1. Summer Glau received a scholarship to a ballet company and was homeschooled from grades 3 to 12 to accommodate her ballet training.
25 Facts About Summer Glau
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When Summer Glau first moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s, she spent her time as a traveling dancer, living off paychecks from corporate events, weddings, and resort gigs.
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Summer Glau's first television credit was a guest role on a 2002 episode of the television series Angel.
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Summer Glau had a small role in the film Sleepover, in which she played the high school senior Shelly.
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In 2006, Summer Glau played Tess Doerner, a paranoid schizophrenic returnee in season two's premiere of The 4400, and became a recurring character from season three onwards.
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Summer Glau starred in the horror comedy film Mammoth and was cast in the ABC Family TV movie The Initiation of Sarah.
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In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a series that debuted in early 2008, Summer Glau played the role of Cameron Phillips, a reprogrammed Terminator infiltration unit sent back by future John Connor to protect John's younger self and his mother Sarah Connor from Skynet.
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Summer Glau played Allison Young in the second-season episodes "Allison from Palmdale" and "Born to Run".
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Summer Glau guest starred as herself in a 2009 episode of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory.
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Summer Glau portrayed Bennett, the programmer for a rival Dollhouse.
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Summer Glau portrayed the protagonist Lindsey in the 2010 film Deadly Honeymoon and supporting character Maggie in the 2011 film The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy, which was filmed close to her residence in Boerne, Texas.
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Summer Glau guest starred as Greta in a 2010 episode of the TV series Chuck, reuniting with her Firefly co-star Adam Baldwin.
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In 2011, Summer Glau portrayed the leading role of Orwell in NBC's The Cape, a mysterious blogger who assisted the main character in crime fighting activities.
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On July 11,2011, Summer Glau was cast on Alphas as Skylar Adams, a recurring alpha with outstanding intellectual ability and mother to Zoe Adams, and a former acquaintance of Dr Rosen and Nina.
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In 2012, Summer Glau played the main character Christine in the Hallmark film Help for the Holidays, an elf who went on a special assignment to help a family regain their Christmas spirit.
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In 2013, Summer Glau was a female lead in the horror comedy film Knights of Badassdom, in which she took up larping.
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In 2014, Summer Glau appeared in all 12 episodes of the TV series Sequestered, portraying a juror who seemed to have been involuntarily brought into larger conspiracy.
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Summer Glau rejoined her Firefly co-star Nathan Fillion when she guest starred in the web series Con Man as Martina and in Castle as Kendall Frost, an aspiring private detective who rivaled Fillion's protagonist.
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Summer Glau has been featured in the short films Inside the Box and Dead End, as well as in the web series Jeff 1000 and The Human Preservation Project.
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Summer Glau has been married to Val Morrison since 2014, whom she met on the set of Hawaii Five-0.
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In January 2015, Summer Glau gave birth to her first daughter.
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Summer Glau gave birth to her second daughter in October 2017.
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Outside of film and TV, Summer Glau has participated in a wide variety of comic conventions across the United States and the world.
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Summer Glau has been an advocate for the science fiction fan community, such as through a promotional video for the Los Angeles Sci-fi World.
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Summer Glau has supported wind energy in the 175th Anniversary of the Texas Revolution video series directed by Michael Cerny.