Thomas Patrick "Tom" Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor and director. He portrayed Harrison Wells and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash in The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman.
He directed "The Once and Future Flash", "Elongated Journey Into Night" and "What's Past is Prologue", whose final scene was also used as the final scene in "Bunker Hill" and "Unmasked" and the opening of "Elseworlds, Part 1".[1] He also directed "Last Sons of Krypton" and "Closer", the first season finale and the third season premiere of Superman & Lois respectively.
He is set to portray an unknown new character based on DC comics in the fourth season of Superman & Lois.
Credits
The Flash
Actor
Directed by
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
- "What's Past is Prologue"
- "Elseworlds, Part 1" (opening scene; uncredited) [1]
Voice actor
Season 5
Season 7
- "Fear Me" Reverse-Flash (archive audio)
Superhero Fight Club shorts
Actor
Supergirl
Actor
Season 3
- "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1" Harry Wells and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (special guest star)
Season 5
- "The Wrath of Rama Khan" Harrison Nash Wells (uncredited)
- "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One" Pariah
Director
Season 4
- "Bunker Hill" (final scene) [1]
Arrow
Actor
Season 6
- "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" Harrison "Harry" Wells and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (special guest star)
Season 7
- "Elseworlds, Part 2" Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (special guest star)
Season 8
- "Purgatory" Harrison Nash Wells (uncredited)
Director
Season 7
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Actor
Season 3
- "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 4" Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and Harry Wells (special guest star)
Season 5
Batwoman
Actor
Season 1
- "A Mad Tea-Party" Harrison Nash Wells (uncredited)
Superman and Lois
Director
Season 1
Season 3
- "Closer"
Actor
Season 4
- "It Went By So Fast" TBA [2]
Trivia
- In comparison to the other series regulars on The Flash and the Arrowverse, Cavanagh has portrayed the most alternate versions of a character.
- Cavanagh has played multiple versions of Dr. Harrison Wells: Harrison Wells of Earth-1 in Seasons 1, 7 and 9, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (disguised as Harrison Wells) since Season 1, Harrison "Harry" Wells of Earth-2 since Season 2, Harrison "H.R." Wells of Earth-19 in Season 3, every member of the Council of Wells and the Council of Harrisons in Season 4, Harrison Sherloque Wells of Earth-221 since Season 5 and Harrison Nash Wells/Pariah from an unknown earth in Season 6.
- Cavanagh also played Hannibal Bates/Everyman (disguised as Eobard Thawne) in "The Trap", three other versions of Wells in "The New Rogues", Grodd (while controlling Earth-2 Wells and impersonating Eobard Thawne respectively) in "Attack on Gorilla City" and "Grodd Friended Me", and Iris West (disguised as HR Wells) in "Infantino Street" and "Finish Line".
- In the Arrowverse, Tom Cavanagh, Matt Letscher, and Victor Garber portray Professor Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash; Cavanagh portrays the character disguised as Harrison Wells throughout The Flash, Letscher played the character's original likeness on 5 episodes of The Flash and in DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 2, and Garber briefly plays him disguised as Martin Stein in "The Chicago Way". The three actors previously have played roles on Eli Stone; Cavanagh portrayed the title character's father, Letscher played Eli's brother and Garber played his boss.
- Tom Cavanagh is tied with David Harewood for having directed the most episodes of their respective shows, The Flash, and Supergirl, with a total of three: "The Once and Future Flash"; "Elongated Journey Into Night"; and the 100th episode, "What's Past is Prologue".
- Since Season 3 he has been absent in every of the first 2 episodes of every season ("Flashpoint", "Paradox", "The Flash Reborn", "Mixed Signals", "Nora", "Blocked", "Into the Void" and "A Flash of the Lightning").
- However, this trend was broken in Season 7 with "All's Wells That Ends Wells".
- He does appear in archive footage as Eobard Thawne in "Flashpoint", "Nora" and "Blocked" and as Harry Wells in "The Flash Reborn".
- His only absences that aren't a part of the first 2 episodes of a season are "True Colors"; and, with the exception of "Timeless", "Heart of the Matter, Part 2", and archive audio and footage in "Fear Me" and "Good-Bye Vibrations", every episode in Season 7 after "Mother", and Season 8, with the exception of "Armageddon, Part 3", "Armageddon, Part 4", "Armageddon, Part 5", "Keep It Dark", "The Man in the Yellow Tie", "Negative, Part One" and "Negative, Part Two".
- Cavanagh reprised his role of Eobard Thawne as Wells in the show Robot Chicken, voicing his character in the episode "Ants on a Hamburger".
- Cavanagh's departure from The Flash was his decision, as he felt his role in the show had run its course.[3]
- Cavanagh and Kimberly Williams-Paisley also starred in the Darrow & Darrow series.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "DC Daily Ep.63: Exclusive interview with CW ELSEWORLDS crossover star, LaMonica Garrett" - Facebook
- ↑ https://tvline.com/casting-news/superman-and-lois-season-4-tom-cavanagh-the-flash-crossover-1235232944/
- ↑ "The Flash star Tom Cavanagh discusses his exit from the CW superhero drama" - EW