Josh Duhamel: Snapshot
- Name
- Josh Duhamel
- Birth Date
- 11/14/1972
- Birth Place
- Minot, N.D.
But fame – and fiancée Fergie – probably wouldn't have come his way if things had gone according to Duhamel's original plan. He once aspired to play professional football but was told by two coaches that he wasn't good enough to make it. He has since made the jump to the big screen in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and 2007's summer blockbuster Transformers.
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Josh Duhamel: Five Fun Facts
- Josh Duhamel sported a mullet in high school. "It wasn't spiky on top, but it was definitely a mullet," he told PEOPLE. "At the time, I thought I was on the edge of fashion."
- Director Steven Spielberg has cast Josh Duhamel in two of his own projects: in the 2004 DreamWorks comedy Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and the 2007 blockbuster Transformers.
- Josh Duhamel took the title of 1997's Male Model of the Year, beating Ashton Kutcher in the International Modeling and Talent Association competition. "I felt like I won Miss America," he told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2007. "Of course, [Ashton] lost and went on to get a big Calvin Klein ad. I didn't do anything for three years. But that's just showbiz."
- Josh Duhamel can't wait to be a dad. "I want to have five boys," he told Redbook. "Like a little basketball team."
- Josh Duhamel's favorite song from Fergie's solo album is ''Mary Jane Shoes.'' He also thinks the best Black Eyed Peas song is ''Shut Up.''
Josh Duhamel: Biography 
- 1999
All My Children Alum
Duhamel plays the scheming Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children. After his last season in 2002, he wins a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. "To be honest, I worked my butt off," he tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- 2003
Primetime in Sin City
Duhamel is cast in the NBC series Las Vegas, a primetime drama about casino surveillance experts. He plays Danny McCoy, protégé of Sin City's top surveillance master Ed Deline played by James Caan. Despite the shows mediocre ratings, NBC keeps it on its Friday night schedule for more than four seasons. "Say what you want. The show is fun eye candy," Duhamel tells the Chicago Sun-Times. "People like Vegas. They like girls in tight dresses. That's why the series continues to go on."
- 2004
Hopping to the Big Screen
DreamWorks studio head Steven Spielberg casts Duhamel as the title character in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton opposite Kate Bosworth and Topher Grace. "When I first auditioned, they wanted the biggest of the big super movie star names to play this part," he tells WWD. "But then they either had to go with a big name, or they had to go with a nobody...And thank God they did that because I got to do it."
Photo Credits
Top Left: Frank Ockenfels
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Jeff Christensen/Landov; Everett Collection; Dreamworks
