Summer Glau

IMDB profile

Add to favorites

Edit page

Search at Amazon

Stats

Birth Name: Summer Lyn Glau

Age: 45, born 24 July 1981

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 6"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Val Morrison

Lists

441 votes

The evolution of... (747 items)
list by johanlefourbe

Published 15 years, 10 months ago

66 comments

364 votes

Women With Weapons (469 items)
list by Kev64

Published 4 months, 4 weeks ago

47 comments

211 votes

Straight or Not ?! (130 items)
list by Mejo ♥♫

Published 14 years, 6 months ago

34 comments

205 votes

Beauties and Goddesses (updated 26/01/2022) (2205 items)
list by Deanmon

Published 11 years ago

5 comments

202 votes

Wanted Dead Or Alive (129 items)
list by Flá

Published 17 years ago

19 comments

View all Summer Glau lists

Summer Glau Videos

Summer Glau - Esquire Magazine Photoshoot

671 Views

Added 15 years ago

Summer Glau

437 Views

Added 11 years ago

Summer Glau ALS ice bucket Challenge

270 Views

Added 11 years ago

View all Summer Glau videos

Photos

88 votes

67 votes

65 votes

60 votes

55 votes

View all Summer Glau pictures

Description: Summer Glau [ born: Summer Lyn Glau on July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas] is an actress, classically trained ballet dance rand singer. Glau grew up in San Antonio, Texas with her two younger sisters (Kaitlin and Christie). She is of Scottish, Irish and German descent. Her mother is a schoolteacher and her father a general contractor. Glau received a scholarship to a ballet company and was home-schooled from grades 3 to 12 to accommodate her ballet training. Glau was classically trained as a ballet dancer and also studied tango and flamenco. After a broken toe ended her dancing career, Glau later moved to Los Angeles in 2002 Summer Glau [ born: Summer Lyn Glau on July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas] is an actress, classically trained ballet dance rand singer. Glau grew up in San Antonio, Texas with her two younger sisters (Kaitlin and Christie). She is of Scottish, Irish and German descent. Her mother is a schoolteacher and her father a general contractor.

Glau received a scholarship to a ballet company and was home-schooled from grades 3 to 12 to accommodate her ballet training. Glau was classically trained as a ballet dancer and also studied tango and flamenco. After a broken toe ended her dancing career, Glau later moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a more active acting career.

Glau's first television credit was a guest role as a ballerina on the 2002 episode "Waiting in the Wings" of the television series Angel. There she caught the eye of director Joss Whedon, who later cast her in his critically acclaimed but short-lived TV series Firefly as River Tam, a role she reprised for the show's feature film sequel, Serenity. Glau previously auditioned for the role as a Power Ranger in Power Rangers Wild Force before meeting Joss Whedon.
Glau appeared on the episode "Love Conquers Al" of the TV series Cold Case. She had a small role in the film Sleepover, in which she played a high school senior named Shelly. She also appeared in the CSI episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?", and the second season of The Unit; portraying Crystal Burns, the girlfriend of Jeremy Erhart. In 2006, Glau played Tess Doerner, a paranoid schizophrenic returnee in the second season premiere of The 4400 (episode "Wake-Up Call"), and became a recurring character from season 3 onwards. She also starred in the science fiction film Mammoth. Glau was cast in the ABC Family TV movie The Initiation of Sarah.

In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a series that debuted January 13, 2008, Glau played the role of Cameron Phillips, a Terminator infiltration unit sent back to protect John Connor and Sarah Connor from Skynet. The seventh episode of the series, "The Demon Hand", included several scenes in which Glau (in character as Cameron) dances ballet. Glau also guest starred as herself in the 2009 episode "The Terminator Decoupling" from the second season of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory.

On August 26, 2009, it was confirmed after much speculation that Glau would be joining the cast of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse for at least two episodes in the early part of the show's second season. She portrayed Bennett, the programmer for a rival Dollhouse.

On March 12, 2010, it was announced that she would be joining the cast of NBC's The Cape in a leading role. In June 2010 she was confirmed as the female lead in the horror comedy film Knights of Badassdom.

On July 11, 2011, Glau is cast as Skylar Adams, a recurring alpha and mother to Zoe Adams, and a former acquaintance of Dr. Rosen and Nina. Glau voiced Kara Zor-El in the DC Comics original animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

Summer Glau has been involved in a number of charities, such as B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre Glau is an animal lover and has shown support to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles, where she hand-painted a decorative pet bowl that was later sold on eBay to raise funds. She became a vegetarian in 1995, but, in 2005 she stated that " by the end of shooting Serenity] I was eating steaks." Glau has trained in multiple forms of martial arts, including kung fu and kickboxing. ... (more)