Donal Logue
Donal Logue
Donal Francis Logue is an Irish-Canadian film and television actor, producer and writer. His notable roles include starring in the film The Tao of Steve, Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, the sitcom Grounded for Life, the television series Copper and the detective series Terriers. He currently stars as detective Harvey Bullock in Fox's Gotham and had a recurring role in NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lt. Declan Murphy...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 February 1966
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
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 think I was able to ride on a good wave of not seeming too desperate. There's a confidence in there that's actually rare for me.
Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.
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 film.
The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.
Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.
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.
I've always managed to hustle; since the show ended, I did probably ten movies. I always feel like I can stay busy and do stuff.
Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.
There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.
I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.