Donal Logue

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Biography

Donal Logue's versatility and talent makes him one of the most well respected and beloved actors today. Born in Ottawa, Canada, Logue moved all over the United States, from the Boston area as an infant to various towns on the Mexican border. He returned to Boston to attend Harvard University, where he majored in Intellectual History and discovered his love for the performing arts. While in college, he appeared in over thirty plays, worked for two summers in the American Repertory Theatre's Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Stock Company, and spent a short time doing theatre in England. After graduating, Logue joined the Cornerstone Theatre Company which developed community theatre in rural parts of the United States. From then on Logue dedicated himself to pursuing his passion for acting. In his 20 plus years in the industry, Logue has starred in films such as, The Tao of Steve, the story of a larger-than-life, philosophizing lothario, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and won him a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance. His other film credits include Sneakers, Gettysburg, Blade, Runaway Bride, Reindeer Games, The Million Dollar Hotel, Comic Book Villains with Michael Rapaport, Confidence, Just Like Heaven, and The Groomsmen with Ed Burns. Recently, Donal co-starred in Max Payne with Mark Wahlberg, as well as Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Ephron. He also appeared in Zodiac, directed by David Fincher, based on the Robert Graysmith books about the notorious Zodiac serial killer. Following the US release of Zodiac, he co-starred in Mark Steven Johnson's Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. Logue made his directorial debut with the independent film Tennis, Anyone?, which appeared at the US Comedy Arts Festival. He wrote, starred, and directed the film about two Hollywood has-beens who try and find meaning in their lives through a series of celebrity tennis tournaments. In television, Logue joined the cast of the NBC series "LIFE" about a former police officer who returns to the force after having been wrongly imprisoned for years. In 2007, he headlined the critically lauded ABC comedy "The Knights of Prosperity" in which a group of blue collar guys band together to plan a heist of Mick Jagger's New York City apartment. Prior to "The Knights of Prosperity" Logue starred in the Carsey-Warner produced show, "Grounded for Life" which aired for five seasons. He was also featured in a recurring role on "ER" as Sherry Stringfield's love interest. In 2010, Logue finished a critically acclaimed season on "Terriers," a television series created by Ted Griffin and Shawn Ryan for FX. He begins production on the Marc Cherry pilot "Hallelujah" for ABC in March of 2011. Logue lives in Los Angeles and has two children.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack·producer
  • Country
  • Canada
  • Nationality
  • Canadian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 27 February 1966
  • Place of birth
  • Ottawa
  • Education
  • St Ignatius' College·Harvard University·Central Union High School
  • Member of
  • Hollywood United F.C.

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TV

Books

Trivia

After losing four friends to alcohol abuse, Donal swore off in 1991 and has remained sober ever since.

Acted as a roadie for the rock group The Lemonheads in the 1980s and then worked with a traveling theater group.

Studied history at Harvard.

Was originally cast as Phil Stubbs on "Ed" .

His father Michael J. Logue taught as a Carmelite Catholic Missionary in Catholic Mission Schools in Nigeria, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth. They married and then moved to England.

Has three sisters, Eileen Logue Sciarretta, an education consultant, his twin Deirdre Logue , and Karina Logue , and one brother, Michael Logue.

(April 2, 2004) Is now an uncle.

Is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Is good friends with actor Stephen Dorff.

Is of Irish ancestry.

Son Finn was born in 1999 and daughter Jade in 2001.

Attended Central Union High School in El Centro, California.

Did short comedy skits on MTV as "Jimmy the cab driver", in the 90s.

(July 2017) Filed a missing person report with the New York City Police Department when his daughter Jade was missing for a week and was last seen leaving home on the way to Barclays Center in Brooklyn New York.

(July 2017) His daughter Jade was found in North Carolina.

Quotes

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid. . . but stay focused.

(About "Grounded for life"): Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the,creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it,from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch,it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more,brutally honest than any other.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff,Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance,talking about how bad the movies were.

(2000, on quitting drinking in 1991) I moved to L. A. and was just a fuck,up. [Leeching] off friends. Getting drunk every day. Pushing too hard.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor. .

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