Character

Donald "Donnie" Hendrix

Donald "Donnie" Hendrix in Orphan Black (2013), played by Kristian Bruun.

Donnie Hendrix is Alison's husband, a cheerful, slightly hapless suburban dad who sells essential oils and campaigns for school trustee with more enthusiasm than sense. He loves his wife without quite understanding her, tolerates her rigid rules and mounting anxieties, and drifts through his tidy domestic life oblivious to how strange it's about to become.

Kristian Bruun plays Donnie as pure comic relief at first—soft, eager, easily flustered—which makes him a perfect tonal counterweight to the show's tense clone conspiracy. But he commits fully to every indignity the writers hand him, and that fearless silliness earns him room to become something stranger and more affecting later.

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Orphan Black2013