Stephen Amell's Cousin Robbie Amell Joins 'The Flash'

Many new additions have been being added to Arrow for season 3 and now we have an addition to the spinoff. Robbie Amell will be joining the cast as Ronnie Raymound, also known as Firestorm, and will have an important in how Barry Allen (played by Grant Gustin) becomes the Flash.

Keeping the family name in the business, Robbie Amell, cousin to Steve Amell who plays Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow in the Arrow hit show, will be a great addition to the cast. He had a short lived run on a previous show, The Tomorrow People, but I believe this role has his name all over it. He definitely has the heart to act in this role and he was born to play Firestorm

For the people who don't know, Firestorm was formed by the fusion of two people, a young high school student Ronnie Raymond and an award winning physicist Martin Stein, during a nuclear lab accident where Ronnie took over the controls with Martin being a small voice of reason in his head. They do change Ronnie's back story in the TV series, having him as a maintenence worker at STAR Labs with Caitlin Snow (played by Danielle Panabaker) as his fiance, but it shouldn't change much of the original story of Firestorm.

Source: Entertainment Weekly