jOsh DuHamEl

Joshua David "Josh" Duhamel (pronounced /dəˈmɛl/, də-mel; born November 14, 1972) is anAmerican actor and former fashion model. He first achieved acting success in 1999 as Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children and later as the chief of security, Danny McCoy, on NBC's Las Vegas. He is also well known for his role as one of the protagonists, Captain/Major William Lennox, in the box office hit Transformers as well as its sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. In 2004, before the Transformer days, he was the title character in Win A Date With Tad Hamilton

Duhamel was born in Minot, Nort

h Dakota, the son of

Bonnie L. Kemper, a physical education teacher, and Larry David Duhamel, an advertis

ing salesman.He has French ancestry , and

his surname is a comm

on French surname. His pare

nts divorced during

his youth, and although he re

mains close to both, he grew up

with his mother and his three younger sisters, Ashlee, Mckenzee and Kassidy. Duhamel attended Minot State University and played as the back-up quarterback for the university's football team. He planned to attend dental school^[4] but dropped ou

t one-and-a-half credits shy of his undergraduate degree

CareeR....

Duhamel has stated, "After college, I followed an ex-girlfriend to northern California, did a bunch of odd jobs." Duhamel had won the title of Male Model of the Year in an International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) competition in 1997 (the first runner-up was actorAshton Kutcher).

Duhamel began his acting career as an extra in the music videos for Donna Summer's song, "I Will Go With You (Con te partirò)" in 1998 andChristina Aguilera's song, "Genie in A Bottle" in 1999. Josh trained with Scott Sedita at Scott Sedita Acting Studios Later that year, he won the role of Leo du Pres on the ABC soap opera All My Chil

dren. His work on the show, especially his character's pairing withGreenlee Smythe (portrayed by actor Rebecca Budig), garnered critical acclaim In 2000, he posed fully nude for Greg Gorman's "As I See It" photography book. In 2003, he earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the Special Fan Award for America's Favorite Couple in 2002, shared with Budig, and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Leo du Pres.Duhamel opted to leave All My Children in 2002 to pursue other acting opportunities.in 2003, Duhamel landed a prime time role on the NBC show Las Vegas, playing the head of security as Danny McCoy for the Montecito Casino. He succeeded James Caan as president of the Montecito after Caan departed at the end of the fourth season. The series was cancelled in 2008.Duhamel made his big-screen acting debut in 2004's Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and continued on to star in the thriller Turistas (2006). After watching an episode of Las Vegas in which Duhamel's character had just returned from the war in Iraq, Steven Spielberg handpicked him for the role of Captain William Lennox in 2007's summer blockbuster film Transformers(a film for which Spielberg was the executive producer). Duhamel reprised the role for the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, released in June 2009, and again inTransformers: Dark of the Moon, due for release in July 2011.Duhamel was the official pace car driver for the 2009 Indianapolis 500 driving the 2010 Ch

evrolet Camaro Pace Car.Duhamel will star alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the Boaz Yakin thriller film Sympathy for the Devil. He also appeared in The Romanticsin 2010, alongside Katie Holmes, Adam Brody, and Australian actress Annabel-Jane Brooks.

PersOnal LifE...

Duhamel met and began dating Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson in September 2004.Ferguson, a singer for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, appeared on Duhamel's show Las Vegas with her band in an episode titled "Montecito Lancers" (which aired on November 1, 2004). The couple wed on January 10, 2009, in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu, California. On January 10, 2010, the couple renewed their wedding vows on a beach in Santa Barbara. Duhamel and Ferguson reside in Brentwood, California, in a hou

se that they purchased together in 2007. In 2005, Duhamel became the co-owner of 10 North Main, a restaurant located in the downtown section of Minot, North Dakota, which features dishes such as elk and pheasant