Donal Logue

Donal Francis Logue<ref name=tvguide /> (born February 27, 1966<ref name="almanac">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a Canadian-born film and television actor. He played the starring role of Sean Finnerty on the sitcom Grounded for Life (2001–2005), and Detective Harvey Bullock on the DC Comics adaptation Gotham (2014–2019). He is also known for playing flight nurse Chuck Martin on ER (2003–2005), Lee Toric on Sons of Anarchy (2012–2013), Horik on Vikings (2013–2014), and the recurring role of Lt. (later Captain) Declan Murphy on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2014–2015).

Logue's film work includes roles in Sneakers (1992), Gettysburg (1993), Little Women (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996), Blade (1998), The Patriot (2000), American Splendor (2003), Zodiac (2007), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). He won the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for his performance in The Tao of Steve (2000).

Early life and education

Donal Francis Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario<ref name="tvguide" /> to Irish parents from County Kerry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite tweet "Even people like me, w/4 grandparents and 2 parents from Ireland, born in Canada myself, get to vote. Because I'm American."</ref> His parents were Carmelite missionaries,<ref name="filmref">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the family moved from Ireland to Canada to Boston, Massachusetts and elsewhere before settling in Calexico, California in the state's Imperial Valley.<ref name="Imperial Valley Press">Template:Cite news</ref> There and in nearby El Centro, California,<ref name="Imperial Valley Press" /> Logue grew up with three sisters—Karina, Deirdre and Eileen<ref name=tvguide/>—and their mother taught at Calexico High School and Vincent Memorial Catholic High School.<ref name="Imperial Valley Press" /> Logue attended Central Union High School in El Centro, where he became interested in theater. With friend John Everly during what Logue called the "summer during our sophomore year", he created the theater group Imperial Valley Players to perform in the school's auditorium, mounting the theater of the absurd play Picnic on the Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal.<ref name="Imperial Valley Press" />

For part of his junior year of high school,<ref name="Imperial Valley Press"/> Logue attended the Jesuit school St Ignatius College in Enfield Town, London, England.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1983, while a high-school senior, Donal was elected president of the 37th session of the American Legion Boys Nation, representing California and becoming the first non-citizen elected Boys Nation president.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He went on to study history at Harvard University, graduating in 1988.<ref name="Imperial Valley Press"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the late 1980s, he worked as a road manager for such bands as Bullet LaVolta.<ref name="oregonian2013jun" />

Career

After a few appearances in made for TV films, Logue appeared in the 1992 film Sneakers, playing Dr. Gunter Janek. Of his career start, Logue recalled,

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In 1993, he portrayed Capt. Ellis Spear in Gettysburg, and a movie agent, Judd Bromell, on the Northern Exposure episode "Baby Blues", then later appeared as an FBI agent in The X-Files episode "Squeeze". Logue's character Jimmy The Cab Driver was a staple of MTV promos in the early 1990s. He also appeared in Blade and The Patriot, in 2000. He appeared in two of Edward Burns films: Purple Violets and The Groomsmen.

Logue's portrayal as the lead in The Tao of Steve won him a Special Grand Jury Prize for best actor at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, and was noticed by ER producer John Wells, who cast Logue in several episodes as Chuck Martin, a nurse Dr. Susan Lewis marries one weekend in Las Vegas on a whim, and later has a child with. Concurrent with the run on ER, Logue starred in the critically acclaimed comedy Grounded for Life. In December 2005, Logue had a pilot development deal for a new situation comedy on ABC Television, originally titled I Want to Rob Mick Jagger.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The pilot was picked up and debuted in the winter of 2006 under the name The Knights of Prosperity. The show disappeared from the ABC lineup in early March 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Logue in 2007

Logue also appeared in a supporting role in Just Like Heaven (2005). Logue had appeared as Phil Stubbs in the original pilot for the NBC show Ed, but dropped out to star in the sitcom Grounded for Life. The first two and a half seasons of Grounded for Life were telecast on the Fox network; thereafter, the show moved to The WB for the remainder of its run. In 2002 and 2003, Logue appeared on the VH1 I Love... instalments '80s, '70s, and '80s Strikes Back. In 2010, Logue appeared on House, M.D. as millionaire patient Curtis Harry.

