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
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 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.
As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.
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.
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
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.
The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.
Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.