Summer Glau

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Summer Glau

Summer Glau at the premiere of Serenity
Born July 24, 1981
San Antonio, Texas
Notable roles "River Tam" in
Firefly and Serenity
"Tess Doerner" in
(The 4400)

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.

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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.

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?" and in The Unit episode "Extreme Rendition".

Summer 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 task she wants, making her a very powerful 4400.

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 also won a 2006 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Serenity and was runner up for Best Actress/Movie in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006.[1]

Summer has been cast in a new TV movie on ABC Family called The Initiation of Sarah.

On 22 April 2006, Summer stated at the Supanova 2006 convention held in Brisbane, Australia, 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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NAME Glau, Summer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio, Texas
DATE OF DEATH
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