Donovan Leitch
Donovan Leitch was born in London, England, UK on August 16th, 1967 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 56, Donovan Leitch biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Donovan Jerome Leitch (born August 16, 1967) is an English-born American actor, singer and former model.
He is the son of the singer-songwriter Donovan and the brother of actress Ione Skye.
He was a member of the hard rock band Camp Freddy, and was a founding member of neo-glam group Nancy Boy along with Jason Nesmith, the son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.
Personal life
Leitch was born in London, the son of singer/songwriter Donovan and model Enid Karl (née Stulberger). He is the brother of actress Ione Skye. His parents separated when he was three and he was raised by his mother in the Hollywood Hills of California. His father is Scottish, of partial Irish descent. His mother was raised in The Bronx, New York City and is Jewish.
He married Scottish model Kirsty Hume on September 23, 1997. Their daughter, Violet Jean Leitch, was born March 21, 2004, at home in Los Angeles. Leitch and Hume separated in 2011, and Hume filed for divorce in summer 2014.
Leitch proposed to actress Libby Mintz two months after Hume filed for divorce. He and Mintz had a son, Donovan Evers Leitch, on April 14, 2015, and were married in a ceremony in Los Angeles on October 3, 2015.
Career
Leitch appeared in the films Breaking Body (1988), The In Crowd (1988), And God Created Woman (1988), The Blob (1989), Fragment (1992), Black Dog (1994), City of Los Angeles (1994), and Love Kills (1998). In the Birds of Prey episode "Gladiatrix," Leitch was portrayed as the villain of the week, Malcolm Lagg, an underground fight club coordinator for metahumans.
He auditioned for the role of "Bill S. Preston Esquire" in Bill & Ted's Great Adventure in 1986, one of the final picks along with Keanu Reeves, Gary Riley, and Matt Adler. Alex Winter, who began reading for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan, was ultimately given the role.
Leitch formed Nancy Boy, an alternative rock band with glamrock and Britpop influences in the early 1990s. Jason Nesmith, the son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, was also in the band. In 1995 and 1996, the band released two albums, Promosexual and Nancy Boy. Despite the fact that their second album was released on major label Elektra Records, it was not a success, and the band fell inactive after Nesmith left the lineup a few years later.