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American actor (born 1957)

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Hacking
  • Keeper
  • Drug education and the management of drug-related incidents
  • Dragon's Breath

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Film & TV

Acting · Reseda, California, USA

Martin Donovan (born August 19, 1957) is an American stage and film actor. He has had a long collaboration with the director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1993), Amateur (1994), and The Book of Life (1998) (in which he played Jesus). He is best known as Peter Scottson, the DEA agent on Showtime's Weeds. He…

Known for

  • The Apprentice — Fred Trump2024
  • Earth Abides — Milton2024
  • Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Charles Graff2024
  • BlackBerry — Rick Brock2023
  • Sealed with a List — Silas Redmond2023
  • Lioness — Errol Meade2023
  • Archive 81 — Virgil Davenport2022
  • Crisis — Lawrence Morgan2021
  • Redemption Day — Tom Fitzgerald2021
  • Firefly Lane — Wilson King2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1946-05-10
classic pop and rockcontemporary folkfolkfolk popfolk rockfolk-rock

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
9
Total plays
11

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Key facts

Born
Martin Paul Smith , ( 1957-08-19 ) August 19, 1957 (age 68) , Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1982–present
Spouse
Vivian Lanko ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Martin Donovan (born Martin Paul Smith; August 19, 1957) is an American actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), Flirt (1995), and The Book of Life (1998), starring as Jesus Christ in the latter. Donovan played Peter Scottson on Showtime's cable series Weeds. He made his writing/directorial debut with the film Collaborator (2011). Donovan played Detective Hap Eckhart in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Insomnia (2002) and the protagonist's CIA handler, Fay, in Nolan's science-fiction thriller Tenet (2020).

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Martin Donovan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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