her training at The Focus Theatre  and Bel Canto School of Voice in Dublin.

Her stage highlights include ‘Tea Chests and Dreams’ at The Axis, ‘No Irish No Blacks No Dogs’ at The New Theatre, ‘Jane Eyre’ at The Gate, ‘Talking to Terrorists’ at The Samuel Beckett and ‘The Bacchae of Baghdad’ at The Abbey.

Recent film credits include Paige Monaghan in Hallmark’s ‘Christmas at Castle Hart’ (2021); Grace Ture in ‘Sweetness in the Belly’ (2020); and ‘Ali’ in award-winning short film ‘QED’ (2018). Donna appears as Lucy in Hulu’s ‘Conversations with Friends’ (2022); Frances Frond in CBBC’s ‘Nova Jones’ (2021) and Lucy in RTE’s ‘The South Westerlies’ (2021). Her breakthrough role came as Zambian refugee and nurse Ama Chisenga on RTE’s ‘Fair City’ (2013 – 2017).

As a voice over artist she has narrated audiobooks, documentaries for the BBC and Virgin Media and voiced numerous radio plays for RTE’s Drama on One. She has been the voice of Ulster Bank since 2018.