Acting
Aug 24, 1976
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Donavon Stinson
Acting
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).
Feature Films (23)
Cass, a high-powered attorney and single mother of two, is on the hunt for a new nanny after her precocious kids ran off the last one.
All Yours
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Gunless
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
The Unforgivable
When a new recruit joins the Union of Evil, he is assigned to a motley crew of blue-collar workers led by fallen henchmen Hank. But when “The Kid” accidentally steals the ultimate weapon, Hank must break his “risk nothing” code to save the boy he’s befriended, even if it means becoming the one thing he has always avoided… being a hero.
Henchmen
After Timmy Turner causes Santa amnesia he must become the new Santa in order to save Christmas.
A Fairly Odd Christmas
Inspired by a true story, rookie detective Linda Murphy (Sarah Drew) is fresh out of the police academy when she hears her boss, detective David Goodman (Eric Keenleyside) talking about a serial killer in the area who seems to be targeting sex workers. Teaming up with FBI agent Neil Carter (Jamall Johnson), Linda fights to go undercover to help solve the murders and, if all goes accordingly, capture a serial killer.
How She Caught A Killer
Television & Series (14)
21 year-old slacker Sam Oliver learns that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and now Sam has to repay the debt by becoming the Devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls that have somehow escaped from Hell.
Reaper
Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.
So Help Me Todd
A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.
50 States of Fright
A morally bankrupt car salesman is forced to become business partners with his inner conscience, an off-beat do gooder intent on healing Fitz's mangled psyche, one hilarious disaster at a time.
Call Me Fitz
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
