By Tatiana Ponil
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian-American film and television actor. He played the starring role of Sean Finnerty on the sitcom Grounded for Life (2001–2005), and Detective Harvey Bullock on the DC Comics adaptation Gotham (2014–2019). He is also known for playing flight nurse Chuck Martin on ER (2003–2005), Lee Toric on Sons of Anarchy (2012–2013), Horik on Vikings (2013–2014), and the recurring role of Lt. (later Captain) Declan Murphy on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2014–2015).
Logue’s film work includes roles in Sneakers (1992), Gettysburg (1993), Little Women (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996), Blade (1998), The Patriot (2000), American Splendor (2003), Zodiac (2007), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). He won the Sundance Film Festival‘s Special Jury Prize for his performance in The Tao of Steve (2000).
Logue travels back and forth to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, where his mother lives. He holds Canadian, Irish, and American citizenship.
Logue has homes in Los Angeles and in Shady Cove, Oregon, where he cofounded Frison Logue Hardwood. Logue regularly plays for the Los Angeles–based amateur soccer team Hollywood United.
Logue has a Class-A Commercial Drivers License and is licensed to drive tractor-trailers with double or triple trailers, tankers and hazardous materials. He has a hardwood company with one partner called Frison-Logue Hardwood, and a trucking company called Aisling Trucking with two partners based out of Central Point, Oregon, which the three founded in 2012.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) –
- John Steinbeck (novelist) –
- Elizabeth Taylor (actress) –
- Howard Hesseman (actor) –
- Donal Logue (actor) –
- Chelsea Clinton (daughter of U.S. President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton) –
- Josh Groban (singer) –
Died
- Lillian Gish (actress) –
- Spike Milligan (comedian) –
- Fred Rogers (host of the PBS children’s show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood) –
- William F. Buckley Jr. (writer & founder of National Review) –
- Frank W. Buckles (last surviving U.S. WW I veteran; he was 110 years old) –
- Leonard Nimoy (actor) –
- Richard Lewis (comedian) –
Events
- During the American Revolutionary War, Loyalists were defeated in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, North Carolina –
- First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans –
- Saccharin was discovered –
- 22nd Constitutional Amendment, enforcing term limits, ratified. (Limits U.S. presidents to two terms.) –
- The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, stipulating a maximum of two consecutive presidential terms –
- Edwin Land granted patent for self-developing film –
- Mickey Mantle signed a $100,000 contract with the NY Yankees. His new salary tied him with Joe DiMaggio as the most highly paid Yankee players of their time. –
- Italian government asked public for ideas on how to save the leaning Tower of Pisa –
- 16-year-old Tiger Woods, youngest PGA golfer in 35 years, teed off in L.A. Open –
- A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck about 125 miles north of London, England –
- An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile –
- Nine-foot tall bronze sculpture of civil rights activist Rosa Parks unveiled in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. –
Weather
- Amenia, North Dakota, had its first above-zero reading in 47 days. –
- 61-mph winds, Nantucket, Mass. –
- Nine and a half inches of snow fell at Indianapolis, Indiana –
- 103 degrees Fahrenheit, Laredo, Texas –
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