<Tr> <Th> Occupation (s) </Th> <Td> Host, actor, voice actor, singer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1996--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Donovan Patton (born March 1, 1978 at Agana Naval Air Station in Guam) is an American host, actor, voice actor, and singer . Patton graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and acted in Shakespeare plays such as Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet before he replaced Steve Burns as Joe, the new host of Nickelodeon's children's television program Blue's Clues in 2002 . On Patton's acting, series co-creator Angela Santomero stated that Patton brought Joe, his character, closer to the preschool viewer, as Joe was more willing to "jump into a problem rather than figure it out first like Steve". After Blue's Clues ended Patton voiced Bot on Nickelodeon's Team Umizoomi; for his work on children's television, Patton has been described as a "household name" and an "unqualified star to the 5 - and - under set and their parents". </P> <P> Although most of his career has been in children's television, Patton has also appeared in independent films, such as Awake and Lies I Told My Little Sister, and in television shows . </P>

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