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Doug Savant is an American male actor and screenwriter. He was born in Burbank, California, in 1964. His professional career began in 1984. He works in the fields of television and film acting.
Savant is a native English speaker and writes in English. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles. He is married to Laura Leighton.
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Film & TV
Burbank, California, USA
Doug Savant (born June 21, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles on Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives.
Known for
- I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story — Doug Hutchinson2025
- The Company You Keep — Pastor Evan Earle2023
- The Cleaning Lady — Oliver Gordon2022
- Leverage: Redemption — AG James Hodgins2021
- Stars in the House — Self2020
- L.A.'s Finest — Richard Reeves2019
- The Rookie — Benjamin2018
- Dirty John — Martin Newsome2018
- 9-1-1 — Matthew Clark2018
- S.W.A.T. — Mark2017
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Key facts
- Born
- Douglas Peter Savant , ( 1964-06-21 ) June 21, 1964 (age 61) , Burbank, California , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Spouses
- Dawn Dunkin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1983 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) Laura Leighton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Burbank
- Spouse
- Laura Leighton
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Doug Savant 2009.jpg
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- Commons category
- Doug Savant
- date of birth
- 1964-06-21
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Douglas Peter Savant (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Matt Fielding in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–97), Tom Scavo in ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–12), and as Sgt. O'Neal in Godzilla (1998).
Early life
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