Martin Donovan is an American film, stage and television actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of Hartley's films, such as Trust , Surviving Desire , Simple Men , Flirt , Amateur , and The Book of Life . Donovan plays Peter Scottson, the DEA agent on Showtime's cable series Weeds. He made his writing/directorial debut in 2011 with the film Collaborator. Donovan was born Martin Smith in Reseda, California to an Irish American middle class family. He and his three siblings were raised Catholic. He graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School and... attended Pierce College for two years. 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. In 1983, he and his wife moved to New York City, where he took odd jobs like installing drapery to support his family. He joined the Cucaracha Theater on Greenwich Street.
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