Jeffrey Donovan was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1968. His acting experience started in high school when he put up the drama department at his local high school. Donovan, who got his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, made his film debut in the 1995 independent movie, Throwing Down, which won top Jury prize at the 1995 Hampton’s film festival. Donovan went on to land a small part in Sleepers and has since gone on to appear in many television shows like The Pretender, Spin City, Touching Evil and Crossing Jordan.

Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan on Burn Notice, is a former covert operative whose life becomes a prison when someone in his former agency issues a burn notice for him. A burn notice essentially robs the agent of any meaningful life by freezing his assets, dumping him in Miami and flagging him on every government list imaginable. While Michael sets out to discover the identity of the person behind his burn notice, he also has to deal with his violence prone ex-girlfriend and his hypochondriac mother.



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