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Mostly Credited As: Summer Glau
Birth Name: Summer Lyn Glau
Date Of Birth: July 24, 1981 (Age 28)
Country Of Birth: USA
Birth Place: San Antonio, Texas

Summer Glau was born on July 24th 1981, in San Antonio, Texas. She was the first of three daughters, her father is a general contractor and her mother is a schoolteacher. When she was younger, she was a professional ballet dancer. Her ballet training schedule required her to be home schooled by her mother from Grades 3 to 12.

Summer trained and performed as a dancer throughout her teenage years until a serious injury forced her quit. During this time, while visiting friends in Los Angeles she decided to give acting a try. Shortly after, she made the decision to move to LA and began working as an actor.

Her talent was first recognized by Joss Whedon, the creator of the shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Summer appeared in the Angel episode "Waiting in the Wings" as the Prima Ballerina. Joss liked her so much he cast her as River Tam in his new show Firefly.

Unfortunately the show was canceled after only 11 episodes but she was overjoyed when Joss told her that he was going to.
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Summer Glau TV Appearances
 
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Show: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles(2008)As: Cameron Phillips
Show: Firefly(2002)As: River Tam
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Show: The Big Bang Theory (2007) 
  The Terminator Decoupling 02x17: (Mar/09/2009) As Herself 
Show: The 4400 (2004) 
• 9 episode credits -- (First Appearance: Sunday June 05th, 2005)
  Tiny Machines 04x12: (Sep/09/2007) As Tess Doerner 
  Ghost in the Machine 04x11: (Aug/26/2007) As Tess Doerner 
  Daddy's Little Girl 04x09: (Aug/12/2007) As Tess Doerner 
  The Wrath of Graham 04x01: (Jun/17/2007) As Tess Doerner 
Show: The Unit (2006) 
• 7 episode credits -- (First Appearance: Tuesday September 26th, 2006)
  Outsiders 02x19: (Apr/03/2007) As Crystal Burns 
  The Water is Wide 02x15: (Feb/13/2007) As Crystal Burns 
  Johnny B. Good 02x14: (Feb/06/2007) As Crystal Burns 
  The Broom Cupboard 02x12: (Jan/16/2007) As Crystal Burns 
Show: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) 
  What's Eating Gilbert Grissom? 05x06: (Nov/04/2004) As Mandy Cooper 
Show: Cold Case (2003) 
  Love Conquers Al 01x06: (Nov/09/2003) As Paige Pratt 
Show: Angel (1999) 
  Waiting in the Wings 03x13: (Feb/04/2002) As Prima Ballerina 
 
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Summer Glau Trivia
 
Summer was first noticed when she was on Angel, in the episode "Waiting in the Wings". Joss Whedon, who created Angel and Firefly, loved her performance so much that he audtioned her for the role of River in Firefly.
 
She cried (of happiness) when she found out from Joss Whedon that Serenity would begin production.
 
Summer's favourite episode from Firefly is "Objects in Space", the last episode.
 
Did her own fight scenes and stunts for Serenity, the film based on Firefly.
 
 
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