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Date of Birth

27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name

Donal Francis Logue

Height

5' 11" (1.80 m)

Mini Biography

Donal Logue, who is famous for his role as Jimmy the cab driver on MTV promos, is nothing like the greasy typical Boston cabby he portrays. Raised in El Centro, California, he was ASB president at his local high school, and went on to attend Harvard University. Although he had always considered himself a writer, his interest in theater was sparked at Harvard. He studied at the British-American Drama Academy in London, and performed in many plays before getting his break in Sneakers (1992). From there he went on to perform in movies such as Little Women (1994), An Eye for an Eye (2002), and Disclosure (1994). Even today, Donal enjoys writing almost more than acting. He writes the Jimmy the cab driver promos.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Peggy Ryan

Trivia

After losing 4 friends to alcohol abuse, Donal swore off in 1991 and has remained clean since.

Acted as a roadie for the rock group, The Lemonheads in the 1980s and then worked with a traveling theater group.

Studied history at Harvard.

Was originally cast as Phil Stubbs on "Ed" (2000).

His father taught in Catholic Mission Schools in Nigeria where he met his future wife, Elizabeth. They married and then moved to England.

Has three sisters, Eileen Logue Sciarretta, his twin Deirdre Logue Sciarretta, and Karina Logue.

Is now an uncle (April 2nd, 2004)

Is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Is good friends with actor Stephen Dorff.

Is of Irish ancestry.

Personal Quotes

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid...but stay focused.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

(About "Grounded for life"): Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle - but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago - sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making.

There were a lot of reasons I chose "Grounded for Life": my family was close by and I didn't have to travel, and I loved the cast so much.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

My Mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a Missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

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