Early life

Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Irish parents from County Kerry. His father, Michael J. Logue, was once a Carmelite Catholic missionary in Africa, where he met Donal's mother, Elizabeth. They eventually married and then moved to England. They had four children. Logue has three sisters: Karina, an actress; twin sister Deirdre (who is not in show business); and Eileen, an education consultant. His father is the president of Aisling Industries, which makes microchips for cellphone companies. Logue lived most of his childhood and teen years in El Centro, California, where he attended Central Union High School, although for his junior year, he attended St Ignatius' College in Enfield, Greater London, England. While in High School, Donal was the California State Champion in Impromptu Speaking and in 1983 was elected President of the American Legion Boys Nation. His mother was a teacher at Calexico High School in Calexico, California during the 1980s and 1990s. After high school, Logue studied History at Harvard University. While there, he was a member of the Signet Society.

Career

After a few TV movies, Logue first appeared in film playing Dr. Gunter Janek in the 1992 film Sneakers. In 1993, he portrayed Capt. Ellis Spear in Gettysburg. In 1993, he guest starred on the Northern Exposure episode "Baby Blues" playing a movie script agent, Judd Bromell. Logue appeared as a rival FBI agent to Fox Mulder in The X-Files episode "Squeeze." Logue's character Jimmy The Cab Driver was a staple of MTV promos in the early 90s. He also appeared in Blade and The Patriot, in 2000. He appeared in two of Edward Burns films: Purple Violets and The Groomsmen.

Logue's portrayal as the lead in The Tao of Steve won him a Special Grand Jury Prize for best actor at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, was noticed by ER producer John Wells, who cast Logue in several episodes as Chuck Martin, a nurse Dr. Susan Lewis marries one weekend in Las Vegas on a whim, and later has a child with. Concurrent with the run on ER, Logue starred in the critically acclaimed comedy Grounded for Life. In December 2005, Logue had a pilot development deal for a new situation comedy on ABC television, originally titled I Want to Rob Mick Jagger. The pilot was picked up and debuted in the winter of 2006 under the name The Knights of Prosperity. The show disappeared from the ABC lineup in early March 2007.

Logue also appeared in a supporting role in Just Like Heaven (2005). Logue had appeared as Phil Stubbs in the original pilot for the NBC show Ed, but dropped out to star in Grounded for Life. The first two-and-a-half seasons of "Grounded for Life" were telecast on the Fox network, thereafter the show moved to The WB for the remainder of its run. In 2002 and 2003, Logue appeared on the VH1 "I Love. . ." series installments '80s, '70s, and '80s Strikes Back. In 2010, Logue appeared on House, M.D. as millionaire patient Curtis Harry.

Logue also appeared in NBC's The Dennis, in 2005, about a former child prodigy whose parents kick him out of the house and into the real world. It was not picked up, however. Logue co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the movie Ghost Rider, the David Fincher film Zodiac, and alongside Mark Wahlberg in the 20th Century Fox film Max Payne. In 2008, Logue appeared in the Jack Kerouac documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. Logue starred as Captain Kevin Tidwell in the NBC crime drama Life from 2008-2009. On May 4, 2009, NBC announced Life would not be returning for a third season.

Logue starred in FX series Terriers which was cancelled due to low ratings, even with great reviews from the press such as the Times. Logue starred as the main character in Theory of a Deadman's music video for the song "Lowlife," off their 2011 release, The Truth Is....

In late 2012, Logue joined the casts of Sons of Anarchy as renegade ex-U.S. Marshal Lee Toric who is out for revenge for the murder of his sister and Vikings as King Horik. In 2013 he joined the cast of BBC America's show Copper as a returning Union General turned Tammany Hall insider, General Brendan Donovan, and he returned to Sons of Anarchy and Vikings to reprise his roles from the previous seasons. Logue had roles in two 2013: CBGB with Alan Rickman and 9 Full Moons with Amy Seimetz and Bret Roberts.

Between March and May of 2014 he appeared in six episodes of the NBC police procedural, crime, legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lieutenant Declan Murphy, a former undercover officer appointed as acting commander of the Special Victims Unit. Since 2014, he has portrayed Harvey Bullock in the police procedural series Gotham, based on the DC Comics Batman franchise.

In 2015, Logue appeared in Adam Massey's thriller film The Intruders.

Personal life

Logue travels back and forth to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, where his mother lives, and holds both Irish and Canadian citizenship.

Logue has homes in Los Angeles and Oregon. When not acting, Logue is heavily involved in soccer, and regularly plays for the Los Angeles-based amateur team Hollywood United.