Logue also appeared in NBC's The Dennis, in 2005, about a former child prodigy whose parents kick him out of the house and into the real world. It was not picked up, however.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Logue co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the film Ghost Rider, the David Fincher film Zodiac, and alongside Mark Wahlberg in the 20th Century Fox film Max Payne. In 2007, he had an uncredited role in the Monk season 6 episode "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night" as a grifter who Monk meets in a bar. In 2008, Logue appeared in the Jack Kerouac documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. Logue starred as Captain Kevin Tidwell in the NBC crime drama Life from 2008 to 2009. On May 4, 2009, NBC announced Life would not be returning for a third season.

Logue starred in FX series Terriers, which ran for 13 episodes from September to December 2010. After the show's cancellation, a frustrated Logue briefly left acting for truck-driving, according to his friend and fellow actor W. Earl Brown.<ref>Template:Cite tweet "Seriously. He and I did a biker pilot for HBO that was extraordinary, but for a myriad of reasons they didn't pick it up. Then he did TERRIERS – a great show...."</ref> Logue starred as the main character in Theory of a Deadman's music video for the song "Lowlife", off their 2011 release The Truth Is....

In late 2012, Logue joined the casts of Sons of Anarchy as renegade ex-U.S. Marshal Lee Toric who is out for revenge for the murder of his sister and Vikings as King Horik. In 2013, he joined the cast of BBC America's show Copper as a returning Union General turned Tammany Hall insider, General Brendan Donovan, and he returned to Sons of Anarchy and Vikings to reprise his roles from the previous seasons. Logue had roles in two 2013: CBGB with Alan Rickman and 9 Full Moons with Amy Seimetz and Bret Roberts.

Between March and May 2014, he appeared in six episodes of the NBC police procedural, crime, legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lieutenant Declan Murphy, a former undercover officer appointed as acting commander of the Special Victims Unit.<ref name="season 15">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 2014 to the show's conclusion in 2019, he portrayed Harvey Bullock in the police procedural series Gotham, based on the DC Comics Batman franchise.

In 2015, Logue appeared in Adam Massey's thriller film The Intruders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2021, Logue appeared in the FX series What We Do in the Shadows, portraying a fictionalized version of himself. He is at first mistaken for his Blade character of Quinn but explains that he had chosen to become a vampire after completing the movie Blade, as the vampire lifestyle appealed to him. This universe's rendition of Logue has become a respected member of the Supreme Worldwide Vampiric Council, is actively in touch with the cast members of Grounded for Life, and is an avid painter.

Personal life

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Logue with his children in Ireland in 2007

Logue travels back and forth to Killarney, Ireland, where his mother lives. He holds Canadian, Irish, and American citizenship.<ref>Donal Logue – Northern Stars Template:Webarchive</ref>

Logue has homes in Los Angeles and in Shady Cove, Oregon, where he cofounded Frison Logue Hardwood.<ref name="oregonian2013jun">Template:Cite news</ref> Logue regularly plays for the Los Angeles–based amateur soccer team Hollywood United.<ref name="Harvard"/>

