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Curtis Donovan is a fictional character portrayed by Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in the TV series Misfits.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Episode #1.1 (season 1), they were 26 years old.
They appear in 25 episodes out of a total of 37 aired and have accumulated 20963 positive votes.
The character of Curtis Donovan is mainly associated with Nathan Young, Kelly Bailey and Alisha Daniels.

Curtis Donovan

by Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

character

Episodes25

  • 8.2
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    Episode #1.1

    episode S1.E1 july 2012
    Five young adolescents begin community service under the watchful eye of their probation officer when a freak storm strikes them, granting them supernatural abilities.
  • 8.2
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    Episode #1.2

    episode S1.E2 november 2009
    Nathan discovers that other people were affected by the storm and fears for his mother. Someone appears to know about the gang's secret agenda.
  • 7.8
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    Episode #1.3

    episode S1.E3 november 2009
    Alisha struggles to cope with her power when she grows closer to Curtis. Simon learns that the bodies may soon be discovered.
  • 8.5
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    Episode #1.4

    episode S1.E4 december 2009
    Curtis is reunited with his old girlfriend, and tries to set things right using his powers, with serious consequences.
  • 8.3
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    Episode #1.5

    episode S1.E5 december 2009
    Simon is torn when Sally starts seducing him to learn the truth about Tony. Nathan is obsessed with a lost child.
  • 8.7
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    Episode #1.6

    episode S1.E6 december 2009
    The gang realizes that there's something weird going on in town and it looks like the mysterious straight-laced "Virtue" organization is behind it.
  • 8.6
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    Episode #2.1

    episode S2.E1 november 2010
    Nathan, whose special power is immortality, has been buried alive but he is rescued after a mysterious masked and hooded figure sends Kelly a paper dart reading 'Go To His Grave'. Shaun, a new probation officer, laid back to the point of boredom, arrives and takes the group to help at an art therapy class for the emotionally disturbed where Simon meets Lucy, with whom he was once in a psychiatric unit. She is a shape-shifter, who morphs into each group member to tell them that Simon killed Sally, hoping he will be put back in the unit with her. However, since she loves him, she keeps his secret, though it is now common knowledge to the other misfits, who dump the corpse in the river, watched by the masked man.
  • 8.4
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    Episode #2.2

    episode S2.E2 november 2010
    Nathan is approached by the tattooed, denim-clad Jamie, who claims to be his half-brother, conceived out of wedlock. He has recently found out and, to punish their no-good father Mike, has him tied up in the boot of his car. After the boys retrieve the car which gets stolen and rescue their dad, Jamie and the misfits go to a club where pill-popping seems to reverse their powers and Curtis has a vision of a girl falling from a high roof. The mysterious hoodie reappears and Simon trails him to a flat block but when he and the others break in they find the girl who featured in Curtis's vision. Jamie has sex in a car with a girl whose super power is to turn things to ice but as a result of the reversal she causes herself and Jamie to combust. Nathan learns that his brother is dead. He can, however, still see him as if he were alive due to the change in his power.
  • 8.5
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    Episode #2.3

    episode S2.E3 november 2010
    The masked man saves Alisha from a mugging on the estate. It appears he is able to touch her without being affected by her powers.
  • 8.5
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    Episode #2.4

    episode S2.E4 december 2010
    Ollie, an environmental protester who has the power to teleport, starts his community service. But is he really destined to become part of the gang?
  • 8.2
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    Episode #2.5

    episode S2.E5 december 2010
    Having walked in on charity worker Jessica getting changed, Nathan finds that the lights have gone out and he has been 'killed' again. He and the other misfits are certain that the murderer is Jessica and attempt to warn Simon,who has become her boyfriend. Simon,however,is not convinced,despite the fact that another boy has been killed and his body disappeared. After Simon and Jessica have had sex he is subjected to a murderous attack but saved by Alisha. Curtis and Nikki also get it together whilst Kelly has a strange encounter with Bruno,who is not what he seems. However the gang of five and Nikki decide to celebrate their survival by having a drink on the roof of the centre.
  • 8.8
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    Episode #2.6

