D.W. Moffett Movies and Career Information

Donald Warren Moffett (born October 26, 1954) is an American actor known for the recurring role of Joe McCoy in the NBC series Friday Night Lights since 2008, and as Dean Winston on The WB series, For Your Love. Moffett was born in Highland Park, Illinois and raised in nearby Wilmette. He took the stage name of "D.W." to avoid confusion with British actor Donald Moffat. The Moffetts are able to trace their ancestry to Jean de Mophet. de Mophet was a Norman knight who invaded England with William the Conqueror in 1064 CE. Mophet was anglicized to Moffat and later Moffett. The town of Moffat, Scotland in the borderlands of Scotland and England is the Moffett's ancestral home. In the years 1969-1970 Moffett attended a private secondary school in Germany (Schule Schloss Neubeuern). After attending Stanford University, where he majored in Political Science, he found himself back in Chicago working as an investment banker. He was lured by a friend to the St. Nicholas Theater Company on a whim, where he began studying with William H. Macy. Shortly thereafter, he fell in love with the stage, and started his own theater company, called Remains Theater. After a long and successful career on