Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor born on October 21, 1988. Powel Jr. started acting in a guest role on TV and was part of a few films like The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014).
He gained popularity when he acted as Chad Radwell in Scream Queens series of 2015 – 2016 that was published by the Fox comedy-horror.
He starred as Finnegan in Everybody Wants Some!!, a coming-of-age comedy in 2016. Also, in the drama Hidden Figures in 2016, he was featured as astronaut John Glenn in 2016.
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In 2018, he played a role as Charlie Young in Set It Up. Set It Up was the last movie he featured in before gaining international recognition and was adorned as Lieutenant Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
Life And Career
Powell is an American, born in Austin, Texas, and schooled at Westwood High School located in northwest Austin. Westwood High School is part of the Round Rock Independent School District. Powell started his movie career when he was working with Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
He landed a role in The Great Debaters before his first year in college in 2007. The Great Debaters was directed by and starred by Denzel Washington.
When he moved to Los Angeles, he has been seen in numerous television series like Scream Queens, Into the West, Jack & Bobby, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Without a Trace, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Lying Game. He also played a role in other films like The Expendables 3, Ride Along 2, Sex Ed, Stuck in Love, The Dark Knight Rises, Hidden Figures, and Top Gun: Maverick.
During the starring of Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater’s, and Dazed & Confused; he co-starred as Finnegan in the movies. Dazed & Confused was filmed in Austin and published by Paramount on March 30, 2016. In the movie, Set It Up, a romantic comedy that streamed on Netflix, he starred opposite Zoey Deutch.
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Currently (2022), Powell is dating Gigi Paris, a model. And he is also a top fan of the Texas Longhorns and Dallas Cowboy.
Filmography
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 |
| 2009 | The Hottest State | John Jaegerman |
| 2012 | J.A.W. | Aiden |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Trader #1 |
| 2012 | Stuck In Love | Good Looking Frat Guy |
| 2013 | Best Friends Forever | Nick |
| 2013 | Red Wing | Francis Riley |
| 2014 | The Expendables 3 | Thorn |
| 2014 | Sex Ed | JT |
| 2015 | Wind Walkers | Sonny Childe |
| 2016 | Misconduct | Doug Fields |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | Troy |
| 2016 | Everybody Wants Some!! | Finnegan |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures | John Glenn |
| 2017 | Sand Castle | Sergeant Dylan Chutsky |
| 2018 | The Bad Guys | Whit |
| 2018 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mark Reynolds |
| 2018 | Set It Up | Charlie Young |
| 2022 | Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | Bostick |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Lieutenant Jake Hangman Seresin |
| 2022 | Devotion | Tom Hudner |
| -- | Hitman (not yet released) | Gary Johnson |
Television
| YEAR | TITLE | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Endurance | Himself / Contestant |
| 2004 | Jack & Bobby | Rich Wolf |
| 2005 | Into The West | Jackson Wheeler |
| 2008 | Without A Trace | Brett Farnsworth |
| 2009 | CSI: Miami | Logan Crawford |
| 2011 | Rizzoli & Isles | Graham Randall |
| 2012 | The Lying Game | Gavin Turner |
| 2012 | NCIS | Evan Westcott |
| 2015-2016 | Scream Queens | Chad Radwell |
| 2017 | All Hail King Julien | Trent (Dolphin) |
| 2020-2021 | Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous | Dave |