Jeffrey Donovan

Jeffrey Donovan is one of those guys who deserves way more mainstream recognition than he gets, and I say that as someone who got completely hooked on Burn Notice back in the day. Playing Michael Westen — a burned CIA spy improvising his way through Miami with nothing but a fake ID and a talent for lying — is a deceptively hard role to pull off, and Donovan made it look effortless for seven seasons. But what really gets me is the range he's shown beyond that: he played Robert F. Kennedy in J. Edgar, then turned around and played JFK in LBJ, which is just a wild Kennedy-brothers hat trick. Throw in a cold turn in Sicario and gritty work in Shot Caller, and you realize this UMass Amherst theater kid from a tiny Massachusetts coastal town quietly built one of the more interesting careers in American character acting.

Name (English)

Jeffrey Donovan

Name (Japanese)

ジェフリー・ドノヴァン

Reading

じぇふりー・どのゔぁん

Born

May 11, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor / film producer / stage actor

University

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Donovan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335608

Tags

• Massachusetts
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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