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Glen Powell

Acting

Born October 21, 1988 · Austin, Texas, USA

Also known as Glen Powell Jr. · Glen Thomas Powell Jr.

Biography

Glen Thomas Powell Jr. (born October 21, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with minor roles on television and in films such as Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror anthology series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), and the romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016) and aviator Tom Hudner in Devotion (2022). Powell's roles in the action film Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and the romantic comedy Anyone but You (2023) catapulted him to blockbuster stardom. He has since starred in the dark comedy Hit Man (2023), which he also co-wrote and produced, and in the disaster film Twisters (2024). His performance in the former earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. Further, Powell starred in Edgar Wright's The Running Man (2025), based on the 1987 Stephen King novella of the same name; How to Make a Killing (2026), a remake of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets; and had his first major voice performance in a feature film as Fox McCloud (aka Star Fox) in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026), a role he personally sought Nintendo for. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glen Powell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography50+ titles

Rick and Morty

2013as Kwyatt (voice)

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2026as Fox McCloud (voice)

Top Gun: Maverick

2022as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin

Chad Powers

2025as Russ Holliday / Chad Powers

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

2020as Dave (voice)

Hidden Figures

2016as John Glenn

Rizzoli & Isles

2010as Graham Randall

Scream Queens

2015as Chad Radwell

The Dark Knight Rises

2012as Trader #1

CSI: Miami

2002as Logan Crawford

NCIS

2003as Evan Westcott

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

2018as Mark Reynolds

All Hail King Julien: Exiled

2017as Trent (voice)

Stuck in Love.

2012as Good Looking Frat Guy

The Great Debaters

2007as Harvard Debater #1

Without a Trace

2002as Brett Farnsworth

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

The Challenge

1998as Self - Guest

How to Make a Killing

2026as Becket Redfellow

Devotion

2022as Thomas J. Hudner Jr.

Hot Ones

2015as Self

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

2022as Bostick

Set It Up

2018as Charlie Young

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self - Host

The Running Man

2025as Ben Richards

Twisters

2024as Tyler

Anyone But You

2023as Ben

Hit Man

2023as Gary Johnson

All Hail King Julien

2014as Trent (voice)

The Blue Angels

2024Producer

Sand Castle

2017as Sergeant Dylan Chutsky

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019as Self

Everybody Wants Some!!

2016as Finnegan

Ride Along 2

2016as Troy

Red Wing

2013as Francis Riley

The Expendables 3

2014as Thorn

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015as Self - Guest

Fast Food Nation

2006as Steve

Wind Walkers

2015as Sonny Childe

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014as Self - Guest

April Apocalypse

2013as Dickie

Misconduct

2016as Doug Fields

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988as Self - Guest

The Jennifer Hudson Show

The Hottest State

2006as John Jagerman

Sex Ed

2014as JT

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003as Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014as Self - Guest

The Wendell Baker Story

2005as Paper Boy

Spy Kids 3: Game Over

2003as Long-fingered Boy