Acting

Donna Wilkes

Born 1959-11-11 · New York City, New York, USA

Donna Wilkes (born November 14, 1958) is an American film actress known for her roles in several films, most notably the starring role in 1984's Angel, which became a cult classic. She has also appeared in several television programs such as Father Murphy and the soap opera Days of our Lives. She appeared in the first season of the short-lived sitcom Hello, Larry. Twice, she played characters much younger than she was in real life. Her character in Hello Larry was 15 when Wilkes was actually 20 years old in real life, whereas Molly Stuart, her character in the movie Angel was supposed to be 15 years old as well, even though Wilkes was 25 years old at the time of filming.

Acting credits

Jaws 2 poster
6.0

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Jaws 2

1978

Angel poster
6.1

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.

Angel

1984

My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?! poster
4.9

NANCY MONROE’s mother DENISE just got married — and Nancy has a new stepbrother, VICTOR, a Goth guy who dresses in black, wears lots of sunscreen, apparently talks to his cat, and has the ability to cloud women’s minds. So Nancy is convinced that he’s a vampire — but is she a paranoid wingnut, or is she the only person who sees Victor’s true nature?

My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?!

2013

Fyre poster
4.8

After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution

Fyre

1979

Schizoid poster
5.2

When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.

Schizoid

1980

Buzz Cut poster
NR

New Zealand's first slasher movie! The Hash House Harriers ("a drinking club with a running problem") encounter a killer Bee Keeper in a crazy Kiwi horror-comedy that is part Animal House and part 80's slasher movie.

Buzz Cut

2021

Born to Be Sold poster
4.6

A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.

Born to Be Sold

1981

Grotesque poster
4.3

A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...

Grotesque

1988

Blood Song poster
4.9

A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.

Blood Song

1982

Almost Summer poster
5.3

In the last weeks of a Southern California high school year, Bobby DeVito recruits shy newcomer Darryl to run against his popular ex-girlfriend Christine for student body president, turning a simple election into a nasty campaign of revenge and dirty tricks.

Almost Summer

1978

Zombie Games poster
NR

When the pandemic strikes the world the President decides the only thing to do is hide in an underground shelter. So he holds the Zombie Games to see who will join him.

Zombie Games

2021

Hard Knocks poster
4.5

A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.

Hard Knocks

1979

The Courage and the Passion poster
9.0

The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."

The Courage and the Passion

1978

Halloween Monster Bash poster
NR

1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.

Halloween Monster Bash

1991

Masters of the Grind poster
NR

The shocking true story behind the most outrageous movies of all time and the directors who made them.

Masters of the Grind

2023

90210 Shark Attack poster
4.0

A group of entitled Beverly Hills oceanography students arrive at a mansion in Malibu, to study the local ocean waters. However, someone… or something, has other, more murderous intent, as the Students begin to disappear, one by one, murdered by some flesh-shredding entity, leaving wounds similar in nature to a shark attack. But how is that possible, when the nearest ocean is a half-mile away?

90210 Shark Attack

2015

Behind the camera