Saturday, July 24, 2021

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 Glau’s 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. Glau returned as River Tam in the Serenity (2005) film. We discovered that the Alliance experiments had made River into a living weapon.  Glau then played Tess Doerner in The 4400 (2005-2007).  Her next role was as Cameron Phillips, a Terminator named Cameron sent to protect John Connor, in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009).  She guest starred as herself in “The Terminator Decoupling” (2009) episode of The Big Bang Theory. 

Summer Glau at the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles panel, Los Angeles Science Fiction and Comic Book Convention, 2008, photo by the author. 


Glau had a role in another Joss Whedon series playing Bennett Halverson, the chief programmer, in Dollhouse (2009-2010).  In 2011, Glau played Orwell, a blogger and ally to the hero of The Cape. She was next Skylar Adams in Alphas (2011-2012).  Gwen the LARPer was played by Glau in the action comedy Knights of Badassdom (2013).  Next, Glau 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).  Then, Glau was in a 2016 episode of another Firefly cast member, Nathan Fillion, and his series, Castle.  In 2019 she was Water Wu in two epsiodes of Wu Assassins.  Happy Birthday Summer Glau!


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