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Q: What has Jeffrey Donovan been doing since "Burn Notice"?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Playing Kennedys, mostly.

Perhaps it's natural for a handsome guy from Massachusetts, but Jeffrey Donovan has the odd distinction of having played both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert in major films.

He played Bobby in the high-profile 2011 film "J. Edgar," a biography of the legendarily powerful FBI head, directed by the equally legendary Clint Eastwood.

Five years later, another great director, Rob Reiner, was making the biopic "LBJ," and he turned again to Donovan and his eternally babyish face, this time to play JFK.

Of course, it hasn't just been Kennedys since Donovan's show "Burn Notice" ended in 2013. He took another crack at series television in 2016 with "Shut Eye," an oddball crime drama that only lasted a season on the online Hulu channel. He also did an arc in the critically acclaimed cable drama "Fargo."

Back on the big screen, his biggest non-Kennedy role has been as DEA agent Steve Forsing in 2015's "Sicario" and this year's sequel, "Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado."

 

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