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| Donna Cooper | |
| Aliases: | Nurse Donna Cooper |
| Continuity: | Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Notability: | Minor character |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Springwood, Ohio |
| Associations: | Katja Institute |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Actor: | Mimi Meyer-Craven |
Donna Cooper is a fictional nurse and a minor character featured in the 1984 Wes Craven horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. She was played by actress Mimi Meyer-Craven.
Biography[]
Donna Cooper was a nurse who worked for Doctor King at the Katja Institute in Springwood, Ohio. In the early 1980s, she helped to administer care to a patient named Nancy Thompson - a fifteen-year-old girl, who had manifested a recent sleep disorder. Donna hooked Nancy up to an EEG machine so Doctor King could study her vital signs during REM sleep. When Nancy began suffering a violent outburst as a result of a nightmare, Nurse Cooper and Doctor King rushed into the room to aid her.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Donna Cooper was created by director and screenwriter Wes Craven.
- In the film, the character is credited only as Nurse. Her real name is revealed under close inspection of her name tag.
- At the time of filming, actress Mimi Meyer-Craven was the wife of director Wes Craven.
- Mimi Meyer-Craven also played a character named Nurse Cooper in Craven's 1985 film Chiller. It is possible that these may both be the same character, alluding to the notion that A Nightmare on Elm Street and Chiller take place within the same continuity as each other.