Donato portrayed the character Derek Haig on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Other roles include those in Doc, Locked in Silence, The Blue Butterfly, Avatar, the Last Airbender and other cartoon voices, recently as Ethan in The Future Is Wild. He also had small roles as Adam in Pay It Forward, Davey in White Oleander, and as a child in Adam Sandler's character's 1st grade class in Billy Madison, and starred in the thriller film The Final. His latest accomplishment was landing the role of Tarek in the live action feature film Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012), based on the best selling graphic novel of the same name. In 2013 he starred in Sick Boy starring with his real-life ex-girlfriend Skye McCole Bartusiak.
