Michael Reventar is a Canadian actor, composer, producer and writer based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for his gripping performance as the meta-human Farooq Gibran / Blackout in the CW series The Flash, and for his starring role in the film Kidnap Capital, which earned him a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Before pursuing acting, he spent a decade working with charitable organizations in inner-city Toronto, using his own life story as a troubled youth to help guide at-risk children, later studying under renowned acting coach David Rotenberg.