ACTOR BIO

Donna Anita Quinn is an Irish actor and voice over artist. Her stage highlights include the roles of ‘Martin’, ‘Wafaa’ and ‘Nathan’ in the Dermot Bolger play Home, Boys, Home in the 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival. She also played the lead role of ‘Judith Noone’ in Jaki McCarrick’s Irish Premiere of Belfast Girls. 
Donna’s recent film credits include the ‘Biology Teacher’ in September Says, ‘Grace Ture’ in Sweetness in the Belly and ‘Paige Monaghan’ in Christmas at Castle Hart. Donna’s breakthrough TV role came as ‘Ama Chisenga’ on RTE’s Fair City. She went on to play ‘Lucy’ in RTE’s The South Westerlies, ‘Francis Frond’ in cBBC’s Nova Jones and the role of ‘Mom’ in Cartoon Saloon’s Silly Sundays. 
Donna trained in The Focus Theatre, BelCanto School of Voice and The Montfort School of Performing Arts. She is represented by Alex Cusack Management and Voice Bank. 

A BIT ABOUT ME…
Born in Dublin, I’m of Irish Caribbean heritage. Brought up in Cork from the age of three by Anita and Kurt Nikolaisen, I come from a beautifully diverse family. From an early age the stage called to me and my debut performance was a showcase for The Montforts at the Cork Cat Club. Proudly watched by my mother and brother in the audience. After graduating from UCC with a degree in business I moved to Dublin and worked in IT, which lead to me setting up my own business – Visual Aspects Web Design. Around that time I began training at Bel Canto School of Voice and attending The Focus Theatre Stanislavsky Studio. 

Early roles include Bloody Mary in The Pioneer Society’s South Pacific at The Helix and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing with The Dublin Shakespeare Society at Theatre@36. From this springboard I began working professionally on stage, TV and film. And I’ve never looked back :@)