Vampire Diaries actor Rick Cosnett has come out as gay as he wants to ‘live my truth’. Cosnett is known for playing Wes Maxfield in The Vampire Diaries, Elias Harper in Quantico and Eddie Thawne in The Flash.
He is also a cousin of Hugh Grant. The Zimbabwean-Australian actor, aged 36, put a video on his Instagram announcing his sexuality. Rick Cosnett’s coming out message In the short video he simply says: ‘I am gay.