Logue has a Class-A Commercial Drivers License and is licensed to drive tractor-trailers with double or triple trailers, tankers and hazardous materials. He has a hardwood company with one partner called Frison-Logue Hardwood, and a trucking company called Aisling Trucking with two partners based out of Central Point, Oregon, which the three founded in 2012.<ref name="oregonian2013jun"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Logue was formerly married<ref name="Harvard">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Better source needed</ref> or in a long-term committed relationship with Kasey Walker,<ref name=tvguide>Template:Cite magazine</ref> also known as Kasey Smith.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They have a son named Finn,<ref name=yahoo>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=filmref /> and a transgender daughter, Jade.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On June 27, 2017, Logue posted a tweet saying Jade had gone missing; he later deleted it<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref><ref name="dailynews">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and launched a wider public appeal for help after contacting police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.<ref name=dailynews /><ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By July 8, over a week later, Jade had been found in North Carolina and was returned home safely.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Medusa: Dare to be Truthful	Shane Pencil
1992	Sneakers	Dr. Gunter Janek
1993	Gettysburg	Capt. Ellis Spear
1994	Disclosure	Chance Geer
	Little Women	Jacob Mayer
1995	Baja	Alex
	Miami Rhapsody	Derek
	3 Ninjas Knuckle Up	Jimmy
1996	Winterlude	Chris Hampson	Short film
	The Grave	Cletus
	Eye for an Eye	Tony
	Diabolique	Video Photographer #1
	Dear God	Webster
	Jerry Maguire	Rick, Junior Agent
1997	The Size of Watermelons	Gnome
	Metro	Earl
	Glam	Tom Stone
	Men with Guns	Goldman	Also co-executive producer
	First Love, Last Rites	Red
1998	Blade	Quinn
	A Bright Shining Lie	Steven Burnett
	The Thin Red Line	Marl	Uncredited
1999	Runaway Bride	Father Brian Norris
	The Big Tease	Eamonn
2000	The Tao of Steve	Dex
	The Million Dollar Hotel	Charley Best
	Reindeer Games	Pug
	Steal This Movie	Stew Albert
	Takedown	Alex Lowe	AKA Track Down
	The Opportunists	Pat Duffy
	The Patriot	Dan Scott
2001	The Château	Sonny
2002	Comic Book Villains	Raymond McGillicudy	Also co-producer
2003	Confidence	Officer Lloyd Whitworth
	American Splendor	Stage Actor Harvey
	Two Days	Ray O'Connor
2005	Tennis, Anyone...?	Danny Macklin	Also director, producer, and writer
	Just Like Heaven	Jack Houriskey
2006	Jack's Law	Buzz	Uncredited
	The Groomsmen	Jimbo
	The Reef	Troy (voice)	English language dub
	Citizen Duane	Uncle Bingo
	Almost Heaven	Mark Brady
	The Ex	Don Wollebin
2007	The Good Life	Daryll
	Ghost Rider	Mack
	Zodiac	Ken Narlow
	Purple Violets	Chazz Coleman
2008	No Place Like Home	Uncle Eddie	Short film
	Max Payne	Alex Balder
2009	The Lodger	Joe Bunting
2010	Charlie St. Cloud	Tink Weatherbee
2011	Shark Night 3D	Sheriff Greg Sabin
	Oliver Sherman	Franklin Page
2012	The Reef 2: High Tide	Troy / Thornton (voices)	English language dub
	Kill for Me	Garret Jones
	Silent Night	Santa Jim Epstein
2013	CBGB	Merv Ferguson
2015	The Intruders	Jerry Halshford
2018	The Cloverfield Paradox	Mark Stambler
2021	Sometime Other Than Now	Sam
	All My Puny Sorrows	Jake Von Riesen
	Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City	Chief Brian Irons
2023	Door Mouse	Eddie
2024	The Island Between Tides	Dad

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	The Commish	Ryan Gibson	Episode: "Video Vigilante"
1993	Almost Home	Tommy Tom	Episode: "Hot Ticket"
	The X-Files	Agent Tom Colton	Episode: "Squeeze"
	Northern Exposure	Judd Bromell	Episode: "Baby Blues"
	And the Band Played On	Bobbi Campbell	Television film
1995	Medicine Ball	Dr. Danny Macklin	Recurring role
1996	Public Morals	Ken Schuler
1998	Felicity	Eddie	Episode: "Friends"
1999	The Practice	Dickie Flood	5 episodes
2001–2005	Grounded for Life	Sean Finnerty	Main role
2003–2005	ER	Chuck Martin	Recurring role
2007	The Knights of Prosperity	Eugene Gurkin
	Monk	Gully	Episode: "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night"
2008–2009	Life	Captain Kevin Tidwell	11 episodes
2010	Terriers	Hank Dolworth	13 episodes
2011	House	Cyrus Harry	Episode: "Changes"
2012	Royal Pains	Ernie McGillicuddy	2 episodes
2012–2013	Sons of Anarchy	Lee Toric	7 episodes
2013	Copper	General Brendan Donovan	12 episodes
2013–2014	Vikings	King Horik	12 episodes
2014–2015 & 2022	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lt./Capt. Declan Murphy	Recurring, seasons 15–17 & 23
2014–2019	Gotham	Harvey Bullock	Main role
2019	Stumptown	Private Detective Artie Banks	2 episodes
2020	The Unicorn	Denny	Episode: "The Client"
	Dummy	Dan Harmon	10 episodes
2021	Departure	Sheriff McCullogh	6 episodes
	What We Do in the Shadows	Donal Logue	2 episodes
2022–2023	The Equalizer	Colton Fisk
2023	Sisters	Jimmy
2025	Duster	Sergeant Groomes	Recurring role
	Murdoch Mysteries	Detective Ronald Perle	"The Men Who Sold the World"

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Work	Result
Ashland Independent Film Festival	2005	Best Actor	Tennis, Anyone...?	Template:Won
Canadian Screen Award	2013	Best Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town	Template:Nom
Sundance Film Festival	2000	Special Jury Prize (for Outstanding Performance)	The Tao of Steve	Template:Won

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