“Burn Notice” star Jeffrey Donovan has no plans to return to Los Angeles.
In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 57-year-old actor talked about his move to Colorado after meeting his wife about one of his projects.
He says: “I met my future wife while I was working, and she was from Colorado, and once I started visiting there, I couldn’t stop,” he explained. “It’s an amazing state, and I’m raising my kids there, and we’re never going to leave.”
Donovan met his wife, Michelle Woods, in 2011, and the two got married a year later in August 2012 in a small ceremony in Santa Barbara, California.
Since their marriage, the couple have welcomed three children together: Claire, Lucas and Ethan. The actor and his wife are raising their children in Colorado, which he says is the true land of the sun, not Florida – which he said should be called “the land of thunder.”
“Colorado, secretly, is a sunny state,” he said. “It’s a nice part of the state that gets more sunlight than maybe Arizona and New Mexico.” It’s amazing. That’s why we exist. And it’s a very good life.”
The “Sicario” star shared that although she grew up in Boston, many of her friends now live in Los Angeles and are raising children there.
Although she misses her friends, she says they all agree that raising children is a “challenge,” and for her, being in Colorado makes it less so.
“I find it difficult in Colorado, which plays to my level of talent in raising children,” Donovan explained. If it’s not hard to raise kids in Colorado, that’s where I want to be.
The actor first gained national attention with his role in “Burn Notice” in 2007. He played Michael Westen in the show, a former CIA specialist who is not working to find out who was behind the burn notice and why, without his usual names or tools.
He starred in the show for seven seasons and went on to host other episodes.
“I feel very blessed with this program, but I also know that at the time it was the most difficult job until today that I have ever had,” he told Build in November 2017. “It was difficult, but when I look back I didn’t take that job, and I wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have met my future wife and had my three beautiful children.”
Donovan is currently starring in the three-episode series “The Faithful,” which tells the story of the Book of Genesis from the perspective of the five women at the center of those stories.
The show’s star Abraham, one of the Bible’s most prominent figures, told Fox News Digital that he thought taking part would be a “huge wind.”
“There’s a part in the first hour where I talk to God and Minnie [Driver] still playing Sarah and I, to be honest, I was lost. So I felt that pressure.”
He then thanked his teammate Driver for putting him in the right frame of mind, saying he “held me up” and told him he was “enough,” Donovan said, “It was powerful for me to feel that connection.”
When it came to portraying the marriage between Abraham and Sarah, Donovan said he “tried to look at it as realistically as possible,” and added that playing a couple who have been married for such a long time, confirmed to him that “marriage is difficult.”
“It is difficult, and if you and your partner, whoever it is, can reach an agreement that we are in it for the long term, that our children, if you are blessed enough to have children, are more important than you, and you put your eggs in that basket to go, ‘We are providers, we are their educators, and they learn humanity from us and your children,’ that’s good,” he said.
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