Facts for Summer Glau

Summer’s biography in short.

• Full name: Summer Lyn Glau
• Date of birth: 24th July 1981
• Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Current residence: Los Angeles
• Starsign: Leo
• Hair colour: Brown
• Eye colour: Brown
• Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
• Siblings: Two younger sisters
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MOVIES
2006 The Initiation of Sarah
2006 Mammoth
2005 Serenity
2004 Sleepover

TV SHOWS
2007 The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2002 Firefly

GUEST APPEARENCES
09/09/2007 The 4400: Tiny Machines
08/26/2007 The 4400: Ghost In The Machine
08/12/2007 The 4400: Daddy’s Little Girl
06/17/2007 The 4400: The Wrath of Graham
04/03/2007 The Unit: The Outsiders
02/13/2007 The Unit: The Water Is Wide
02/06/2007 The Unit: Johnny B. Good
01/16/2007 The Unit: The Broom Cupboard
11/22/2006 The Unit: Report by Exception
10/17/2006 The Unit: Force Majeure
09/26/2006 The Unit: Extreme Rendition
08/27/2006 The 4400: Fifty-Fifty Videos
08/20/2006 The 4400: Terrible Swift Sword
07/30/2006 The 4400: The Ballad of Kevin and Tess
06/05/2005 The 4400: Wake Up Call Images
11/04/2004 CSI: What’s Eating Gilbert Grissom?
11/09/2003 Cold Case: Love Conquers Al
02/04/2002 Angel: Wainting In The Wings

AS HERSELF
2006 A Filmmaker’s Journey
2005 Re-Lighting the Firefly
2005 Sci Fi Inside: Serenity
2003 Here’s How It Was: The Making of ‘Firefly’
2003 Serenity: The 10th Character

MUSICAL COMMEDY / PLAY
??? Paint Your Wagon
??? Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
??? The Happy Widow
??? Peer Gynt

Summer Lyn Glau was born on July 24, 1981, in San Antonio Texas. Even though she grew up close to the Mexican border, she’s not of Latin origins. Her ancestors were German, Irish and Scottish.
She has two younger sisters Christie and Kaitlin. Her father is a general contractor and her mother is a schoolteacher. Her grandfather was a pilot in the Air Force who travelled all over the world.

Because of her very rigorous ballet training schedule Summer was home schooled by her mother Mari from grades 3 to 12. Summer trained and performed as a ballerina dancer but also studied tango and flamenco. Throughout her teenage years she danced at the Majestic Theatre in shows like Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, The Happy Widow, Peer Gynt or Paint Your Wagon. She was a soloist with her company and had been working with the symphony since she was 14.

She danced until a fateful day where the phone rang in her house. She ran through the living room to get it and accidentaly ran into the fireplace; smashing her foot into it and breaking a toe. She already had bad tendonitis in her heels, and lost all mobility on one of her feet. She danced on it broken for four months, even though she was in pain everyday.

2000 was a turning point for her. At 19, she went to L.A. to visit a friend for the summer and ended up auditioning for jobs and booking them right away. She still danced, but she could no longer wear pointe shoes everyday. She danced tango for a year until she got some acting work in commercials. Feeling acting was the right fit for her, she made the decision to move to L.A. and began working steadily as an actor.

“I danced classical ballet my whole life. That was my destiny; that was my identity. I was known as Summer The Dancer. And I thought that’s what I’d do all my life.”

Summer’s first television series role was a guest spot on Joss Whedon’s Angel in the now classic 2002 episode “Waiting in the Wings”, in which she was able to demonstrate both her acting skills and her ballet training. Joss Whedon ended up casting her without seeing her dance, and the choreographer panicked. In the episode, she had to dance Giselle, one of the most elaborate in classical ballet, a role she never got to dance in real life, but it all worked out. She did it, and the choreographer was relieved that she was a true ballet dancer.Soon after, she was cast in Whedon’s new series, Firefly, playing the role of the very traumatized River Tam, in this epic science-fiction/western show.

After the series cancellation she appeared in several famous series such as Cold Case, CSI, and The 4400. She also had a small part in the MGM feature Sleepover, in the role of a high school senior named Shelly.

“The thing about River that I like, is that she doesn’t have a lot of lines. Especially in the series she had to show what she was thinking just by the way she moved or by how her face was moving. I think that has helped me a lot as an actor.”

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