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Summer Glau

Summer Glau
An American TV actress from San Antonio, Texas. When she was younger, Summer was a professional ballet dancer. Her ballet training schedule required her to be home-schooled by her mother from Grades 3 to 12. She secretly wanted to become an actress.

When she was older, Summer was forced to take a break from dancing due to a foot injury. She began to act, appearing in various commercials and theatre productions. Then when she finally made it on a TV show as a guest star in an episode of Angel playing a cursed Ballerina, writer/producer Joss Whedon took notice. Whedon ended up casting her as fan favourite River Tam, in his short lived cult hit sci-fi series Firefly.

She had guest appearences in episodes of Cold Case and CSI and made a short appearance in the movie Sleepover, before reprising the role of River Tam in the Firefly sequel-movie Serenity. After that, Summer landed recurring roles in both The Unit and The 4400 and leads in the movie The Initiation of Sarah and made-for-television movie Mammoth.

In 2008, she began her regular role as Cameron, a female terminator, in the FOX series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

In 2009, Summer made a guest apperance in the comedy series The Big Bang Theory in the episode 'The Terminator Decoupling' in which she played herself.


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Summer Glau - what members say


  • Serenity
  • Serenity review by A customer from England
    Rated - 5 stars A fan 29 October 2005
    ...Loved it, loved it, loved it. Nathan Fillion as per the series is excellent. Summer Glau, unexpected excellence (she is so beautiful). Great series and great film. Bring o...  
  • Mammoth
  • Mammoth review by A customer from Leeds
    Rated - 2 stars True Drivvel Saved Only By The Incredible Summer Glau 20 January 2009
    ...he story is poor, with a men in black rip off feel to it, the only good part is Summer Glau, who once again acts her part perfectly. ...  
  • Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1
  • Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1 review by jc1138 from London
    Rated - 0 stars Terminated 21 August 2008
    ...ed voiceover. Thomas Dekker makes for a pretty bland future saviour & Firefly's Summer Glau doesn't have much to do as the new female terminator sent to protect John (or i...  

Summer Glau - filmography


  • Mammoth
  • Mammoth on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Vincent Ventresca,  Tom Skerritt,  Summer Glau
    Director: Tim Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a meteor smashes into a local museum, the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000 year old mammoth is unleashed on a small country town. Under orders to contain the threat that the mammoth posesses at all costs, Special Agents Powers and Whitaker are given 17 hours to kill the mammoth or the entire ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 355 members
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  • Serenity
  • Serenity on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Nathan Fillion,  Gina Torres,  Alan Tudyk
    Director: Joss Whedon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity, the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series, Firefly. A mix of space western, comedy, and drama, Serenity follows ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 54,381 members
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  • Serenity - HD DVD Version
  • Serenity - HD DVD Version (2005)
    Starring: Nathan Fillion,  Gina Torres,  Alan Tudyk
    Director: Joss Whedon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity, the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series, Firefly. A mix of space western, comedy, and drama, Serenity follows ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,179 members
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