Donovan, the youngest of seven children, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Eileen (née McAllister) and J. Timothy Donovan, who was a surgeon. He attended a public high school in Tenafly New Jersey and has been appearing on television since his teens. He attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he met his now long-time friends Grant Heslov and George Clooney. Read more...

Donovan played the role of Joshua, the boyfriend of Jennifer Aniston's character, Rachel Green, in a few episodes of season 4 of the sitcom Friends. He played the priest son of a large Irish Catholic family in the short-lived NBC drama Trinity (1998). More recently he has appeared as a guest star in several series such as The Guardian (2001), Mister Sterling (2003), Exposed (2003), and in the The Read more...

Donovan was formerly engaged to Sandra Bullock (1994) and to Jennifer Aniston. He also dated British socialite Plum Sykes (in 2000), actress Whitney Allen (2001), and Lauren Graham of the television series Gilmore Girls. He married Corinne Kingsbury in a Catholic ceremony on a Malibu, California beach in 2005. Donovan has also volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program. It was reported Read more...