Jeffrey Donovan

Jeffrey Donovan stars on the hit series Burn Notice and also on the big screen, including in Clint Eastwood’s film Changeling with Angelina Jolie.

On Burn Notice Donovan plays Michael Westen, a spy who was burned, cast away, and now is trying to return to his prior spy career. Currently in its 3rd Season on the USA network, Burn Notice is the most popular program on cable and consistently beats the network competition.
After earning his MFA, Jeffrey Donovan made his film debut in Inside Out. His next film, Throwing Down, took the top jury prize at The Hamptons Film Festival. Donovan also played Jeffrey Patterson in Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. In recent years he has acted in motion pictures with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. In 2005 Jeffrey Donovan appeared in the romantic comedy Hitch with Will Smith and Kevin James where he played the foil as the jerky lawyer. The following year he starred opposite Ashley Judd as the romantic lead Cal in Come Early Morning. Also in 2006, he starred in the film Believe in Me, where he played the coach of a women’s basketball team from Middleton, Oklahoma. In Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood and released late 2008, Donovan played opposite Angelina Jolie as the condescending captain J.J. Jones who hid L.A. Police corruption and ignored female pleas during the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders in 1928.

Donovan has been involved in various types of community outreach. In the spring of 2009 he returned to his old high school in Amesbury where he took part in a career day mentorship program with other successful professionals and then presented the school with a $100,000 arts scholarship program. The first $10,000 award was given out to a senior in June. Donovan has also been active in supporting Life Rolls On (LRO), a foundation empowering people with spinal cord injuries. On October 4, 2009 he will serve as one of the chairmen for LRO’s annual fundraiser called Night by the Ocean at the Kodak Theater.