---
name: "Edmund Donovan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edmund-donovan"
fi1m_id: "edmund-donovan"
imdb_id: "nm3942758"
tmdb_id: 1508173
wikidata_id: "Q90154157"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 August 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-25T01:12:54.760475+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Edmund Donovan

## Identity

Edmund Donovan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edmund-donovan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edmund-donovan
- **IMDb ID:** nm3942758
- **TMDB ID:** 1508173
- **Wikidata ID:** Q90154157
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Donovan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90154157, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3942758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508173

Actor. Born 24 August 1990 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 August 1990, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 69 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Action 1, Sport 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $127m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Donovan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90154157, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3942758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508173

## Coming up

- *The Nightingale* (2027-03-18)

## Biography

Edmund Donovan is an American actor. He was born on 24 August 1990 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BFA in acting from Boston University's College of Fine Arts in 2012 and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 2017.

Donovan's stage work includes the role of Joe in Samuel D. Hunter's *Greater Clements* (2019–2020), for which he received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Obie Award. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in Hunter's *Lewiston/Clarkston* (2018) and appeared as Jason in the 2021 Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's *Clyde's*.

His screen credits include the films *Akron* (2015), *Civil War* (2024), *Your Monster* (2024) and *Late Fame* (2025) as Meyers, as well as television appearances in *Orange Is the New Black* (2014), *The Blacklist* (2019), *High Fidelity* (2020), *Hightown* (2020), *Betty* (2020) and *Gossip Girl* (2021–2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com, wwd.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Late Fame* (2026), Fi1m 78, as Meyers — [page](https://film.one/film/late-fame.md)
- *Civil War* (2024), Fi1m 70, as Eddie — [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Betty* (2020), Fi1m 74, as Bambi — [page](https://film.one/tv/betty.md)
- *High Fidelity* (2020), Fi1m 70, as Blake — [page](https://film.one/tv/high-fidelity-2020.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Nightingale* (2027), Actor
- *Late Fame* (2026), as Meyers — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/late-fame.md)
- *Forge* (2026), as Holden Beaumont
- *Echo Valley* (2025), as Ryan
- *Your Monster* (2024), as Jacob
- *Civil War* (2024), as Eddie — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Annie* (2023), as Simon
- *Clyde's* (2021), as Jason
- *Gossip Girl* (2021), series, as Scott Kovacs
- *Glob Lessons* (2021), as Doug
- *Hightown* (2020), series, as Kizzle
- *Betty* (2020), series, as Bambi — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/betty.md)
- *High Fidelity* (2020), series, as Blake — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/high-fidelity-2020.md)
- *The Inhabitants* (2015), as Eric
- *Akron* (2015), as Christopher Welling
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Tobias Carlyle — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), series, as Roger — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md)
- *Unforgettable* (2011), series, as Derrick Hibbert
- *The Vizitant*, as Jeff Jeckle
- *Jonah*, Actor

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won

- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 2020: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play (won)
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play 2020: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play (won)
- Obie Award 2020: Obie Award (won)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 2019: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play (won)
- Lucille Lortel Awards 2019: Lucille Lortel Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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