Colin Donnell is an American actor and singer. He was born on October 9, 1982, in St. Louis, Missouri. He played the guitar and took singing lessons when he was 17. His introduction to the stage was in high school where he was a part of the choir and was in the background juggling and doing circus tricks, which led to being part of his first school musical production of Barnum. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 2005.
Donnell is known for his performances as Tommy Merlyn in The CW superhero series Arrow (2012–2020), Scotty Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2015), Dr. Connor Rhodes in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med (2015–2019), and Paulo in the Netflix/Peacock drama Irreverent (2022). He is also known as Billy Crocker in the Broadway musical Anything Goes, and as Monty in the Broadway musical Violet.
