Jeffrey Thomas Donovan (born May 11, 1968 in Amesbury, Massachusetts) is an American actor best known for playing MacGyver-esque super spy Michael Westen on USA's Burn Notice. When he's not doing that, Clint Eastwood seems fond of him, casting him in Changeling as police Captain J.J. Jones and in J. Edgar as Robert F. Kennedy. Known for his rugged looks and his thick Massachusetts accent which he rarely masks. When he's not playing Michael on Burn Notice he tends to be cast as jerks, as in the Will Smith Rom Com Hitch.
Film roles:
- Sleepers as Addison (1996)
- Bait as Julio (2000)
- Hitch as Vance (2005)
- Changeling as Captain J.J. Jones (2008)
- J. Edgar as Robert F. Kennedy (2011)
- Sicario as Steve Forsing (2015)
- Extinction as Jack (2015)
- LBJ as John F. Kennedy (2016)
- Wonder Woman: Bloodlines as Steve Trevor (2019)
- Let Him Go as Bill Weboy (2020)
- Wrath of Man as Jackson Ainsley (2021)
- Surrounded (2023): Rancher Wheeler
Television Roles
- Law & Order as Jacob Reese / Eddie Nicodos, 2 episodes (1995, 2007)
- Detective Frank Cosgrove (2022-)
- As the World Turns as Dr. Tony Cook, 1 episode (1995)
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Newton Dell/Miles Dell, 1 episode (1995)
- Millennium (1996) as Bobby Webber, 1 episode (1997)
- The Pretender as Kyle, 3 episodes (1997-98)
- Spin City as Tom, 2 episodes (1999)
- The Beat as Brad Ulrich (2000)
- Witchblade as Daniel Germaine, 1 episode (2002)
- Touching Evil as Detective David Creegan (2004)
- CSI: Miami as Todd Kendrick, 1 episode (2005)
- Monk as Steve Wagner, 1 episode (2006)
- Crossing Jordan as William Ivers, 5 episodes (2007)
- Burn Notice as Michael Westen (2007-13)
- Fargo: Season Two as Dodd Gerhardt (2015)