    episode S2.E6 december 2010
    Brian, another youngster hit by the storm, develops the power to control dairy products, and, to impress a would-be girlfriend, goes public with his special ability, being known as Milkman. This leads the misfits - despite reluctance from Simon - to also go public and, with a manager Laura to promote them, they become famous as the Asbo Five. Pushed onto the side-lines Milkman becomes murderously resentful and takes to killing innocent by-standers as well as setting a trap to put paid to his celebrity rivals. Curtis will have to bring his special powers into play to save his friends and return things to normal.
  • 8.1
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    Christmas Special

    episode S2.E7 december 2010
    The week before Christmas, and the gang see some graffiti that offers 'Money for Powers'. At the address advertised they meet Seth, a drug dealer who was also struck in the storm and now has the ability to deal powers. Also a man who can walk on water and claiming to be Jesus attracts the media and Simon vows to kill him.
  • 7.3
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    Episode #3.1

    episode S3.E1 october 2011
    Whilst Kelly has trouble convincing people of her new power, the skills of a rocket scientist and Curtis finds his new gift, the ability to change sex useful when pursued by the police, the group learns that Nathan has gone to Las Vegas to use his super-power to cheat the casinos. He is replaced in the team by ladies' man Rudy, an old flame of Alisha, who has the ability to twin himself - somewhat unwittingly - when stressed. This incurs the wrath of pick-up Tanya who believes he is two-timing her and who gets her revenge by killing Charlie, the girl she saw Rudy kissing, and framing him for the murder. Fortunately the second Rudy comes to the rescue after Tanya is accidentally killed and once more the misfits find themselves burying two bodies and hoping to get away with it.
  • 7.7
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    Episode #3.2

    episode S3.E2 november 2011
    Banned from athletics for drug use Curtis sees the opportunity to still compete as his new gender swap identity Melissa, whilst falling for fellow runner Emma. Emma is bi-sexual and is drawn to both Curtis and his alter ego Melissa but, with only Simon let into the secret, Curtis/Melissa becomes the reluctant object of the sexual attentions of Shaun, Rudy and running coach Mark, who spikes Melissa's drink at a party and tries to rape her, getting a rude shock when Curtis returns. Eventually Curtis is forced to admit the truth to the other misfits and, having saved her from Mark's predatory actions, to Emma.
  • 7.5
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    Episode #3.3

    episode S3.E3 november 2011
    In his alter ego as Super Hoodie Simon saves comic book fan Peter from a mugging. Later Peter recognizes his protector from his voice and the boys become friends, Simon explaining his destiny to become his future self by dying whilst saving Alisha. Peter, obsessed with his hero, uses his sinister gift to stop this - he draws cartoons in which the events come to pass in reality - and the pair have a climactic fight after Peter has abducted Alisha, though his comic strip reveals that he knew the outcome. Shaun meanwhile discovers Rudy's ability to clone himself whilst Kelly learns that Seth is still carrying a torch for the girlfriend whose death he caused when he was a drug dealer.
  • 7.3
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    Episode #3.4

    episode S3.E4 november 2011
    Elderly Jew Friedrich Hirsch travels back to 1930s Berlin to kill Hitler but fails and the Nazis use his mobile phone technology which alters history so Germany wins the war and present day Britain is under Nazi control, and none of the misfits know each other. Kelly and Simon are reluctant conscripts whilst Shaun, with Alisha, his unwilling girlfriend, is right hand man to odious Captain Smith. Seth, his ability to give and take super powers an asset to the Nazis, is imprisoned but Kelly and the other misfits spring him, leading to a shoot-out.
  • 7.2
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    Episode #3.5

    episode S3.E5 november 2011
    Kelly is accidentally body-swapped with a coma patient. Rudy gets anger management therapy.
  • 7.4
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    Episode #3.6

    episode S3.E6 december 2011
    After a one night stand Rudy loses his most prized possession and begs Simon for help to get it back. Curtis's power malfunctions, trapping him as Melissa.
  • 8
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    Episode #3.7

