Colby Donaldson

Colby Donaldson (born April 1, 1974) is an American television actor, best known as the runner-up on Survivor: The Australian Outback. Donaldson was born in Christoval, Texas, and took a degree in business marketing at Texas Tech University, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the same fraternity chapter as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actor George Eads. He entered the reality television series Survivor: The Australian Outb... more

Colby Donaldson (born April 1, 1974) is an American television actor, best known as the runner-up on Survivor: The Australian Outback. Donaldson was born in Christoval, Texas, and took a degree in business marketing at Texas Tech University, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the same fraternity chapter as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actor George Eads. He entered the reality television series Survivor: The Australian Outback, in which he was the runner-up. He controversially, on a reward challenge, removed coral from the Great Barrier Reef. At the end of the competition, the dominant Colby made a move which most people considered to be a mistake in judgment, and which was widely believed to have cost him the competition. Donaldson won the final immunity challenge, giving him the choice of who he would rather face in the final vote, and passed up an opportunity to vote off Tina Wesson, who ultimately defeated him. Colby instead cast his vote for Keith Famie who... less