Tate Donovan Movies and Career Information

Tate Buckley Donovan (born September 25, 1963) is an American actor. He is most recently known for his role in the FX drama Damages, as "Tom Shayes." He is also known for his role as "Jimmy Cooper" in the American teen drama television series The O.C.. He has also been the voice of "Hercules," a title character from the 1997 film of the same name, in the animated television series and in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. Tate Buckley Donovan, the youngest of seven children, was born in New York, the son of Eileen (née McAllister) and J. Timothy Donovan, who was a surgeon. He attended Dwight-Englewood School, in Englewood, New Jersey (graduates of which include Brooke Shields, Anthony Bourdain and Mira Sorvino), before transferring to a public high school, in Tenafly, New Jersey, and has been appearing on television since his teens. He attended the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, where he met his now long-time friends Grant Heslov and George Clooney. Donovan is of Irish heritage. His earliest films included teenager "Kevin Donaldson," in SpaceCamp (1986), co-starring Lea Thompson and Kate Capshaw; at the other end of the spectrum was the 1988 film, Clean and