{{Short description|Filipina film producer and actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Donna Villa | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Marian Patalinghug | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date|2017|01|17}} (aged 57)<!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = Manila, Philippines | other_names = | occupation = Film producer, actress | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Marian Patalinghug''', better known as '''Donna Villa''', was a Filipina film producer and actress.<ref name=remembering>{{cite news |last1=Policarpio |first1=Allan |title=Remembering Donna Villa |url=https://entertainment.inquirer.net/213001/remembering-donna-villa |access-date=11 August 2021 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=20 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
Villa began her career in the entertainment industry as an actress. One of her early roles was in the 1977 film ''Namangka sa Dalawang Ilog'', which starred Romeo Vasquez, Gloria Romero and Alma Moreno.<ref name=remembering/>
Originally from Lapu-Lapu City,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Serna |first1=Roger |title=Recognizing local celebs |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/204832/Local-News/Serna-Recognizing-local-celebs |access-date=11 August 2021 |work=Sunstar |date=18 July 2010}}</ref> Donna Villa was married to film director Carlo J. Caparas, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Donna Villa and Caparas were known as the "Golden Couple" and were credited with the "Massacre Era" of the Philippine film industry in the early 1990s. With Caparas, she produced the 1990s films ''The Vizconde Massacre'', ''The Myrna Diones Story (Lord, Have Mercy)'', and ''The Lilian Velez Story: Till Death Do Us Part''.<ref name="dies">{{cite news |title=Movie producer Donna Villa dies |url=https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/158662-movie-producer-donna-villa-dies-carlo-j-caparas/ |access-date=11 August 2021 |work=Rappler |date=17 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="abscbn">{{cite news |title=Donna Villa, producer and wife of Carlo J. Caparas, dies |url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/01/17/17/donna-villa-producer-and-wife-of-carlo-j-caparas-dies |access-date=11 August 2021 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=17 January 2017}}</ref> One of her last films was the 2017 feature ''Kamandag ng Droga'', which was influenced by President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.<ref name=remembering/>
Donna Villa died at the age of 57 on January 17, 2017, at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital in Manila.<ref name="abscbn" /> Initial reports stated that she died from cancer, although her exact cause of death was not disclosed by her family.<ref name=remembering/>
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