His mother, Judi Davidson, is a partner in Davidson & Choy Publicity, an arts and entertainment public relations firm in Los Angeles. His father
Gordon Davidson, retired in 2005 as the artistic director of the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, which consists of the
Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theater and the
Kirk Douglas Theater. He also directed the Broadway productions of "Children of a Lesser God" and "The Shadow Box", for which he won Tony Awards.