Biography
Though a stage-trained performer who had amassed numerous film and television credits, actor Donal Logue came into his own playing the obnoxious, but culturally enlightened Jimmy the Cabdriver in short interstitials on MTV during the mid-to-late-1990s. Unrecognizable in his caricature of a pop culture know-it-all with greasy hair and thick glasses annoying his customers, Logue was sought out for a wide range of character parts, including …
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Career Milestones
1990 | Acted in the Mike Newell-directed CBS miniseries "Common Ground" |
1991 | Appeared in the PBS "American Playhouse" production "Darrow", a biographical drama chronicling the life of attorney Clarence Darrow |
1992 | Guest starred on an episode of "The Commish" (ABC) |
1992 | Made feature film acting debut with a supporting role in "Sneakers" |
1993 | Featured as part of the ensemble of HBO's chronicle of the AIDS crisis "And the Band Played On" |
1993 | Guested as a rock idol in an episode of the ABC sitcom "Almost Home" |
1993 | Played Captain Ellis Spear, a Federal soldier, in the war drama "Gettysburg" |
1993 | Played a man whose wife enlists her mother as the surrogate for their child in the fact-based CBS TV-movie "Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story" |
1994 | Appeared in Gillian Armstrong's adaptation of "Little Women" |
1994 | Began appearing as Jimmy the Cabdriver in a memorable series of MTV interstitials |
1994 | Made starring feature debut in the independent thriller "The Crew" |
1995 | Acted in the comedy "Miami Rhapsody" |
1995 | Appeared in the children's sequel "3 Ninjas Knuckle Up" |
1995 | Starred as an intern at a university hospital in the short-lived Fox medical drama "Medicine Ball" |
1996 | Appeared in the Garry Marshall comedy "Dear God" |
1996 | Featured in the independent film "The Grave", which debuted on HBO |
1996 | Had a cameo as a videographer in the remake "Diabolique" |
1996 | Had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom "The Single Guy" |
1996 | Played a junior talent agent in "Jerry Maguire" |
1996 | Played the father of a murdered child in the drama "Eye For an Eye" |
1996 | Starred as an Anglo-Hawaiian comic book store manager and potential film subject in the independent feature "The Size of Watermelons", directed by Kari Skogland |
1996 | Starred with Molly Ringwald in the Kurt Voss thriller "Baja" |
1996 | Was a regular on the law enforcement comedy "Public Morals" (CBS); only one episode aired |
1997 | Acted in the anthology series "Gun" (ABC) |
1997 | Featured in the action comedy "Metro" |
1997 | Reteamed with Jimmy the Cabdriver co-creator Jesse Peretz, acting in his feature directorial debut "First Love, Last Rites" |
1997 | Reteamed with director Skogland as star and co-executive producer of the Canadian production "Men With Guns" |
1998 | Co-starred in the supernatural actioner "Blade" |
1998 | Had a recurring role as Assistant D.A. Dick Flood on the acclaimed ABC legal drama "The Practice" |
1998 | Played supporting role as a journalist reporting Vietnam War fallacies in the HBO fact-based movie "A Bright Shining Lie" |
1999 | Featured as zany chauffeur Eamonn in the comedy feature "The Big Tease" |
1999 | Played a priest who was previously one of the grooms stood up by Julia Roberts' titular "Runaway Bride" |
2000 | Featured in Wim Wenders' "The Million Dollar Hotel", winner of the Berlin Film Festival's Jury Prize and Silver Bear Awards |
2000 | Featured the fact-based computer hacker drama "Takedown" |
2000 | Had a featured role as a lunkheaded would-be robber in John Frankenheimer's actioner "Reindeer Games" |
2000 | Played 1960s activist Stew Albert in "Steal This Movie!", an independent film based on the life of Abbie Hoffman |
2000 | Starred in the independent feature "The Tao of Steve", screened to acclaim at Sundance; received the festival's Special Jury Prize for his performance |
2000 | Starred with Cyndi Lauper and Christopher Walken in the Sundance-screened feature "The Opportunists" |
2001 | Starred in the Fox midseason replacement "Grounded for Life" |
2003 | Cast in "American Splendor" starring Paul Giamatti as comic book everyman Harvey Pekar |
2005 | Cast opposite Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo in Mark Waters' "Just Like Heaven" |
2007 | Co-starred with Nicholas Cage in the Marvel Comics-inspired "Ghost Rider" |
2007 | Starred in the short-lived ABC comedy series "The Knights of Prosperity" |
2008 | Acted opposite Mark Wahlberg in the action drama film "Max Payne," based on the popular video game |
2010 | Appeared opposite Zac Efron in "Charlie St. Cloud," about a young man (Efron) coming to terms with the death of his younger brother |