(This entry features links to several YouTube videos and other video websites. While they were all active at the time of writing, I cannot promise that they'll be valid in the future.)
As tonight's episode of The Flash—"Luck Be A Lady"—finished, we saw the preview for next week's episode, "Elongated Journey Into Night," which features Hartley Sawyer as Ralph Dibny.
This will be the first time the Elongated Man has appeared in an official live action production, and the first time the character has been a featured player outside of the comics.
Hartley's been in show business for awhile, but is likely not a name you'd recognize. He's had guest spots in TV shows and featured in webseries.
This website has some information on Hartley's early days, but might be suspect. (It and his Wikipedia page give two different dates for his birthday, which is January 25, 1985.) It says he grew up on a farm in New York and featured in some high school plays before attending Boston's Emerson College. He moved to Los Angeles in 2007.
His "big break" was the 2011 TBS comedy Glory Daze, where he played college student Brian Sommers. Glory Daze featured the misadventures of newcomers to a college fraternity in 1986. It ran for only ten episodes.
On television, he had fun guest roles on Don't Trust the B---- In Apartment 23 as Charles the Soy Latte Guy, Brad the model on Jane By Design, a handful of appearances as Peacham Bozeman on GCB, and an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. He also had a run on classic soap opera The Young and the Restless as Kyle Abbott, taking over from Blake Hood. After eight months, he was let go from the role.
Internet media has been far kinder to Mr. Sawyer, featuring in several webseries. Highly recommended is Geek and Sundry's Caper, in which he plays Dagr, a superhero from a dimension where "Vikings never stopped being a thing." He also featured in his own Courageous Heroes in which he talks to self-made people who made their own way in their respective fields. He also played Jonesy in CW Seed's Saving the Human Race, a cyborg helping one of the last humans find a mate to "mate" with. Finally, he plays Laheer in Go90's Miss 2059, an announcer for an intergalactic battle with more at stake than meets the eye. Also, don't miss him in the short drama film SPiN where he plays a young Wall Street hotshot.
In addition, Hartley is a vegan and owner of two rescue dogs, advocating for rescuing dogs as well as proper care for them. He can be followed on Instagram and Twitter.
Join us next week for a review of "Elongated Journey Into Night" and Hartley's first outing as Ralph Dibny.
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