Nothing But Nets

Tom & Maureen Cavanagh

Tom and Maureen Cavanagh are huge Nothing But Nets supporters, and they're kicking off their involvement with a celebrity basketball game at Harlem's Holcombe Rucker Park, featuring the MagicMasters basketball team, neighborhood streetballers and lots of friends and Netraisers! 

Tom Cavanagh
Actor, Producer, Director

Thomas Cavanagh was born in Ottawa, Ontario. When Tom was six, he and his family moved to Ghana, where his father educated local school teachers. During this time in West Africa, Tom contracted malaria. Though he successfully combated the disease, the experience motivated him to get involved and devote much of his time to charitable initiatives like the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, which raises funds and awareness to prevent malaria in Africa – where the disease is still a leading killer of young children.

Tom’s family moved back to Canada before Tom started high school in southern Quebec. Tom attended Queens University in Kingston, Ontario where he played ice hockey and basketball, and graduated with degrees in English, Biology, and Education. In 1989, Tom made his debut on Broadway in the revival musical Shenandoah. His stage credits also include productions of Grease, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Urinetown. Most recently, Tom starred in the play Some Americans Abroad, which ran throughout the summer of 2008 in New York City.

In 1999, Tom moved to Los Angeles, where he landed a role in the Primetime Emmy-winning series, “Providence”.  He went on to act in a number of movies and television shows, including a starring role on the award-winning NBC series "Ed", in which he not only starred, but also produced and directed a number of episodes.  His performance in the show won him the 2001 TV GUIDE Award for Actor of the Year, and also earned him a Golden Globe nomination in 2002. 

Soon after, Tom played the lead role in the big-screen drama Bang, Bang, You're Dead, which won a Peabody Award in 2002.  In 2006, Cavanagh starred in the romantic comedy Gray Matters, and played a supporting role in the family film How to Eat Fried Worms.  During that time, Tom took on a recurring role in the medical comedy series “Scrubs”, playing Dan Dorian, the brother of lead character J.D. (Zach Braff).

Cavanagh also headlined in the 2006 prime-time drama “Love Monkey”, and the Canadian comedy film “Breakfast With Scot” - due out in the States later this year. Since, he has guest-starred on the comedy-drama “Eli Stone”, and can be seen opposite Eric McCormack in an upcoming series for TNT, slated to begin shooting in September 2008. Cavanagh has also just finished directing a short film in New York City about a female playground basketball hustler. Cavanagh resides in New York with his wife, Maureen, and their two children.

Maureen Cavanagh
Deputy Picture Editor
Sports Illustrated

Maureen Cavanagh has worked in the photography department of Sports Illustrated magazine since 1993. In her most recent role as deputy picture editor she was in charge of feature photography, handling large stories and cover shoots with athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Michael Jordan and Derek Jeter.

She graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Photojournalism and then received her Masters in Journalism at Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 1997.  She is the recipient of two Picture of the Year Awards; one in 1998 for her editorial coverage of Mark McGwire’s homerun record season and one in 2005 for a story she produced on Loyalty in Team Sports.

Her work as a photographer has been published in several newspapers, magazines and books, including; “The Same River Twice; A Season with the UCONN Women’s Basketball Team” published in 2001.   

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