Tate Donovan

Tate Donovan strikes me as one of those wonderfully versatile performers who never demands the spotlight yet always earns it. To a generation he is the voice of Disney's Hercules, all earnest heroism; to another he is the morally tangled Tom Shayes of Damages or the long-suffering dad Jimmy Cooper on The O.C. That range is rare. What I respect most is his quiet move behind the camera as a television director, suggesting a craftsman who genuinely understands how stories are built. The USC-trained New Yorker embodies the steady, dependable professional whose presence elevates everything without ever overpowering it.

Name (English)

Tate Donovan

Name (Japanese)

テイト・ドノヴァン

Reading

ていと・どのゔぁん

Born

September 25, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / director / television actor / film actor / voice actor

High school

Tenafly High School

University

University of Southern California

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%20Donovan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302650

Tags

• New York
• actor
• director
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.