Glen Powell

Glen Thomas Powell Jr. (born October 21, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with guest roles on television and small roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014) before making his breakthrough performance in the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016).

Powell has since starred in the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He has also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016), a pilot in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and aviator Thomas Hudner in Devotion (2022).

Powell was born in Austin, Texas. He is a graduate of Westwood High School in northwest Austin which is part of the Round Rock Independent School District.

Powell's acting career began while working with Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. In 2007, before his first year of college, Powell landed a role in The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

Since moving to Los Angeles, he has acted in television series such as Scream Queens, Into the West, Jack & Bobby, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Without a Trace, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Lying Game, along with the feature films like The Expendables 3, Ride Along 2, Sex Ed, Stuck in Love, The Dark Knight Rises, Hidden Figures, and Top Gun: Maverick.

He co-starred as Finnegan in Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater's spiritual sequel to Dazed & Confused, which was filmed in Austin and released by Paramount on March 30, 2016. He starred opposite Zoey Deutch in Set It Up, a romantic comedy on Netflix.

Powell started dating model Gigi Paris in 2019; their breakup became public in April 2023. He is a fan of the Texas Longhorns and Dallas Cowboys.

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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!!	Finnegan
	Hidden Figures	John Glenn	Palm Springs International Film Festival Ensemble Performance Award Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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	Also executive producer
2023	Anyone But You		Post-production
2024	Twisters		Filming
	Hitman	Gary Johnson	Post-production; also producer

Television