How Did Barry Allen Get Powers?

Barry Allen gains his powers after getting frustrated and throwing a small machine at the window of his lab. The machine broke through the window, leaving a hole big enough for a bolt of lightning to charge through the hole and strike him.

Thomas Grant Gustin popularly known as Barry Allen is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in The Flash on The CW series The Flash as part of the Arrowverse television franchise, and as Sebastian Smythe on the Fox series Glee.

He was born on January 14, 1990, in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the son of Tina Haney, a pediatric nurse, and Thomas Gustin, a college professor.

Gustin’s first known screen role came while he was still in high school in the film Rain (2004). In this student film, by director/producer Neil Grochmal, during his studies at Regent University.

On November 8, 2011, he debuted on the television series Glee as Sebastian Smythe, an openly gay member of the Dalton Academy Warblers. Gustin won the recurring role of Sebastian, a promiscuous and scheming character, after “an exhaustive, weeks-long casting search”.

On March 30, 2016, it was announced that Gustin would star in William H. Macy’s film Krystal. The film premiered in 2017 at the Virginia Film Festival, and was released on April 13, 2018, by Great Point Media and Paladin In March 2020, Gustin was cast in Operation Blue Eyes as Barry Keenan.