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Joshua David Duhamel (born November 14, 1972) is an American actor and former fashion model. After various modeling work, he made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children and later starred as Danny McCoy on NBC's Las Vegas. Duhamel has ventured into film, appearing as one of the main protagonists in four of the Transformers films, most recently in the fifth entry, Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He has also appeared in When in Rome (2010), Life as We Know It (2010), New Year's Eve (2011), Safe Haven (2013), and You're Not You (2014). In 2015, Duhamel co-starred on the short-lived CBS crime drama Battle Creek. He has also starred in several video games, most notably Call of Duty: WWII (2017). In 2018, he appeared in the romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon. In 2021, Duhamel starred in the role of Sheldon Sampson in the Netflix superhero series Jupiter's Legacy.
Set centuries before Barry Allen becomes the Flash, the film follows Eobard Thawne, a brilliant but obsessive scientist who becomes the first being to master time travel and breach the multiverse using the Negative Speed Force. Long before the idea of “The Flash” exists, Thawne pushes beyond time itself, tearing open realities and exploring unstable universes purely to understand and control creation. His experiments trigger catastrophic ripple effects across the multiverse, drawing the attention of an alternate-reality Kid Flash (Wally West)—a hardened survivor whose world collapses as a direct consequence of Thawne’s actions. The two speedsters clash across fractured timelines and dying universes, not as hero versus villain, but as opposing philosophies: preservation versus domination. As Thawne continues his reckless exploration, he unknowingly plants the paradox seed that will one day lead to Barry Allen’s creation—making Thawne the indirect architect of his own future nemesis. By the end, Thawne embraces his destiny as a force beyond morality, setting the stage for his eventual obsession with the Flash, while cementing himself as the originator of multiversal chaos in the alternate multiversal dimensional reality (in DCEU)
