Donovan Jerome Leitch,[1] English-born American actor and singer.[2] He is the son of the singer-songwriter Donovan and the brother of actress Ione Skye. He was a member of the hard rock band Camp Freddy, was a founding member of neo-glam group Nancy Boy along with Jason Nesmith, the son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.[3] As an actor, he is best known for portraying Paul Taylor in the 1988 remake of The Blob.
Career
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In the early 1990s, Leitch formed Nancy Boy, an alternative rock band with glam rock and Britpop influences.[5] The band also featured guitarist Jason Nesmith, son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. The band released two albums, Promosexual in 1995 and Nancy Boy in 1996.[5] Although their second album was issued on major label Elektra Records, it was not a success, and the band fell inactive after Nesmith left the lineup a few years later.[5]
Personal life
Leitch was born in London, the son of singer/songwriter Donovan and model Enid Karl (née Stulberger).[6][7] He is the brother of actress Ione Skye. His parents separated when he was three and he was raised by his mother in the Hollywood Hills of California.[3] His father is Scottish, of partial Irish descent.[8] His mother was raised in The Bronx, New York City and is Jewish.[9][10]
He married Scottish model Kirsty Hume on September 23, 1997.[11] Their daughter, Violet Jean Leitch, was born March 21, 2004, at home in Los Angeles.[6][12]
Leitch and Hume separated in 2011, and Hume filed for divorce in summer 2014.[12][13]
Leitch proposed to actress Libby Mintz two months after Hume filed for divorce.[12] He and Mintz had a son, Donovan Evers Leitch, on April 14, 2015, and were married in a ceremony in Los Angeles on October 3, 2015.[14][12]
^"Ione Skye Interview". The Howard Stern Show (Interview). Interviewed by Ione Skye. May 9, 1999.
^Bloom, Nate (December 15, 2011). "Jewish Stars 12/16". Cleveland Jewish News. Donovan's former wife is an American Jew, and their daughter, actress Ione Skye ("Say Anything"), 41, was once Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz's wife.
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