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JEFFREY
DONOVAN

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From an investigative drama to a burned spy and the uneasy world of Sicario.

Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor known for Michael Westen in Burn Notice.

Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA

An investigator, a spy and a soldier

Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor from Amesbury, Massachusetts. Before becoming widely known for television, he studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and New York University and built experience on stage and screen.

A major early television role was Detective David Creegan in Touching Evil. In Burn Notice, Donovan went on to play Michael Westen, a spy cut off from his agency who uses his skills to help people while investigating why he was burned.

Donovan also directed the prequel Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, giving him a chance to revisit the series from behind the camera as well as return briefly as Westen.

His film work includes Clint Eastwood’s Changeling and Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, where he plays Steve Forsing. He returned as Forsing in Sicario: Day of the Soldado, carrying the character into a second border-set thriller.

The films below are those available on FLM.RED, not his complete filmography.

Selected work

2004

Touching Evil

Played Detective David Creegan in the crime drama.

2007

Burn Notice

Played the burned spy Michael Westen.

2011

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe

Directed the television prequel.

2015

Sicario

Played Steve Forsing in Denis Villeneuve’s thriller.

Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.

Films in FLM.RED

Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.

Sources & image notes

Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.