Logue has a Class-A Commercial Drivers License and is licensed to drive tractor-trailers with double or triple trailers, tankers and hazardous materials. He has a Hardwood company with one partner called Frison-Logue Hardwood, and a trucking company called Aisling Trucking with two partners based out of Central Point, Oregon, which the three founded in 2012.

Logue was married to Kasey Walker. The couple had two sons together.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Sneakers	Dr. Gunter Janek
1993	Gettysburg	Capt. Ellis Spear
	And the Band Played On	Bobbi Campbell
1994	Disclosure	Chance Geer
	Little Women	Jacob Mayer
1995	Baja	Alex
	Miami Rhapsody	Derek
	3 Ninjas Knuckle Up	Jimmy
1996	Winterlude	Chris Hampson	Short film
	Grave, TheThe Grave	Cletus
	Eye for an Eye	Tony
	Diabolique	Video Photographer #1
	Dear God	Webster
	Jerry Maguire	Rick, Junior Agent
1997	The Size of Watermelons	Gnome
	Metro	Earl
	Glam	Tom Stone
	Men with Guns	Goldman	Co-executive producer
	First Love, Last Rites	Red
1998	Blade	Quinn
	The Thin Red Line	Marl	Uncredited
1999	Runaway Bride	Priest Brian Norris
	Big Tease, TheThe Big Tease	Eamonn
2000	Tao of Steve, TheThe Tao of Steve	Dex
	Million Dollar Hotel, TheThe Million Dollar Hotel	Charley Best
	Reindeer Games	Pug
	Steal This Movie	Stew Albert
	Takedown	Alex Lowe
	Opportunists, TheThe Opportunists	Pat Duffy
	Patriot, TheThe Patriot	Dan Scott
2001	The Château	Sonny
2002	Comic Book Villains	Raymond McGillicudy	Co-producer Direct-to-video
2003	Confidence	Officer Lloyd Whitworth
	American Splendor	Stage Actor Harvey
	Two Days	Ray O'Connor
2005	Tennis, Anyone...?	Danny Macklin	Producer Director Writer
	Just Like Heaven	Jack Houriskey
2006	Jack's Law	Buzz	Uncredited
	Groomsmen, TheThe Groomsmen	Jimbo
	Shark Bait	Troy	Voice only Also known as The Reef
	Citizen Duane	Uncle Bingo
	Almost Heaven	Mark Brady
	The Ex	Don Wollebin
2007	The Good Life	Daryll
	Ghost Rider	Mack
	Zodiac	Ken Narlow
	Purple Violets	Chazz Coleman
2008	No Place Like Home	Uncle Eddie	Short film
	Max Payne	Alex Balder
2009	Lodger, TheThe Lodger	Joe Bunting
2010	Charlie St. Cloud	Tink Weatherbee
2011	Shark Night 3D	Sheriff Greg Sabin
	Oliver Sherman	Franklin Page
2012	Reef 2: High Tide, TheThe Reef 2: High Tide	Troy	Voice only Direct-to-video
	Kill For Me	Hayley's Father
	Silent Night	Santa Jim Epstein
2013	CBGB	Merv Ferguson
2015	The Intruders	Jerry Halshford	Direct-to-DVD

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	X-Files, TheThe X-Files	Agent Tom Colton	Episode: "Squeeze"
	Northern Exposure	Judd Bromell, movie script agent	Episode: "Baby Blues"
1994	Crew, TheThe Crew	Bill Pierce
1995	Medicine Ball	Danny Macklin
1996	Public Morals	Ken Schuler
1998	Bright Shining Lie, AA Bright Shining Lie	Steven Burnett	Television film
2001-2005	Grounded for Life	Sean Finnerty	91 episodes
2003-2005	ER	Chuck Martin	11 episodes
2007	Knights of Prosperity, TheThe Knights of Prosperity	Eugene Gurkin
	Monk	Gully (uncredited role)	Episode: "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night"
2008-2009	Life	Captain Kevin Tidwell
2010	Terriers	Hank Dolworth
2011	House	Cyrus Harry	Episode: "Changes"
2012-2013	Sons of Anarchy	Lee Toric
2013-2014	Vikings	King Horik
2013	Copper	General Brendan Donovan
2014-2015	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lt. Declan Murphy	Recurring, Seasons 15 - 17
2014-	Gotham	Harvey Bullock	Main Role (44 episodes)

Charities

Donal Logue supports the following charitable causes: Teens, Peace, Children.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]