Donna Barrell (born Teresa Luisa Michelena, June 26, 1889 – April 5, 1941) was an American screenwriter and actress active primarily during the silent era.
Donna was born in Detroit, Michigan, to opera singers Fernando Michelena[1] and Catherine Maddock;[2] her father was from Venezuela, and her mother was from England.
[3] Her parents split when she was young, and her father had two daughters, actresses Vera Michelena and Beatriz Michelena, from his marriage to the soprano Francis Lenord (1867–1912).
[5] As a young woman, she developed an interest in acting, and she married fellow actor Walter Hitchcock; the two began working in the early motion picture industry on the East Coast before Hitchcock died of an illness in 1917.
She died in Los Angeles in 1941; she had no children with Hitchcock or her second husband, Joseph Barrell.