Donavon Stinson

Donavon Stinson

Known for
Acting
Born
August 25, 1976
Place of birth
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada

Biography

Donavon Stinson (born August 25, 1976, in Rivers, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian actor and motion capture performer, 5′ 10½″ (179 cm) tall. He moved to Vancouver in 1997 and entered the industry through motion capture work at Mainframe Entertainment, beginning with Heavy Gear (47 episodes), before becoming a go-to performer for motion capture studios across animated series and video games — including Peter Parker/Spider-Man in MTV's Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003), Captain Shepard in the Mass Effect series, Gollum and Legolas in EA's Lord of the Rings games, Venkman in the Ghostbusters video game, and aliens in District 9 (2009). He transitioned to live-action with a guest role on Dark Angel (2002, created by James Cameron), and won a Leo Award for his role as Josh McTaggart in Call Me Fitz (2010–2013, 48 episodes, HBO Canada, with Jason Priestley). His most notable film credits include Nevin in Chaos Theory (2008, with Ryan Reynolds), an X Games Announcer in Fantastic Four (2005), a Heckler in Hot Rod (2007, with Andy Samberg), a Suited Man in The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), a Prison Soldier in Warcraft (2016), and a Police Officer in The Unforgivable (2021, with Sandra Bullock). On television he is best known as Ted Gallagher in Reaper (2007–2009, 31 episodes, CW, with Ray Wise), with additional credits in UnREAL (2015, 28 episodes, Lifetime), Supernatural (2017), Lucifer (2016), Three Moons Over Milford (2006, 8 episodes), Creepshow (2019), and more recently Stick (2025, with Owen Wilson) and Untamed (2025, with Eric Bana).

Movies with Donavon Stinson

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