Donovan Jerome Leitch''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.'' at ancestry.com (born August 16, 1967) is an English-born American actor and singer. He is the son of the singer-songwriter

Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles ...

and the brother of actress

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. He was a member of the hard rock band

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, was a founding member of neo-glam group Nancy Boy along with Jason Nesmith, the son of

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. As an actor, he is best known for portraying Paul Taylor in the 1988 remake of ''

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''.

Career

Leitch appeared in the films '' Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' (1985), '' The In Crowd'' (1988), '' ...And God Created Woman'' (1988), ''

'' (1988), '' Glory'' (1989, portraying Charles Fessenden Morse), ''

Cutting Class ''Cutting Class'' is a 1989 American black comedy slasher film directed by Rospo Pallenberg in his directorial debut, written by Steve Slavkin, and starring Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, and Martin Mull. It was Pit ...

'' (1989), '' Gas, Food Lodging'' (1992), ''

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'' (1992), ''

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'' (1993), ''Cityscrapes: Los Angeles'' (1994), ''

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'' (1996), ''

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'' (1997) and '' Love Kills'' (1998). Leitch was featured as the villain of the week, Malcolm Lagg, an underground fight club coordinator for metahumans in the ''

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'' episode " Gladiatrix". In 1986, he auditioned for the role of "Bill S. Preston Esquire" in ''

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'' being one of the final picks along with

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and

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. The role ultimately went to

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, who initially read for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan. In the early 1990s, Leitch formed Nancy Boy, an

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band with

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and

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influences. The band also featured guitarist Jason Nesmith, son of

. The band released two albums, ''Promosexual'' in 1995 and ''

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'' in 1996. Although their second album was issued on major label

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, it failed to meet expectatios, and the band fell inactive after Nesmith left the lineup a few years later.

Personal life

Leitch was born in London, the son of singer/songwriter

and model Enid Karl (née Stulberger). He is the brother of actress

. 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

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and is

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. He married Scottish model

Kirsty Hume Kirsty Hume (born 4 September 1976) is a Scottish model who came to prominence in the 1990s. Modeling Hume modelled for Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Gianfranco Ferré, Claude Montana, Alexander McQu ...

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.

Filmography

Film

Television

Nancy Boy discography

Albums

*''Promosexual'' (Equator, 1995) *''

'' (

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1996)

Singles

*"Johnny Chrome and Silver" (Equator, 1994) *"

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" (Equator, 1995) *"Deep Sleep Motel" (Sire Records 1996)

References

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