Happy Birthday Summer Glau!

Happy Birthday Summer Glau! She started out as a ballerina and played Prima Ballerina in the “Waiting in the Wings” (2002) episode of Angel.  Then, River Tam was her iconic role on Firefly (2002-2003), the sci fi western created by Joss Whedon.  She played a brilliant, though traumatized young woman experimented on by the Alliance. Summer returned as River Tam in the Serenity (2005) film. We discovered that the Alliance experiments had made River into a living weapon.   Summer then played Tess Doerner in The 4400 (2005-2007).  Her next role was as Cameron Phillips, a Terminator sent to protect John Connor, in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009).  

Summer Glau at Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles signing, Golden Apple, 2008, photo by the author.

She guest starred as herself in “The Terminator Decoupling” (2009) episode of The Big Bang Theory. Summer had a role in another Joss Whedon series playing Bennett Halverson, the chief programmer, in Dollhouse (2009-2010).  In 2011, Summer played Orwell, a blogger and ally to the hero of The Cape. She was next Skylar Adams in Alphas (2011-2012).  She played Gwen the LARPer taking on a demon in the action comedy Knights of Badassdom (2013).  Next, Summer was the villainous Isabel Rochev, who becomes Ravager, in Arrow (2013-2014).  She worked with fellow Firefly co-star, Alan Tudyk, in his series Con Man (2015).  Happy Birthday Summer Glau! 

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