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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. She now appears on the Fox network TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as Cameron Phillips. Summer Glau was born on July 24th 1981, in San Antonio Texas where she was the first of three daughters. Her father is a general contractor and her mother is a schoolteacher. A rigourous ballet training schedule required that Summer be home schooled by he mother from grades 3 to 12., Summer trained and performed as a dancer throughout her teenage years until a serious injury forced her to take time to heal. During this time, while visiting friends in Los Angeles she booked her first acting job. Shortly after, she made the decision to move to LA and began working steadily as an actor and dancer. Glau was classically trained as a ballerina and also studied tango and flamenco. A professional dancer since age 12, she appeared in a few television commercials. Summer's first television series role was a guest spot on Joss Whedon's ANGEL in the now classic episode "Waiting in the Wings", in which she was able to demonstrate her ballet training. Soon after, she was cast in Whedon's new series, Firefly, playing the role of River. Since the end of Firefly, Summer has appeared on the CBS series Cold Case, and the MGM feature Sleepover. She has currently been working on Universal's feature film Firefly: Serenity". Having relocated to Los Angeles in 2002, 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 his short-lived TV series Firefly as River Tam, a role she reprised for the show's feature film sequel, Serenity. In 2004 Reprised her role as River in Joss Whedon’s “Serenity,” a movie spin-off of the “Firefly” series Glau 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 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 reprised the role in the season three episodes "The Ballad of Kevin and Tess", "Terrible Swift Sword" and "Fifty-Fifty". Her character had the power to compel people to do whatever she wants. She also starred in the science fiction film Mammoth. Reprised her role as River in Joss Whedon’s “Serenity,” a movie spin-off of the “Firefly” series, Glau was voted Best Actress of 2005 by readers of SFX magazine and received a 2005 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Serenity and was runner up for Best Actress/Movie in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006. Glau was cast in a TV movie on ABC Family called The Initiation of Sarah. In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a series that debuted January 13, 2008, Glau plays 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's Hand", included several scenes in which Glau (in character as Cameron) dances ballet. Auditioned for the role of "Kitty Pryde" in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and had even asked Joss Whedon (who was writing Marvel's Astonishing X-Men comic book at the time and whose ideas contributed to the plot of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)) for assistance in preparing for the part. Ultimately, the role went to Ellen Page. She had not actually seen the Terminator movies, before being cast in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008). She is of Scots-Irish and German descent. Glau revealed in April 2007 that she is in a relationship with American actor Daniel Wisler. |
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