Donna Kay Martell (born December 24, 1927) is an American former actress who starred in film and television during the Golden Age Era in the 1950s and 1960s.

[3] Martell began her film career in 1947 when she was cast in the Republic Pictures western Apache Rose, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

[4] In 1951, Columbia Pictures signed her to play the female lead opposite Gene Autry in The Hills of Utah.

The film is unusual for its time in both attempting to portray space travel in a "realistic" manner, and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; in the script Martell's character, Briteis (pronounced “bright-eyes”), is a colonel who has made the first orbital flight around the Earth four years earlier and outranks her fellow male astronaut, a major.

[8][9] Donna Martell appeared in a television episode of Hopalong Cassidy as a Mexican sister trying to save her wrongfully accused brother.