Tom Cavanagh

Tom Cavanagh
Information
Birthdate	October 26, 1963
Occupation	Actor Director
Character(s)	Harrison Wells Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (as Harrison Wells) Hannibal Bates (as Eobard Thawne/Harrison Wells) Grodd (via Harrison "Harry" Wells and Eobard Thawne) Iris West (as Harrison "H.R." Wells)
First medium	"Pilot"
Latest medium	"Timeless"
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Thomas Patrick "Tom" Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor and director. He has portrayed Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and various iterations of Harrison Wells 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".

Credits

The Flash

Actor

Season 1 "Pilot" Harrison Wells "Fastest Man Alive" Harrison Wells "Things You Can't Outrun" Harrison Wells "Going Rogue" Harrison Wells "Plastique" Harrison Wells "The Flash is Born" Harrison Wells "Power Outage" Harrison Wells "Flash vs. Arrow" Harrison Wells "The Man in the Yellow Suit" Harrison Wells "Revenge of the Rogues" Harrison Wells "The Sound and the Fury" Harrison Wells "Crazy for You" Harrison Wells "The Nuclear Man" Harrison Wells "Fallout" Harrison Wells "Out of Time" Harrison Wells "Rogue Time" Harrison Wells "Tricksters" Harrison Wells "All Star Team Up" Harrison Wells "Who is Harrison Wells?" Harrison Wells "The Trap" Harrison Wells "Grodd Lives" Harrison Wells "Rogue Air" Harrison Wells "Fast Enough" Harrison Wells Season 2 "The Man Who Saved Central City" Harrison Wells "Flash of Two Worlds" Harrison Wells "Family of Rogues" Harrison Wells "The Fury of Firestorm" Harrison Wells "The Darkness and the Light" Harrison Wells "Enter Zoom" Harrison Wells "Gorilla Warfare" Harrison Wells "Legends of Today" Harrison Wells "Running to Stand Still" Harrison Wells "Potential Energy" Harrison Wells "The Reverse-Flash Returns" Harrison Wells "Fast Lane" Harrison Wells "Welcome to Earth-2" Harrison Wells "Escape from Earth-2" Harrison Wells "King Shark" Harrison Wells "Trajectory" Harrison Wells "Flash Back" Harrison Wells "Versus Zoom" Harrison Wells "Back to Normal" Harrison Wells "Rupture" Harrison Wells "The Runaway Dinosaur" Harrison Wells "Invincible" Harrison Wells "The Race of His Life" Harrison Wells Season 3 "Flashpoint" Harrison Wells "Paradox" Harrison Wells "Magenta" Harrison Wells "The New Rogues" Harrison Wells "Monster" Harrison Wells "Shade" Harrison Wells "Killer Frost" Harrison Wells "Invasion!" Harrison Wells "The Present" Harrison Wells "Borrowing Problems from the Future" Harrison Wells "Dead or Alive" Harrison Wells "Untouchable" Harrison Wells "Attack on Gorilla City" Harrison Wells "Attack on Central City" Harrison Wells "The Wrath of Savitar" Harrison Wells "Into the Speed Force" Harrison Wells "Duet" Harrison Wells "Abra Kadabra" Harrison Wells "The Once and Future Flash" Harrison Wells "I Know Who You Are" Harrison Wells "Cause and Effect" Harrison Wells "Infantino Street" Harrison Wells "Finish Line" Harrison Wells Season 4 "The Flash Reborn" Harrison Wells "Mixed Signals" Harrison Wells "Luck Be a Lady" Harrison Wells "Elongated Journey Into Night" Harrison Wells "Girls Night Out" Harrison Wells "When Harry Met Harry..." Harrison Wells "Therefore I Am" Harrison Wells "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3" Harrison Wells "Don't Run" Harrison Wells "The Trial of The Flash" Harrison Wells "The Elongated Knight Rises" Harrison Wells "Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash" Harrison Wells "True Colors" Harrison Wells "Subject 9" Harrison Wells "Enter Flashtime" Harrison Wells "Run, Iris, Run" Harrison Wells "Null and Annoyed" Harrison Wells "Lose Yourself" Harrison Wells "Fury Rogue" Harrison Wells "Therefore She Is" Harrison Wells "Harry and the Harrisons" Harrison Wells "Think Fast" Harrison Wells "We Are The Flash" Harrison Wells Season 5 "Nora" Harrison Wells "Blocked" Harrison Wells "The Death of Vibe" Harrison Wells "News Flash" Harrison Wells "All Doll'd Up" Harrison Wells "The Icicle Cometh" Harrison Wells "O Come, All Ye Thankful" Harrison Wells "What's Past is Prologue" Harrison Wells "Elseworlds, Part 1" Harrison Wells "The Flash & The Furious" Harrison Wells "Seeing Red" Harrison Wells "Memorabilia" Harrison Wells "Goldfaced" Harrison Wells "Cause and XS" Harrison Wells "King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd" Harrison Wells "Failure is an Orphan" Harrison Wells "Time Bomb" Harrison Wells "Godspeed" Harrison Wells "Snow Pack" Harrison Wells "Gone Rogue" Harrison Wells "The Girl With The Red Lightning" Harrison Wells "Legacy" Harrison Wells Season 6 "Into the Void" Harrison Wells "A Flash of the Lightning" Harrison Wells "Dead Man Running" Harrison Wells "There Will Be Blood" Harrison Wells "Kiss Kiss Breach Breach" Harrison Wells "License to Elongate" Harrison Wells "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 1" Harrison Wells "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2" Harrison Wells "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" Harrison Wells/Pariah "Marathon" Harrison Wells "Love Is A Battlefield" Harrison Wells "A Girl Named Sue" Harrison Wells "Grodd Friended Me" Harrison Wells "Death of the Speed Force" Harrison Wells "The Exorcism of Nash Wells" Harrison Wells "So Long and Goodnight" Harrison Wells "Liberation" Harrison Wells "Pay the Piper" Harrison Wells "Success Is Assured" Harrison Wells Season 7 "All's Wells That Ends Wells" Harrison Wells "The Speed of Thought" Harrison Wells "Mother" Harrison Wells "Timeless" Harrison Wells (special guest star)

Directed by

Season 3

• "The Once and Future Flash"

Season 4

• "Elongated Journey Into Night"

Season 5

• "What's Past is Prologue"
• "Elseworlds, Part 1" (opening scene; uncredited)

Superhero Fight Club shorts

Actor

• Superhero Fight Club Harrison Wells/Reverse-Flash  

Supergirl

Actor

Season 3

• "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1" Harrison 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)

Arrow

Actor

Season 6

• "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and Harrison Wells (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

• "Unmasked" (final scene)

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Actor

Season 3

• "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 4" Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and Harrison Wells (special guest star)

Season 5

• "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" Harrison Nash Wells/Pariah

Batwoman

Actor

Season 1

• "A Mad Tea-Party" Harrison Nash Wells (uncredited)

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 and 7, 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 Earth-19 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".
  • 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", every episode after with "Mother".
• His departure from The Flash was his decision, as he felt his role in the show had run its course.