    episode S3.E7 december 2011
    Having relieved Curtis of the power to change sex Seth instils in him the power to reanimate the dead and bring his girlfriend back to life,as a result of which Seth dumps Kelly. After Curtis has brought back to life a dead cat which savages its owner the gang knows that something is wrong as the born again corpses have a taste for blood,attacking the living and turning them into rabid zombies,including a group of cheer leaders who are rehearsing in the Community Centre. Seth is forced to kill his girlfriend as she prepares to go for him,making him realise that he loves Kelly. Unfortunately the misfits have to kill the cheer-leaders to save themselves and,with them,yet another probation supervisor who was also infected.
  • 8.2
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    Episode #3.8

    episode S3.E8 december 2011
    The misfits have to face the ghosts of people they killed after a medium brought them back.
  • 7.1
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    Episode #4.1

    episode S4.E1 october 2012
    After Alisha was tragically murdered in last season's final episode, and Simon traveled back in time to when he sacrificed his life to save hers, Curtis and Rudy continue their community service. Seth returns to pick up Kelly's belongings, as they have decided to move to Africa after a visit where Kelly realized she could use her power to deconstruct land mines. Two new offenders join the community service team: Jess, who has X-ray vision, and Finn, who is a telekinetic. The new offenders quickly realize something is not right. Rudy, Curtis, and Seth (and eventually Jess and Finn), have been infected with some sort of virus after a badly hurt man, with a briefcase handcuffed to him, stumbles into the community center and collapses at their feet. The group becomes so obsessed with obtaining the briefcase, that they're ready to murder each other over it. Finally, as the group tries to get the briefcase from Finn on the roof, the hurt man lunges for it and falls to his death, ending the virus. The new probation officer finally arrives, and is creepy and, possibly psychotic. Finn goes home, and we see that he has a girl bound and gagged in his flat.
  • 6.8
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    Episode #4.2

    episode S4.E2 november 2012
    When the misfits model for a sculpture class for the blind, Curtis and Rudy both fall for student, Ally, but both are rejected as her guide dog picked up the power of telepathy in the storm, and is conveying their weaknesses to her. Rudy discovers Sadie tied up in Finn's flat and lets her go. Finn explains that following the storm, Sadie picked up the power to control him using violence, but he loves her and does not want to leave her, hence his actions. Sadie counters by saying that she was only curing his slobbishness. Seth agrees to take Sadie's power from her, but in doing so, splits the couple off as they fed off each other's bad points. Both homeless Finn and Rudy move into the Community Centre, where Curtis falls for alluring probation trainee Lola, and Jess is attracted to handsome barman, Alex.
  • 7.5
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    Episode #4.3

    episode S4.E3 november 2012
    Finn is confused when stepmother Lisa tries to seduce him and even more so when Mike,the man he believed was his father,says Finn is not his son after all. Curtis makes headway with Lola but Jess is annoyed when Alex ducks out of a date. A third Rudy,a violent criminal just out of jail,turns up,frightening the gang with his violent talk and taking over the other two Rudys. After he has got Jess to admit to an attempted suicide after a boy dumped her he attacks Greg but is himself killed by Jess in order to release the other Rudys.
  • 7.7
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    Episode #4.4

    episode S4.E4 november 2012
    Finn and Rudy have problems over sharing their illicit room in the centre but,after Rudy has been banished to a room full of slugs,decide they miss each other. Lola tells Curtis that ex-boyfriend Jake was violent to her and gives Curtis a gun to threaten him. During a fight the gun goes off,killing Jake but when Curtis discovers that Lola is an impostor he briefly resurrects him and learns that,due to the storm,Lola became a man-hater turning men against each other. However Jake must be killed again to prevent him becoming a zombie. Curtis locates Lola,who now has another boyfriend,whom she plans to use to destroy Curtis,aiming to kill them both and say they shot each other but after she has shot him Curtis briefly comes back to life as a zombie and kills her before shooting himself.

