Donavon Stinson
- Acting
- August 25, 1976 · 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).
Known for
Filmography
- UNTAMED · Morris Gaynor
- Stick · Ben Putman
- How She Caught A Killer · Stan Peterson
- So Help Me Todd · Ben Cooper
- Caught in His Web · Lieutenant Pierce
- The Unforgivable · Police Officer
- 50 States of Fright · Dale
- Creepshow · Doug (segment "Meet the Belaskos")
- Henchmen · Nick of Time / Bloop (Voice)
- Ghost Wars · Shane
- Dead Shack · Roger
- Dead Rising: Endgame · Zane
- Warcraft · Prison Soldier
- All Yours · Adam
- Lucifer · Donavon
- Mighty Mighty Monsters: Pranks for the Memories · Vlad/Rooney/Zombie Boy (Voice)
- UnREAL · AD Dan
- Gourmet Detective · Layton
- Santa Hunters · Santa
- Mighty Mighty Monsters in New Fears Eve · Vlad / Rooney / Zombie boy
- Jinxed · Dad
- A Fairly Odd Christmas · Santa
- Snowmageddon · Tully
- Ice Road Terror · Trucker
- Call Me Fitz · Josh McTaggart
- Gunless · Constable Hughes
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe · Suited Man
- Chaos Theory · Nevin
- Reaper · Ted Gallagher
- Hot Rod · Heckler
- Eureka · Dr. Max Dillon
- Psych · Ben Skyler
- Supernatural · Wally
- Fantastic Four · X Games Announcer
- Hot Wheels: World Race · Motion Actor
- The Stranger Beside Me · Court Goer
- A Guy Thing · Mouthy Bar Guy
- Dark Angel · Bill (Channel 3 News)