One of her early acts was the 1977 film Namangka sa Dalawang Ilog which starred Romeo Vasquez, Gloria Romero and Alma Moreno.
[1] Hailing from Lapu-Lapu City,[2] Donna Villa is the wife of film director Carlo J. Caparas with whom she had a son and a daughter.
Donna Villa and Caparas were collectively known as the "Golden Couple" and was credited for the "Massacre Era" of Philippine film industry in the early 1990s.
[3][4] One of her last films was the 2017 feature Kamandag ng Droga which was influenced from President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
[1] Donna Villa died at the age of 57 on January 17, 2017 at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital in Manila.