Donal Logue Biography

Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian-Irish actor well known for his role as Sean Finnerty in the television sitcom Grounded for Life (2001-2005). His other notable roles include starring in the film The Tao of Steve and the detective series Terriers.

Personal life

Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Irish parents from County Kerry. His father, Michael J. Logue, was once a Carmelite Catholic missionary in Africa, where he met Donal's mother, Elizabeth. They eventually got married and then moved to England. They had four children. Logue has three sisters: Karina, an actress; twin sister Deirdre (who is not in show business); and Eileen, an education consultant. His father is the president of Aisling Industries, which makes microchips for cellphone companies.

Logue lived most of his childhood and teen years in El Centro, California, where he attended Central Union High School, although for his junior year, he attended St Ignatius' College in Enfield, Middlesex, England. While in High School, Donal was the California State Champion in Impromptu Speaking and in 1983 was elected President of the American Legion Boys Nation. His mother was a teacher at Calexico High School in Calexico, California during the 1980s and 1990s. After high school, Logue studied History at Harvard University. While there, he was a member of the Signet Society. He travels back and forth to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, where his mother lives, and holds both Irish and Canadian citizenship.

Logue has homes in Los Angeles and Oregon. When not acting, Logue is heavily involved in soccer, and regularly plays for the Los Angeles-based amateur team Hollywood United.

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 trucking company called Aisling Trucking with two partners based out of Central Point, Oregon, which the three founded in 2012.

Career

Aside from a few TV movies, Logue's first film appearance was playing Dr. Gunter Janek in the 1992 film Sneakers. In 1993, he portrayed Capt. Ellis Spears, in Gettysburg. In 1994, he guest starred on an episode of Northern Exposure playing a movie script agent, Judd Bromell, in the episode "Baby Blues". Soon afterwards, he appeared as a rival FBI agent to Fox Mulder in The X-Files episode "Squeeze". Logue's character Jimmy The Cab Driver was a staple of MTV promos in the early '90s. With more than 40 other movies to his credit, some of his more significant appearances include the 1998 film Blade (as the vampire Quinn), and The Patriot with Mel Gibson, in 2000. He appeared in two of Edward Burns films: Purple Violets and The Groomsmen. In Purple Violets he plays a British chef.

Logue's career advanced to the next level when he was cast as the overweight-but-nevertheless-charismatic central character in The Tao of Steve. Logue's portrayal of the lead in that film, for which he won a Special Grand Jury Prize for best actor at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, 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 Carsey-Werner produced, critically acclaimed comedy, Grounded for Life, which still airs in a number of countries worldwide, making him one of the very few actors to have had a run on two different series on different networks simultaneously. Then, in December 2005, Logue had what turned out to be a somewhat dubious association with a pilot development deal for a new situation comedy on ABC television, originally titled I Want to Rob Mick Jagger. 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.

Logue also appeared as Mark Ruffalo's character's psychiatrist best friend in Just Like Heaven (2005). Logue had appeared as Phil Stubbs in the original pilot for the NBC show Ed but was offered Grounded for Life, and made the choice to drop out. The first two-and-a-half seasons were telecast on the Fox network, though thereafter the show moved to The WB for the remainder of its run. In 2002 and 2003, Logue appeared on the VH1 "I Love. . ." series installments '80s, '70s, and '80s Strikes Back.

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, however, picked up. Logue co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the movie Ghost Rider, the David Fincher film Zodiac, and alongside Mark Wahlberg in the 20th Century Fox Film Max Payne.

Logue starred as Captain Kevin Tidwell in the NBC crime drama Life from 2008-2009. On May 4, 2009, NBC announced Life would not be returning for a third season.

Logue starred in FX series Terriers which was cancelled due to low ratings, even with great reviews from the press such as the Times.

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. He is also in the cast of two movies slated for release in 2013: CBGB with Alan Rickman and 9 Full Moons with Amy Seimetz and Bret Roberts.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Sneakers	Dr. Gunter Janek
1993	'	Agent Tom Colton	TV series
1993	Gettysburg	Capt. Ellis Spear
1993	And the Band Played On	Bobbi Campbell
1994	'	Bill Pierce	TV series
1994	Disclosure	Chance Geer
1994	Little Women	Jacob Mayer
1995	Baja	Alex
1995	Medicine Ball	Danny Macklin	TV Series
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Derek
1995	3 Ninjas Knuckle Up	Jimmy
1996	Winterlude	Chris Hampson	Short film
1996	'	Gnome
1996	'	Cletus
1996	Eye for an Eye	Tony
1996	Diabolique	Video Photographer #1
1996	Dear God	Webster
1996	Jerry Maguire	Rick, Junior Agent
1996	Public Morals	Ken Schuler	TV series
1997	Metro	Earl
1997	Men with Guns	Goldman	Co-executive producer
1997	First Love, Last Rites	Red
1998	'		Television film
1998	Blade	Quinn
1998	'	Marl	Uncredited
1999	Runaway Bride	Priest Brian Norris
1999	'	Eamonn
2000	'	Dex
2000	'	Charley Best
2000	Reindeer Games	Pug
2000	Steal This Movie	Stew Albert
2000	Takedown	Alex Lowe
2000	'	Pat Duffy
2000	'	Dan Scott
2001	Glam	Tom Stone
2001	'	Sonny
2001-2005	Grounded for Life	Sean Finnerty	TV series
2002	Comic Book Villains	Raymond McGillicudy	Co-producer Direct-to-video
2003	Confidence	Officer Lloyd Whitworth
2003	American Splendor	Stage Actor Harvey
2003	Two Days	Ray O'Connor
2003-2005	ER	Chuck Martin	11 episodes
2005	Tennis, Anyone...?	Danny Macklin	Producer Director Writer
2005	Just Like Heaven	Jack Houriskey
2006	Jack's Law	Buzz	Uncredited
2006	'	Jimbo
2006	Shark Bait	Troy	Voice only Also known as The Reef.
2006	Citizen Duane	Uncle Bingo
2006	Almost Heaven	Mark Brady
2007	'	Eugene Gurkin	TV series
2007	'	Daryll
2007	'	Don Wollebin
2007	Ghost Rider	Mack
2007	Zodiac	Ken Narlow
2007	Purple Violets	Chazz Coleman
2007	Monk	Gully (uncredited role)	TV series Episode: "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night"
2008-2009	Life	Captain Kevin Tidwell	TV series
2008	No Place Like Home	Uncle Eddie	Short film
2008	Max Payne	Alex Balder
2009	'	Joe Bunting
2010	Charlie St. Cloud	Tink Weatherbee
2010	Terriers	Hank Dolworth	TV series
2011	Shark Night 3D	Sheriff Greg Sabin
2011	Oliver Sherman	Franklin Page
2011	House	Cyrus	TV series Episode: "Changes"
2012	'	Troy	Voice only Direct-to-video
2012-2013	Sons of Anarchy	Lee Toric	TV series
2012	Silent Night	Santa Jim Epstein
2013-present	Vikings	King Horik	TV series
2013	Copper	General Brendan Donovan	TV series