Tom Cavanagh Biography

Fast Facts

• Spent part of his childhood in a Ghana fishing village, where his parents helped build an education system
• Earned three degrees, in English, biology and education, from Queens University; worked as a teacher before his acting career took off
• Won a 2001 TV GUIDE Award for Actor of the Year in a New Series for Ed
• Bearing a striking resemblance to actor Zach Braff, he played his older brother in a recurring role on Scrubs
• In 2008, played a professor in an off-Broadway production of the play Some Americans Abroad
• Starred as a detective in The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008), Lifetime's first original miniseries
• In 2009, paired with Eric McCormack to headline TNT's short-lived drama series Trust Me