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Glen Powell
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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 (2015â2016), 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 (20âŚ
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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 (2015â2016), 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.
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Glen Powell's Filmography
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The Great Beyond
The Comeback King
as Aubrey King
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Fox McCloud (voice)
How to Make a Killing
as Becket Redfellow
The Running Man
as Ben Richards
Twisters
as Tyler
Hit Man
as Gary Johnson
Anyone but You
as Ben
Devotion
as Thomas J. Hudner Jr.
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Bostick
Set It Up
as Charlie Young
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Mark Reynolds
The Bad Guys
as Whit
Sand Castle
as Sergeant Dylan Chutsky
Hidden Figures
as John Glenn
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
as Self (uncredited)
Everybody Wants Some!!
as Finnegan
Misconduct
as Doug Fields
Ride Along 2
as Troy
Wind Walkers
as Sonny Childe
The Making of The Expendables 3
as Self
Sex Ed
as JT
The Expendables 3
as Thorn
April Apocalypse
as Dickie
Red Wing
as Francis Riley
Stuck in Love
as Good Looking Frat Guy
Best Friends Forever
as Nick
The Dark Knight Rises
as Trader #1
The Vibrator
as Tad
Barrio Tales
as Jack
J.A.W.
as Aiden
The Great Debaters
as Harvard Debater #1
The Hottest State
as John Jagerman
Fast Food Nation
as Steve
The Safe Side: Internet Safety
as Danger Dude
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Jumping Off Bridges
as Eric Turner
The Wendell Baker Story
as Paper Boy
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Long-fingered Boy
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Untitled Ron Howard Firefighter Film
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The Fuckboat
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The Natural Order
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Untitled Lou Gehrig Biopic
as Lou Gehrig
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Homewreckers
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The Alters
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Gaston
as Gaston
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