Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1968) is a Canadian actor best known as the protagonist and title character in the television program Ed as well as for his recurring role on Providence.

Cavanagh has received a Golden Globe nomination and a TV Guide Award for his work on Ed. In 2002, he starred in Showtime's Bang Bang You're Dead , which won a Peabody Award.

He was born in Ottawa, and moved with his parents to a small village in Ghana when he was six. In his teens, the family moved to Montreal, where he started high school. Attending Queen's University in Ontario, he became interested in theater and music and played ice hockey and basketball.

In 1989 he was cast in a Broadway revival of Shenandoah . His stage credits also include productions of Grease, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Brighton Beach Memoirs , and Urinetown.

He has been long known in Canada as an actor in television commercials, appearing for Labatt in the 1990s and currently for CIBC.

In 2002, Cavanagh guest starred on Scrubs. He was hired to play Dan Dorian, the brother of J.D. (Zach Braff) because of his uncanny resemblance to Braff. Cavanagh returned for an episode in 2003, and more episodes in 2004.

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• Playbill biography