Logan Williams

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Logan Kari Williams (9 April 2003 – 2 April 2020) was a Canadian child actor, best known for playing young Barry Allen on The CW series The Flash.

Logan Kari Williams was born on 9 April 2003 in Vancouver, and raised in Coquitlam. He attended Hope Lutheran School and Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam.
He made his acting debut in 2014, appearing in television film The Color of Rain directed by Anne Wheeler on Hallmark Channel. In the same year, he was cast in his best known role as young Barry Allen on The CW series The Flash. He made 8 appearances total from season 1 to the premiere of season 2. For his performance, he was nominated as Best Emerging Performer in the 2015 UBCP/ACTRA Awards. He acted in Hallmark series When Calls the Heart and made appearances in The Whispers and Supernatural.
Williams had been discovered using marijuana by his mother Marlyse when he was 13 and, according to her, his drug addiction progressed since. He was sent to a treatment facility in the US, and in 2019, came under care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development of British Columbia. The coroner’s report later revealed that, in February 2020 during custody,…