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Summer Glau Profile |
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Birth Date: July 24, 1981
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Birth Place: San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Birth Name: Summer Lyn Glau
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Summer Glau is an American dancer and actress, best known
for her role as River Tam in the short-lived science fiction
series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity.
Glau, a native of San Antonio, Texas, was classically
trained as a ballerina and also studied tango and flamenco.
A professional dancer since age 12, Glau relocated to Los
Angeles in 2002. She appeared in a few television
commercials, but Glau's first television credit was a guest
role as a ballerina on the 2002 episode "Waiting in the
Wings" (episode 3x13) of the television series Angel. There
she caught the eye of producer Joss Whedon, who later cast
her in Firefly.
Glau appears on the episode "Love Conquers Al" (1x06) of the
TV series Cold Case. She has a small role in the film
Sleepover, in which she plays a high school senior named
Shelly. She appears in the CSI episode "What's Eating
Gilbert Grissom?". She plays Tess Doerner, a paranoid
schizophrenic returnee in the second season premiere of The
4400 (episode "Wake-Up Call"), and has stated that she will
return to shoot a couple of more episodes for season three.
Glau stars in the science fiction film, Mammoth, which was
filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, and Bucharest,
Romania.
Glau was voted Best Actress of 2005 by readers of SFX
magazine for her portrayal of River Tam in Serenity.
Summer has won a 2006 Saturn Award for Best Supporting
Actress in Serenity.
Summer has been cast in a new TV movie on ABC Family called
The Initiation of Sarah.
On 22 April 2006, Summer stated at an Australian convention
that she was aware of the 'secret' of the character Shepherd
Book from the series Firefly. This has encouraged further
speculation of a possible sequel to Serenity. |
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The cast of "Serenity" made a running gag of shouting her
name if they forgot their lines during a scene. The joke
originated when she blew a line at the end of a particularly
long and difficult scene on the T.V. series "Firefly".
Played similar "crazy" characters on both the television
series "Firefly" (2002/I) (and its movie Serenity (2005))
and "The 4400" (2004). |
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