Blaine Anderson was a student at the all-male Dalton Academy and leader of their glee club, the Warblers. As the club's star, he performed all of the solos in songs chosen by the show choir's committee.
He first met Kurt when the New Directions member visited Dalton to spy on their rehearsals. But Blaine immediately made Kurt feel welcome and explained that while he's gay, not all the students there are. The school does, however, have a zero tolerance policy toward bullying.
When Kurt said that he was being harassed by football player Dave Karofsky, Blaine helped his new friend confront his abuser. But the bullying escalated, and Kurt decided to transfer to Dalton and to become Blaine's classmate and join the Warblers.
Blaine took Kurt under his wing and showed him the ropes in the Dalton glee club. Backed by the show choir, Blaine sang the lead vocals on "Hey, Soul Sister" at sectionals, where they competed against McKinley High's New Directions. The two schools tied for first place and both moved on to regionals.
While Blaine and Kurt grew closer, it became clear to Kurt that they were just good friends. The status of the relationship was solidified when Blaine asked Kurt and the Warblers to help him serenade his new crush, who worked at the Gap. When the boy rejected him, Blaine turned to Kurt, who admitted that he was hoping Blaine would have wanted to serenade him. Blaine said he's clueless about romance, since he he'd never had a boyfriend.
Blaine went to a party at Rachel's, where all the kids got drunk and played spin the bottle. An inebriated Blaine ended up kissing Rachel and liked it, leading him to question his sexuality. He agreed to go on a date with her to determine if perhaps he's bisexual, but the date did not end in a kiss. The next day, Rachel approached a sober Blaine in the coffee shop and planted one on him, confirming to him that he's 100 percent gay.
In preparing for regionals Kurt confronted Blaine about how unfair it was that he always sang the leads, calling the Warblers "Blaine and the Pips." Blaine acknowledged that the group must expand their horizons if they were going to win regionals, and he asked Kurt to duet with him. While rehearsing, the emotional lyrics of the song prompted the pair to kiss for the first time. After they lost the competition, they both admitted to feeling as though they still won by finding each other.
Kurt transferred back to McKinley High, and Blaine knew that while he would still see Kurt all the time, the Warblers would not. So the group sang "Somewhere Only We Know" as a goodbye to their friend.
When Kurt invited Blaine to go to prom as his date, Blaine confessed that at his last school he asked another boy to the Sadie Hawkins dance and was beaten up by a bunch of bullies. But he reluctantly agreed to be Kurt's date to make his boyfriend happy. After Kurt was voted prom queen by his mean-spirited classmates, they danced together as a proud couple.
After Kurt returned from New York following New Directions' loss at regionals Blaine told him for the first time the depth of his feelings, saying, "I love you."
Darren Criss has-in the course of one year-gone from YouTube sensation to a multi-Billboard charting musician and composer.
Criss garnered the attention of millions and the musical theater world when he and his University of Michigan friends created "A Very Potter Musical," which became a viral phenomenon. Thereafter, they started StarKid Productions, writing and producing subsequent online hits like "Me and My Dick" and "A Very Potter Sequel," with Criss providing the music and lyrics for the latter. The Chicago-based theatre company recently wrapped a two-week sold-out run of their latest project, Starship.
In 2009, Criss made his television debut as Josh Burton on "Eastwick," with Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price and Jaime Ray Newman, and also appeared in "Cold Case." The following year, his self-released EP Human dropped, landing on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. His breakout performance of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" in his first episode as Blaine set a milestone for GLEE, debuting at #1 on Billboard for the first time in the show's history and selling over 200,000 tracks in its first week.
A native of San Francisco, Criss plays a variety of instruments including violin, guitar, piano and drums.
He currently resides in Los Angeles.
