

Recently he was seen in The Sentinel with Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Douglas as well as The Quiet with Edie Falco. In 2009, he starred opposite Virginia Madsen in The Haunting in Connecticut. In The Portrait of A Lady, he won the National Society of Film Critics' Award for best supporting actor. He has also acted with Parker in Saved!, Pipe Dream and The Portrait of A Lady.
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Careerĭonovan has appeared in fourteen episodes of the Showtime television series Weeds, which stars Mary-Louise Parker, for which he was nominated for a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by An Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He joined the off-off-Broadway Cucaracha Theater on Greenwich Street. In 1983, he and his wife, Vivian, moved to New York City, where he took odd jobs like installing drapery to support his family. He attended American Theater Arts, a combined conservatory and theater company in Los Angeles, where he appeared in the plays Richard's Cork Leg by Brendan Behan and Private Life of the Master Race by Bertold Brecht. He graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School and attended Pierce College for two years. He and his three siblings were raised Catholic. Donovan was born Martin Paul Smith in Reseda, California, to Roman Catholic middle-class parents, Gayne Paul Smith and Agnes Mary Regan.