Best moments10

  • 7.7
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    83% of the votes

    Episode #4.4

    episode S4.E4 november 2012
    Finn and Rudy have problems over sharing their illicit room in the centre but,after Rudy has been banished to a room full of slugs,decide they miss each other. Lola tells Curtis that ex-boyfriend Jake was violent to her and gives Curtis a gun to threaten him. During a fight the gun goes off,killing Jake but when Curtis discovers that Lola is an impostor he briefly resurrects him and learns that,due to the storm,Lola became a man-hater turning men against each other. However Jake must be killed again to prevent him becoming a zombie. Curtis locates Lola,who now has another boyfriend,whom she plans to use to destroy Curtis,aiming to kill them both and say they shot each other but after she has shot him Curtis briefly comes back to life as a zombie and kills her before shooting himself.
  • 7.3
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    75% of the votes

    Episode #3.1

    episode S3.E1 october 2011
    Whilst Kelly has trouble convincing people of her new power, the skills of a rocket scientist and Curtis finds his new gift, the ability to change sex useful when pursued by the police, the group learns that Nathan has gone to Las Vegas to use his super-power to cheat the casinos. He is replaced in the team by ladies' man Rudy, an old flame of Alisha, who has the ability to twin himself - somewhat unwittingly - when stressed. This incurs the wrath of pick-up Tanya who believes he is two-timing her and who gets her revenge by killing Charlie, the girl she saw Rudy kissing, and framing him for the murder. Fortunately the second Rudy comes to the rescue after Tanya is accidentally killed and once more the misfits find themselves burying two bodies and hoping to get away with it.
  • 8.5
    /10
    74% of the votes

    Episode #1.4

    episode S1.E4 december 2009
    Curtis is reunited with his old girlfriend, and tries to set things right using his powers, with serious consequences.
  • 8.8
    /10
    8% of the votes

    Episode #2.6

    episode S2.E6 december 2010
    Brian, another youngster hit by the storm, develops the power to control dairy products, and, to impress a would-be girlfriend, goes public with his special ability, being known as Milkman. This leads the misfits - despite reluctance from Simon - to also go public and, with a manager Laura to promote them, they become famous as the Asbo Five. Pushed onto the side-lines Milkman becomes murderously resentful and takes to killing innocent by-standers as well as setting a trap to put paid to his celebrity rivals. Curtis will have to bring his special powers into play to save his friends and return things to normal.
  • 7.8
    /10
    5% of the votes

    Episode #1.3

    episode S1.E3 november 2009
    Alisha struggles to cope with her power when she grows closer to Curtis. Simon learns that the bodies may soon be discovered.
  • 7.2
    /10
    4% of the votes

    Episode #3.5

    episode S3.E5 november 2011
    Kelly is accidentally body-swapped with a coma patient. Rudy gets anger management therapy.
  • 8.2
    /10
    2% of the votes

    Episode #1.1

    episode S1.E1 july 2012
    Five young adolescents begin community service under the watchful eye of their probation officer when a freak storm strikes them, granting them supernatural abilities.
  • 7.4
    /10
    1% of the votes

    Episode #3.6

    episode S3.E6 december 2011
    After a one night stand Rudy loses his most prized possession and begs Simon for help to get it back. Curtis's power malfunctions, trapping him as Melissa.
  • 8.5
    /10
    1% of the votes

    Episode #2.4

    episode S2.E4 december 2010
    Ollie, an environmental protester who has the power to teleport, starts his community service. But is he really destined to become part of the gang?
  • 7.5
    /10
    1% of the votes

    Episode #4.3

    episode S4.E3 november 2012
    Finn is confused when stepmother Lisa tries to seduce him and even more so when Mike,the man he believed was his father,says Finn is not his son after all. Curtis makes headway with Lola but Jess is annoyed when Alex ducks out of a date. A third Rudy,a violent criminal just out of jail,turns up,frightening the gang with his violent talk and taking over the other two Rudys. After he has got Jess to admit to an attempted suicide after a boy dumped her he attacks Greg but is himself killed by Jess in order to release the other Rudys.

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