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.

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


 * 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.