SUMMER GLAU

'Summer Glau' (born July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas) 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''.

Contents

Biography

Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Career

Glau 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'' as River Tam.
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. Summer appeared in the '' episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?", and the second season of ''The Unit''; portraying Crystal Burns, the girlfriend of Jeremy Erhart (Daniel Wisler).
Glau plays Tess Doerner, a paranoid schizophrenic returnee in the second season premiere of ''The 4400'' (episode "Wake-Up Call"), and the season three episodes "The Ballad of Kevin and Tess", "Terrible Swift Sword" and "Fifty-Fifty". Her character has the power to compel people to do whatever she wants.
Glau stars in the science fiction film, ''Mammoth'', which was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., and Bucharest, Romania.
Glau was voted Best Actress of 2005 by readers of ''SFX'' magazine for her portrayal of River Tam in ''Serenity''. Glau also won a 2006 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in ''Serenity''^[1] and was runner up for ''Best Actress/Movie'' in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006.^[2]
Glau has been cast in a new TV movie on ABC Family called ''The Initiation of Sarah''.
In February 2007 it was announced that Glau would be playing the role of Cameron Phillips in ''The Sarah Connor Chronicles''.^[3] This character is a Terminator infiltration unit sent back to protect John Connor and Sarah Connor from Skynet.^[4]

Personal life

Glau revealed in April 2007 that she is in a relationship with American actor ''Daniel Wisler''.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	''Angel''	Prima Ballerina	Television episode ("Waiting in the Wings")
2002-2003	''Firefly''	River Tam	Television series
2003	''Cold Case''	Paige Pratt	Television episode ("Love Conquers Al")
2004	''Sleepover''	Ticket Girl	Feature film
	''	Mandy Cooper	Television episode ("What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?")
2005	''Serenity''	River Tam	Feature film
2006	''Mammoth''	Jack	Television film
	''The Initiation of Sarah''	Lindsey Goodwin	Television film
2006-2007	''The Unit''	Crystal Burns	Television episodes ("Extreme Rendition", "Force Majeure", "Report by Exception", "The Broom Cupboard", "Johnny B. Good", "The Water is Wide " and "Outsiders")
	''The 4400''	Tess Doerner	Television episodes ("Wake Up Call", "The Ballad of Kevin and Tess", "Terrible Swift Sword", "Fifty-Fifty", "The Wrath of Graham" and "Daddy's Little Girl")
2008	''The Sarah Connor Chronicles''	Cameron Phillips	Upcoming television series

References

External links

★ Official website

★