Martin Donovan (born August 19, 1957) is an American stage and film actor. He has had a long collaboration with the director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1993), Amateur (1994), and The Book of Life (1998) (in which he played Jesus). He is best known as Peter Scottson, the DEA agent on Showtime's Weeds. He made his Writing and Directorial debut in 2011 with the film Collaborator, which he stars in with David Morse.

Filmography

• Little House on the Prairie — Mr. Ingalls
• Earth Abides — Milton
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Charles Graff
• 2024The Apprentice — Fred Trump
• 2023BlackBerry — Rick Brock
• Lioness — Errol Meade
• 2023Sealed with a List — Silas Redmond
• Archive 81 — Virgil Davenport
• 2021Crisis — Lawrence Morgan
• Firefly Lane — Wilson King
• 2021Redemption Day — Tom Fitzgerald
• Dead Still — Bushrod Whacker
• 2020Percy — Rick Aarons
• 2020Tenet — Fay
• 2019Come to Daddy — Brian
• Nancy Drew — Everett Hudson
• 2019The Art of Racing in the Rain — Maxwell
• 2019White Lie — Doug Arneson
• Carter — Hamilton Gerard
• 2018Fahrenheit 451 — Commissioner Nyari
• 2018Indian Horse — Jack Lanahan
• 2018Status Update — Dutch Alden
• 2017Aftermath — Robert
• Big Little Lies — Martin Howard
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — Odin
• 2017Rememory — Gordon Dunn
• 2017The Lost Wife of Robert Durst — Detective Struk
• 2016All at Once — Giovanni Sacco
• Conviction — President Theodore 'Ted' Morrison
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Zaman Druce
• Lethal Weapon — Grant Davenport
• 2015Ant-Man — Mitchell Carson
• 2015Ned Rifle — Rev. Daniel Gardner
• 2014Amnesia: Who Are You? — Internet Submission 6
• 2014Inherent Vice — Crocker Fenway
• 2014Sabotage — Floyd Demel
• The Lottery — Darius Hayes
• King & Maxwell — Bob Scott
• Motive — Miles Balfour
• 2013Nurse 3-D — Larry Cook
• 2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Ludlow Cooper
• 2012Silent Hill: Revelation 3D — Douglas Cartland
• The Firm — Kevin Stack
• Boss — Ezra Stone
• 2011Collaborator — Robert Longfellow, Director, Writer
• Homeland — Leland Bennett
• Unforgettable — William Houston
• 2010Shadows & Lies — Victor
• Unnatural History — Martin Donovan
• 2010Unthinkable — Jack Saunders
• 2009Duress — Richard Barnett
• Everything She Ever Wanted — Charles
• 2009The Haunting in Connecticut — Peter Campbell
• The Listener — Michael Morrissey
• 2009The Spirit Box — Officer Dan Johnson
• Fear Itself — Officer Dan Johnson
• 2008K. Il bandito — Director, Writer
• 2008Remember Back, Remember When — Dad
• 2008The Alphabet Killer — Jim Walsh
• 2007Right to Die — Cliff Addison
• 2007Wind Chill — Highway Patrolman
• 2006Day On Fire — Walter Evering
• 2006The Garage — Adult Matt
• 2006The Quiet — Paul Deer
• 2006The Sentinel — William Montrose
• 2006The Visitation — Travis Jordan
• 2005Dark Shadows — Roger Collins
• Ghost Whisperer — Tom Gordon
• Masters of Horror — Cliff Addison
• Weeds — Peter Scottson, Lieutenant Peter Scottson
• 2004Saved! — Pastor Skip
• 2004The Pornographer: A Love Story — Michael
• Traffic — Brent Delaney
• 2003Agent Cody Banks — Dr. Connors
• 2003The United States of Leland — Harry Pollard
• 2002Insomnia — Hap Eckhart
• 2002Pipe Dream — David Kulovic
• 2002RFK — John F. Kennedy
• The Dead Zone — Malcolm Janus
• 2001Amy & Isabelle — Peter Robertson
• Pasadena — Will McAllister
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Howard Delhomme
• 2000Custody of the Heart — Dennis Raphael
• 2000Desire — (uncredited)
• 2000The Great Gatsby — Tom Buchanan
• Wonderland — Neil Harrison
• 1999Heaven — Robert Marling
• 1999In a Savage Land — Dr. Phillip Spence
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Dr. Archibald Newlands, Logan Carter
• 1999Onegin — Prince Nikitin
• The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer — Richard DiBenedetto
• 1999The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer — Richard DiBenedetto
• 1998Living Out Loud — Robert Nelson
• 1998Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples — Aart Vos
• 1998Spanish Fly — Carl
• 1998The Book of Life — Jesus Christ
• 1998The Opposite of Sex — Bill Truitt
• 1998When Trumpets Fade — Captain Pritchett
• 1997Night Sins — Paul Garrison
• Night Sins — Paul Garrison
• 1996Flirt — Walter
• 1996Hollow Reed — Martyn Wyatt
• 1996The Portrait of a Lady — Ralph Touchett
• 1995Nadja — Jim
• 1994Amateur — Thomas Ludens
• 1994The Rook — John Abbott
• 1993Flirt — Walter
• 1993Quick — Herschel Brewer
• 1993Scam — Gordon Wexler
• 1992Malcolm X — FBI Agent
• 1992Simple Men — Martin
• 1992Surviving Desire — Jude
• Law & Order — Robert White
• 1990Trust — Matthew Slaughter
• Leg Work
• 1985Hard Choices — Josh
• American Playhouse — Jude, Martin

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2010Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences — Himself
• 2005Upon Reflection: The Making of Trust — Self