Josh Duhamel Trivia | 30 facts about the actor

Josh Duhamel is a famous American actor. He has ventured into film, appearing as one of the main protagonists in four of the Transformers films.

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1. His full name is Joshua David Duhamel.
2. He was born on November 14, 1972.
3. His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
4. He is an American actor.
5. He started working as a model.
6. After a various modeling work, he made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children.
7. He later starred as Danny McCoy on NBC’s Las Vegas.
8. Josh 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).
9. 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).
10. In 2015, Josh Duhamel co-starred on the short-lived CBS crime drama Battle Creek.
11. He has also starred in several video games, most notably Call of Duty: WWII (2017).
12. In 2018, he appeared in the coming of age film Love, Simon.
13. In 2021, Duhamel starred in the role of Sheldon Sampson in the Netflix superhero series Jupiter’s Legacy.
14. He also played the role of Jacob Lee in the 2022 survival horror game The Callisto Protocol.
15. Received his Bachelor of Science Degree in biology at Minot State University.
16. Married longtime fiancée Fergie in a very private ceremony.
17. The ceremony was so private that the guests were not even told the location until the actual morning of the wedding.
18. Has a son: Axl Jack Duhamel (b. August 29, 2013) with ex-wife, Fergie.
19. Won the IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association) Male Model of the Year Award in 1997. Other models were Ashton Kutcher and Riley Smith.
20. In 1998, he was slowly in the works to make his acting debut in the lead role for a situation comedy entitled “A Tale of Two Strippers”; which told the story of two male exotic dancers in Las Vegas who find themselves trying to evade a hit man after witnessing an arranged murder when they get an address mixed up and arrive to the wrong location to perform a private gig. The project was written and was to be directed by Alan J. Pakula but he died in an automobile accident before anything could start so the project was immediately canceled. Had this gone through, this would have also marked the debut of actor Ashton Kutcher who was to star alongside him as the second male lead.
21. Josh Duhamel wanted to be a dentist from the time he was a sophomore in high school.
22. He gave up his dream to become a dentist when his grades were not good enough to get in a dental college. As a result, he moved to California where he got discovered while posing for fashion magazines.
23. Branched into entrepreneurship, opening a restaurant, 10 North Main, in his hometown Minot, North Dakota with his friend.
24. His ancestry is about half German, as well as one eighth Norwegian, one sixteenth French-Canadian, and small amounts of English, Irish, and Austrian. His surname is a common French last name, meaning “from the hamlet”.
25. When he was a teenager, he worked as a lifeguard at a local pool.
26. Former bath attendant.
27. Named one of People (USA) magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2004).
28. Turned down the role of Dusty Donovan on As the World Turns (1956) in 2002, saying that he would return to daytime only on All My Children (1970).
29. Spent his honeymoon with a week at the One & Only Reethi Rah in the Maldives, followed immediately afterwords with a week at the One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. (January 2009)
30. Shares the same middle name as his father