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Tom Cavanagh Biography

Tom Cavanagh is a Canadian actor and director. He is best known for playing various roles on American television including, Ed (2000-2004), Love Monkey (2006), Trust Me (2009), recurring roles on Providence, Scrubs and mostly for starring on The CW television series The Flash, as Harrison Wells.

Tom Cavanagh Age

Cavanagh was born on October 26, 1963, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is 55 years old as of 2018.

Tom Cavanagh Family

Cavanagh parents were Rosemary and Thomas Cavanagh who were Roman Catholics and worked as teachers in developing countries. He was raised alongside his siblings, three sisters and one elder brother.

Tom Cavanagh Wife

Cavanagh married his wife Maureen Grise on July 31, 2004, in a Catholic ceremony on Nantucket, Massachusetts. Grise is an image editor for Sports Illustrated. The couple have four children, two daughters, and two sons.

Tom Cavanagh Children

Cavanagh and his wife Grise have four children, Katie Cavanagh (daughter), Alice Ann Cavanagh (daughter), James Joseph Cavanagh (son) and Thomas Cavanagh Jr.(son).

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Cavanagh has acted in his native Canada for several years, appearing on television dramas such as Jake and the Kid in the late 1990s, and television commercials, appearing for Labatt Blue Light beer commercials in the 1990s and for CIBC.

In 1989, he was cast in the Broadway revival of Shenandoah. Other stage credits include productions of A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Urinetown and Grease. In 2008, he appeared in the production of Some Americans Abroad at Second Stage Theatre in New York City.

After being noticed for his recurring role as Dog Boy in the NBC television program Providence, Cavanagh was cast as the title character in the NBC program Ed. He received a Golden Globe nomination and a TV Guide Award for his work on Ed. This ran for four seasons beginning in October 2000 and concluding in February 2004.

Cavanagh first guest starred on the sitcom Scrubs in 2002 (“My Big Brother”) where he portrayed Dan Dorian, the brother of lead character J.D., because of his resemblance to Zach Braff. He returned for one episode in 2003 (“My Brother, Where Art Thou?”), for a two-episode arc in 2004 (“My Cake” and “My Common Enemy”), for one episode in April 2006 (“My New Suit”) and then on November 8, 2007 (“My Inconvenient Truth”). He played the role for one last time in Braff’s final episode as a series regular, the eighth season finale (“My Finale”).

In films, Cavanagh has starred in the 2002 film Bang Bang You’re Dead. Prior to Ed, his film appearances were mainly in supporting roles. After that series ended, he had his first starring role as an escaped convict in the thriller Heart of the Storm. In 2005, he starred in a romantic comedy Alchemy, alongside Sarah Chalke; in 2006, he appeared in another romantic comedy, Gray Matters.

In 2006, Cavanagh started filming Breakfast with Scot, in which he plays a gay retired hockey player who becomes an adoptive father to a young boy. The film was released in 2007, and drew attention as the first gay-themed film ever to win approval from a major league sports franchise to use its real name and logo; Cavanagh’s character formerly played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 2007, he starred in the second installment of the direct-to-DVD Raw Feed horror film series from Warner Home Video, Sublime. He starred as Ranger Smith in the feature film Yogi Bear (2010).

In 2005, Cavanagh filmed a pilot, Love Monkey, with Jason Priestley, Judy Greer, and Larenz Tate. The show was selected by CBS as a midseason replacement and premiered on January 17, 2006. Love Monkey was given an eight-episode order, but only three aired on CBS before the show was placed on indefinite hiatus due to low ratings. VH1 bought all eight episodes and played them in their entirety in the spring of 2006.

He also starred in the Lifetime Movie Network television miniseries The Capture Of The Green River Killer in which he portrayed King County Sheriff David Reichert. In March 2006, Cavanagh filmed My Ex-Life, a comedy pilot for CBS that is about a divorced couple who remain friends. The pilot featured Lost actress Cynthia Watros as his ex-wife. CBS did not select the show for its fall 2006 schedule. Cavanagh portrayed the lead role Nick Snowden (the heir to the Santa Claus identity) in the made-for-TV movie Snow in 2005, which is shown annually on the Family Channel.

In 2008, he appeared in the short-lived ABC series Eli Stone, playing as the father of the title character. From January through April 2009, Cavanagh starred in the television drama Trust Me, co-starring Eric McCormack, which aired weekly on TNT, until the network canceled it due to low ratings.

Cavanagh hosted Stories from the Vaults on Smithsonian Networks from 2008 to 2009. He made a guest appearance in the mid-season premiere of the USA Network show Royal Pains as a former professional golfer Jack O’Malley, and in 2012, he appeared in Lifetime’s A Killer Among Us.

Since 2014, he has been a series regular on The CW’s live-action television series The Flash, portraying the various doppelgängers of Harrison Wells. His first character on the show is Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash (in the form of Earth-1’s deceased Wells), a role Cavanagh has played since season one. Throughout subsequent seasons, he would also play “Harry” Wells of Earth-2 since season two, and “H.R.” Wells of Earth-19 in season three. Also in season three, he played three other doppelgängers (a British-accented steampunk from Earth-17, a hillbilly from an unnamed Earth, and a French-speaking mime from another unnamed Earth) as cameos, and made his directorial debut with the season three episode “The Once and Future Flash”.

In season four, Cavanagh briefly portrayed six additional doppelgängers of Wells (Harrison Wolfgang Wells of Earth-12, H. Lothario Wells of Earth-47, the cyborg Wells 2.0 of Earth-22, the wizard Wells the Grey from Earth-13, Sonny Wells of Earth-24, and H.P. Wells of Earth-25. In season five, he appears as detective Sherloque Wells.

Tom Cavanagh Net Worth

His net worth is estimated to around 4 US million dollars.

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