Actor Victor Garber – best known for his Emmy nominated role in Alias – has joined the cast of The Flash, with Variety announcing today that he will be playing Dr. Martin Stein.
“As one half of the Firestorm entity in the DC Comics universe, Martin Stein is described as a brilliant but arrogant nuclear physicist who has sacrificed everything, including a marriage, for his work in transmutation. After he discovers the particle accelerator fused him with the younger, more impulsive Ronnie Raymond (Robbie Amell), he races to find a way to separate the two before it’s too late.”
Firestorm has appeared in many animated DC television shows but this is the first time the character will appear in live action. Garber will first make is appearance as the character in episode 12.
Meanwhile, TV Line is reporting that Smash star Andy Mientus has also joined the cast and will play the openly gay villain Hartley Rathaway, a.k.a. The Pied Piper, “a bona fide genius who used to work at S.T.A.R. Labs until a falling out with his mentor, Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh). The particle accelerator robbed Hartley of his hearing, but inspired him to create a series of sonic weapons that he uses in an effort to punish Wells by destroying his new protege: The Flash.”
