Biography
Summer Glau an American actress best known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy television series: as River Tam in Firefly and its continuation film Serenity (2005).
Glau's first television credit was a guest role on a 2002 episode of the television series Angel, in which she played a prima ballerina. In 2006, 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. In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, she 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. In 2008, she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her portrayal of Cameron.
Following these successes, she appeared in The Big Bang Theory, Dollhouse, Chuck, The Cape, and Alphas. Moreover, she voiced Kara Zor-El in the DC Comics original animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010). In the CW superhero series Arrow, Glau portrayed the recurring antagonist Isabel Rochev (aka Ravager) in its second season in 2013. In 2018, she was cast in the recurring role of Miss Jones on the Netflix crime drama series Wu Assassins.
In 2013, Glau starred alongside Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, and Peter Dinklage in the horror comedy film Knights of Badassdom.