Jeffrey Donovan is an American television, film and stage actor. He plays the lead Michael Westen on the American cable television series, Burn Notice. Notable starring roles in film include: Hitch, Believe in Me, Changeling, and Come Early Morning. He portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar . Donovan was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts and raised, along with two brothers, by their mother. Of his childhood, Donovan recalled: At Amesbury High School, he was mentored by teacher Patty Hoyt. She aided him in starting a drama club and then found him a private scholarship,... enabling him "to participate in a summer program that helped pave the way for his acting career." He attended Bridgewater State University before transferring to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated with a BA in theater. He went on to earn his MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. Donovan has appeared in CSI: Miami, Spin City, Monk, Witchblade, The Pretender, Homicide: Life on the Street, and Law & Order. In the short-lived TV series Threshold, Donovan portrayed the antihero Dr. Sloan.
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