Biography
Martin Donovan (born August 19, 1957) is an American stage and film actor. He has had a long collaboration with the director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1993), Amateur (1994), and The Book of Life (1998) (in which he played Jesus). He is best known as Peter Scottson, the DEA agent on Showtime's Weeds. He made his Writing and Directorial debut in 2011 with the film Collaborator, which he stars in with Davi...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Apprentice
2024
as Fred Trump
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat...
BlackBerry
2023
as Rick Brock
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to b...
Crisis
2021
as Lawrence Morgan
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., ...
Redemption Day
2021
as Tom Fitzgerald
When his wife is kidnapped by terrorists for ransom, veteran war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operati...
Percy
2020
as Rick Aarons
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a ...
Tenet
2020
as Fay
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of internation...
White Lie
2019
as Doug Arneson
Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus c...
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019
as Maxwell
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
Come to Daddy
2019
as Brian
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experienc...
Fahrenheit 451
2018
as Commissioner Nyari
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Indian Horse
2018
as Jack Lanahan
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey pl...
Status Update
2018
as Dutch Alden
After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, a teenager stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social...
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
2017
as Detective Struk
Young and wide-eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darke...
Rememory
2017
as Gordon Dunn
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Aftermath
2017
as Robert
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he ha...
All at Once
2016
as Giovanni Sacco
A young artist in New York City accepts guardianship of his best friends' daughters after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Eleven years later, he ...
Ant-Man
2015
as Mitchell Carson
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mento...
Ned Rifle
2015
as Rev. Daniel Gardner
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan,...
Inherent Vice
2014
as Crocker Fenway
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Amnesia: Who Are You?
2014
as Internet Submission 6
Sabotage
2014
as Floyd Demel
John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-sta...
Nurse 3-D
2013
as Larry Cook
Abby Russell, a beautiful, dedicated nurse with a sinister side, has a secret life in which she targets and punishes dishonest men.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
as Ludlow Cooper
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2012
as Douglas Cartland
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand. Now on the eve of her ...
Collaborator
2011
as Robert Longfellow
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Collaborator
2011
Director, Writer
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences
2010
as Himself
A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and ...
Unthinkable
2010
as Jack Saunders
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned...
Shadows & Lies
2010
as Victor
The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in...
Duress
2009
as Richard Barnett
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to...
The Haunting in Connecticut
2009
as Peter Campbell
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the h...
The Alphabet Killer
2008
as Jim Walsh
Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with o...
K. Il bandito
2008
Director, Writer
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Wind Chill
2007
as Highway Patrolman
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of peop...
Right to Die
2007
as Cliff Addison
When a grisly car accident put his wife into a coma, a man reluctantly pulls the plug only to realize her spirit has turned vengeful against the livin...
The Garage
2006
A mechanic at his father's garage during the late 1970s, Matt dreams about leaving his small town existence and pursuing grander ambitions. But strong...
Day On Fire
2006
as Walter Evering
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.
The Sentinel
2006
as William Montrose
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the P...
The Visitation
2006
as Travis Jordan
In Antioch, the former Father Travis Jordan lost his faith on God three years ago when his beloved wife was murdered and the criminals never found. Su...
The Quiet
2005
as Paul Deer
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to D...
Dark Shadows
2005
as Roger Collins
The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB Television Network, but was not picked up and has ne...
Upon Reflection: The Making of Trust
2005
as Self
An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne Sh...
Saved!
2004
as Pastor Skip
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her lif...
The Pornographer: A Love Story
2004
as Michael
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
The United States of Leland
2003
as Harry Pollard
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfrien...
Agent Cody Banks
2003
as Dr. Connors
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an...
Pipe Dream
2002
as David Kulovic
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
RFK
2002
as John F. Kennedy
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision...
Insomnia
2002
as Hap Eckhart
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Amy & Isabelle
2001
as Peter Robertson
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has o...
Desire
2000
An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
Custody of the Heart
2000
as Dennis Raphael
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis...
The Great Gatsby
2000
as Tom Buchanan
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
Onegin
1999
as Prince Nikitin
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
In a Savage Land
1999
as Dr. Phillip Spence
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks ou...
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
as Richard DiBenedetto
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
Heaven
1999
as Robert Marling
A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Pa...
Living Out Loud
1998
as Robert Nelson
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...
Spanish Fly
1998
as Carl
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Sp...
The Book of Life
1998
as Jesus Christ
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
When Trumpets Fade
1998
as Captain Pritchett
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon...
The Opposite of Sex
1998
as Bill Truitt
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1998
as Aart Vos
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
Night Sins
1997
as Paul Garrison
A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bi...
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Ralph Touchett
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill fathe...
Hollow Reed
1996
as Martyn Wyatt
Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah an...
Flirt
1995
as Walter
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returni...
Nadja
1995
as Jim
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their fathe...
The Rook
1994
as John Abbott
Martin Donovan plays John Abbott, a church investigator looking into a murder. The world is similar to England in the mid to late 1800s but with odd t...
Amateur
1994
as Thomas Ludens
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is f...
Flirt
1993
as Walter
In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks ...
Quick
1993
as Herschel Brewer
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her ho...
Scam
1993
as Gordon Wexler
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself be...
Malcolm X
1992
as FBI Agent
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...
Simple Men
1992
as Martin
Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing th...
Surviving Desire
1992
as Jude
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the t...
Trust
1990
as Matthew Slaughter
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The ...
Hard Choices
1985
as Josh
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despi...