Template:Actor Thomas Patrick "Tom" Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor. He portrays Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash, and various iterations of Harrison Wells as a series regular on The Flash. He also guest starred in the sixth season of Arrow, and in the third seasons of Supergirl and DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
Credits
The Flash
Actor
Director
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
- "What's Past is Prologue"
- "Elseworlds, Part 1" (opening scene, uncredited)
Superhero Fight Club shorts
Actor
Supergirl
Actor
Season 3
- "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1" Harrison "Harry" Wells and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (special guest star)
Season 5
- "The Wrath of Rama Khan" Harrison Nash Wells (uncredited)
Director
Season 4
- "Bunker Hill" (final scene)
Arrow
Actor
Season 6
- "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and Harrison "Harry" 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 "Harry" Wells (special guest star)
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: Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (disguised as Harrison Wells) since Season 1, Harrison Wells of Earth-1 in 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 and Harrison Sherloque Wells of Earth-221 in Season 5.
- Cavanagh also played Hannibal Bates/Everyman (disguised as Eobard Thawne) in "The Trap", Grodd (while he was controlling Earth-2 Wells) in "Attack on Gorilla City", and Iris West (disguised as Earth-19 Wells) in "Infantino Street" and "Finish Line".
- In the shared multiverse, 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.
External links
- Tom Cavanagh at the Internet Movie Database
- Follow Tom Cavanagh (@CavanaghTom) on Twitter