Jocelin Donahue

Jocelin Donahue is an American actress whose credits include horror films and independent features. She grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and earned a sociology degree from New York University. A supporting part in the Western horror movie The Burrowers (2008) came before she was cast as the lead of Ti West's The House of the Devil (2009), which brought her Best Actress at LA Screamfest in 2009. She followed it with leads in Shim Hyung-rae's The Last Godfather (2010) and in Live at the Foxes Den, an independent feature. Terrence Malick directed her in Knight of Cups, she had a role in The End of Love, and in Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) she played Barbara Hershey's character as a young woman. She also took a part in the horror anthology Holidays (2016), and later appeared in Doctor Sleep (2019) and The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024). Her commercial work includes national campaigns.