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
One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.
This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.
I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.
I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.
I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
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.
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.
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.
I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.