Tate Donovan

Tate Donovan
Background information
Born	Tate Buckley Donovan September 25, 1963 (age 60) Tenafly, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor, voice actor, director
Years active	1984–present
Family information
Spouse	Corinne Kingsbury (2005–2008)
Partner	Jennifer Aniston (1995–1998)

Tate Buckley Donovan is an American actor, voice actor, and director. For Disney, he provided the voice of the titular character in the 1997 Disney animated feature film Hercules, and has since reprised the role in most of the character's subsequent appearances, including the television series of the same name, House of Mouse, and the Kingdom Hearts series since Kingdom Hearts II. He also voiced Gobu in The Legend of Tarzan and played Peter Jacobson in the 1994 Hollywood Pictures film Holy Matrimony and Howard Plummer in The Pacifier. Additionally, he directed a few episodes of the Freeform series The Fosters.

Donovan was born in Tenafly, New Jersey and attended Dwight-Englewood School before transferring to Tenafly High School and attending the University of Southern California. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Cooper in the American teen drama TV series The O.C. His other television credits include Tales from the Crypt, Partners, Homicide: Life on the Street, Ally McBeal, Damages, Hostages, Elementary, The Man in the High Castle, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and MacGyver.

Among his film credits, Donovan has played Carson Drew in the 2007 adaptation of Nancy Drew and Bo Anders in Argo. He also appeared in Inside Monkey Zetterland, Love Potion No. 9, Good Night and Good Luck, Manchester by the Sea, Elvis & Nixon, Rocketman, Respect, and Silver Bells with Anne Heche.

Filmography

• Holy Matrimony (1994)
• Hercules (1997)
• Hercules: The Animated Series (1998) TV Series
• Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)
• House of Mouse (2001) TV Series
• The Legend of Tarzan (2001) TV Series
• The Pacifier (2005)
• Kingdom Hearts II (2006) (video game)
• Kingdom Hearts coded (2011) (video game)
• Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX (Re: Coded Cinematics; 2014) (video game)
• Kingdom Hearts III (2019) (video game)

Roles

Hercules
(Hercules franchise)

Gobu
(The Legend of Tarzan)

Howard Plummer
(The Pacifier)

Gallery

Tate Donovan behind the scenes of Hercules.

Tate Donovan attending the 2012 Toronto International Film Fest.

Tate Donovan speaks at the Deception panel at the NBC portion of the 2013 Winter TCA Tour.

Tate Donovan arrives at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2013.

Tate Donovan at the 66th annual Emmy Awards in August 2014.

Tate Donovan attending the 54th Annual New York Film Fest in September 2016.

Trivia

• For unknown reasons, Tate Donovan did not return to reprise his role as Hercules in the first Kingdom Hearts game where instead he was voiced by Sean Astin. He did, however, return to reprise his role as Hercules since Kingdom Hearts II.
• He was engaged to Jennifer Aniston, until they broke up in 1998.Following their split, Donovan then appeared in Aniston's show Friends' as Joshua, who would date her character Rachel Green for a short time in season 4.

External links

• Tate Donovan on IMDb
• Tate Donovan on Wikipedia
• http://www.theocshow.com/bios/jimmybio.htm
• Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) Tate Donovan is the spokesperson for BCAN. His father, a urologist, died from bladder cancer and his mother has bladder cancer.