Actors - Summer Glau

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Summer Glau

	Actors - Summer Glau

Summer Glau (born July 24, 1981) 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
.

Career

Glau, a native of San Antonio, Texas, was classically trained as a ballerina and also studied tango and flamenco. A professional dancer from the age of 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.

She appeared on the episode "Love Conquers Al" (1x06) of the TV series Cold Case. She had a small role in the film Sleepover
, in which she plays a high school senior named Shelly. She appeared in the CSI episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?". In June 2005, she played Tess Doerner, a paranoid schizophrenic returnee in the second season premiere of The 4400 (episode "Wake-Up Call").

Glau stars in the new science fiction film, Mammoth, which has completed shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Bucharest, Romania.

Glau was voted Best Actress of 2005 by readers of SFX magazine for her potrayal of River Tam in Serenity
.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Summer Glau ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Summer Glau; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Actors - Summer Glau

Career

Searches on eBay

Related searches on eBay