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Glen Thomas Powell Jr. (conceived October 21, 1988) is an American entertainer. He started his profession with little jobs on TV and in movies, for example, Spy Children three dimensional: Game More than (2003) and Cheap Food Country (2006). Glen Powell played parts in the parody awfulness series Shout Sovereigns (2015-2016), the adolescent satire Everyone Needs Some!! (2016), and the rom-com Set It Up (2018). He likewise depicted space traveler John Glenn in Secret Figures (2016) and pilot Tom Hudner in Dedication (2022).
Glen Powell accomplished more extensive noticeable quality for featuring in the activity film Top Weapon: Nonconformist (2022) and the lighthearted comedy Anybody yet You (2023). He has since featured in obscurity parody Assassin (2023), which he additionally co-composed and created, and in the catastrophe film Twisters (2024).
Glen Powell Early life and education
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. was brought up in Austin, Texas, alongside two sisters. He is the child of Glen Powell Sr., a chief mentor, and Cyndy, a homemaker. He has fatherly Lipka Tatar family line, from an incredible extraordinary granddad Mustapha (a.k.a. Stephen) Chutsky. Glen Powell moved on from Westwood Secondary School in northwest Austin in 2007, where he played secondary school football and lacrosse He went to the Grumpy School of Correspondence at the College of Texas at Austin yet left prior to completing his certification. He at first expected to finish the prerequisites in spring 2024, however after his profession restricted his time responsibilities, he moved his objective to 2025.
Career Glen Powell
Early work and breakthrough (2003–2017)
Glen Powell acting business began while working with Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone in Spy Kids three layered: Game Over. In 2007, going before his most paramount year of school, Powell dealt with a task in The Unique Debaters, composed by and highlighting Denzel Washington familiar him with expert Ed Limato, who encouraged Powell to move to Los Angeles. Ensuing to moving to the city, Glen Powellstayed with a sidekick of the family, and he later depicted doing combating during this period to land positions, including bombarded goes for Friday Night Lights, Cowpokes and Pariahs, and The Longest Ride. Regardless, he saw some achievement with little credits in television series, including Into the West, Jack and Bobby, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Unexpectedly, Rizzoli and Isles, and The Lying Game. He furthermore had minor parts In haziness Knight Rises and Caught in Friendship.
Powell at the 2016 Toronto Overall Film Festivity
Glen Powell began landing greater positions in feature films around 2014. He played a developer in The Expendables 3, an action film that highlighted a couple of remarkable stars and that rejoined Powell with Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas. Powell later related asking Stallone for counsel while recording on the most effective way to win in Hollywood. Powell next took minor positions in the comedies Sex Ed and Ride Along 2. During this period, he similarly had an essential impact in the primary season of the organization show Yell Sovereigns and a typical work in the resulting season. In Walk 2016, he co-highlighted as Finnegan in Everybody Needs Some!!, Richard Linklater’s significant side project of Paralyzed and Dumbfounded, which was shot in Austin, Texas and conveyed by Fundamental. Before long, Powell played space adventurer John Glenn in the narrative show Hidden away Figures. In 2017, he had a minor impact as Sergeant Dylan Chutsky in the Netflix film Sand Castle. He then, highlighted in The Guernsey Conceptual and Potato Strip Pie Society.
Top Gun: Maverick and expansion (2018–present)
In 2018, Glen Powell highlighted opposite Zoey Deutch in the romantic comedy Set it Up. The film was followed through on Netflix. Powell reflected in a gathering with The Hollywood Reporter that he started getting extra calls from contacts in the diversion world after the film’s conveyance, and Jake Greenburg of The Gatekeeper commented that it was the “essential film adequately shrewd to permit [Powell] to consume certified room”. At some point from there on, Powell joined the cast of Top Weapon: Protester. He had at first gone for the gig of Bradley “Chicken” Bradshaw, yet the part went to Miles Teller. Powell’s tryout captivated producers, who extended to him the employment opportunity of Jake “Killer” Seresin taking everything into account yet Powell was reluctant to play the occupation since he saw the individual as youthful. A call from Tom Journey, the star of the film, convinced Powell to recognize the part, with Excursion offering him more essential control over the individual. The film was deferred on different events due to the pandemic, yet it changed into a “breakout work” for Powell upon its conveyance in May 2022.
Glen Powell worked as a voice performer in the stimulated film Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Youth, which appeared in Walk 2022. He then played oceanic authority Tom Hudner in the narrative clash film, Responsibility. The film, which Powell boss made, got positive reviews when conveyed in November 2022, yet it was an entertainment world bomb. He next co-highlighted with Sydney Sweeney in the romantic comedy Anyone yet You, which emerged as a sleeper hit, netting $220 million all over the planet. Around its conveyance in December 2023, the film delivered buzz because of speculation about a potential off-screen feeling among Powell and Sweeney, but the two stars later yielded that the presence of a certified relationship was significant for an advancing strategy. Glen Powell remarked to The New York Times: “That is people requiring what’s on the screen off the screen, and a portion of the time you just have to lean toward it a piece”.
