Colby Donaldson (born April 1, 1974) is an American television actor 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 was generally disliked and seen as less deserving to win the title of Sole Survivor.
Colby was chosen to participate in Survivor: All Stars, where he was on the Mogo Mogo tribe and was the 7th person voted out. At the Survivor: All Stars televised reunion Survivor: America's Tribal Council, Donaldson was voted by an online poll as the sexiest male castaway of all first 8 seasons. Donaldson is also known for his friendship with Survivor host Jeff Probst and their regular poker games.
After this brief stint on reality television, Donaldson turned to acting, appearing on such shows as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reba, several episodes of Joey, and Episode 118 ("The Man in the Morgue") of the Fox hit series, Bones (2005). He starred in several commercials as the spokesman for Schick razors, had a minor role as a secret service agent in Wes Craven's Red Eye (2005).
Colby appears on the The Rachael Ray Show as one of Rachael's "buddies."