Glen Powell made and co-made the substance out of the genuine dull parody Recruited shooter with boss Richard Linklater. A couple of savants praised Powell’s display in it as a secret police project laborer behaving like a recruited shooter. Alissa Wilkinson of The New York Times looked at it as a “ensured star-getting turn” for Powell, while Sophie Butcher of Domain made that he “pronounces himself as a VIP and a filmmaking sensational peculiarity”. Resulting to appearing at the 2023 Venice Worldwide Film Festivity, Agreement executioner was followed through on Netflix in June 2024. In the following month, he highlighted in the fiasco film Twisters, a free continuation of the 1996 film Twister, playing a YouTube storm chaser IndieWire’s David Ehrlich commended him for “blending pure moxy” in his part.
Powell will next star in the spine chiller Huntington, as well as Hulu parody series Chad Powers, in which he goes about as co-producer as well as a writer and boss creator. The series relies upon Eli Checking’s character made for Eli’s Places. He will moreover star in a change of Stephen Ruler’s spine chiller novel The Running Man, to be facilitated by Edgar Wright.
Personal Life of Glen Powell
Glen Powell began dating model Gigi Paris in 2019; their separation became public in April 2023. Powell is an authorized pilot. Tom Journey, his co-star in Top Firearm: Nonconformist, paid for him to go to flight school. Glen Powell has proclaimed himself a stalwart enthusiast of the Texas Longhorns. In 2024, Powell migrated from Los Angeles back to his old neighborhood of Austin, Texas.
Glen Powell Filmography
Film
Film | ||
Year | Title | Role |
2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Long-Fingered Boy |
2005 | The Wendell Baker Story | Paper Boy Travis |
2006 | Fast Food Nation | Steve |
2007 | The Great Debaters | Preston Whittington |
2009 | Jumping Off Bridges | Eric Turner |
The Hottest State | John Jaegerman | |
2012 | J.A.W. | Aiden |
The Dark Knight Rises | Trader #1 | |
Stuck in Love | Good Looking Frat Guy | |
2013 | Best Friends Forever | Nick |
Red Wing | Francis Riley | |
2014 | The Expendables 3 | Thorn |
Sex Ed | JT | |
2015 | Wind Walkers | Sonny Childe |
2016 | Misconduct | Doug Fields |
Ride Along 2 | Troy | |
Everybody Wants Some!! | Walt “Finn” Finnegan | |
Hidden Figures | John Glenn | |
2017 | Sand Castle | Sergeant Dylan Chutsky |
2018 | The Bad Guys | Whit |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mark Reynolds | |
Set It Up | Charlie Young | |
2022 | Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | Bostick |
Top Gun: Maverick | Lieutenant Jake “Hangman” Seresin | |
Devotion | Tom Hudner | |
2023 | Hit Man | Gary Johnson |
Anyone but You | Ben | |
2024 | The Blue Angels | — |
Twisters | Tyler Owens | |
TBA | Huntington † | Becket Redfellow |
Television
Television | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2003 | Endurance | Himself / Contestant | Episode: “Drop-Out” |
2004 | Jack & Bobby | Rich Wolf | Episode: “Pilot” |
2005 | Into the West | Jackson Wheeler | Episode: “Hell on Wheels” |
2008 | Without a Trace | Brett Farnsworth | Episode: “True/False” |
2009 | CSI: Miami | Logan Crawford | Season 7 Episode 12: “Head Case” |
2011 | Rizzoli & Isles | Graham Randall | Episode: “Remember Me” |
2012 | The Lying Game | Gavin Turner | Episode: “No Country for Young Love” |
NCIS | Evan Westcott | 2 episodes | |
2015–2016 | Scream Queens | Chad Radwell | Main role (season 1); recurring (season 2); 16 episodes |
2017 | All Hail King Julien | Trent (dolphin) | Voice; 3 Episodes |
2020–2022 | Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous | Dave | Voice; Recurring (seasons 1 & 5); Guest (season 2) |
2023 | Rick and Morty | Kwyatt | Voice; Episode: “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer” |
2024 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | Cameo; Episode: “Sydney Sweeney/Kacey Musgraves” |
TBA | Chad Powers †[citation needed] | Russ Holliday/Chad Powers | Lead, co-creator, writer, and executive producer |
Awards and nominations
Awards and nominations | ||||
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
2017 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Hidden Figures | Won[a] |
Palm Springs International Film Festival | Ensemble Performance Award | Honored[a] | ||
2023 | Austin Film Critics Association | Special Honorary Award | Top Gun: Maverick / Apollo 10-1/2 / Devotion | Honored |
Online Film & Television Association | Best Breakthrough Performance: Male | Top Gun: Maverick | Nominated | |
2024 | People’s Choice Awards | The Comedy Movie Star of the Year | Anyone but You | Nominated |
Astra Midseason Movie Awards | Best Picture | Hit Man | Nominated[b] | |
Best Actor | Won | |||
Best Screenplay | Runner-up[c] |
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