Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from
Firefly.
------------------- Summer Glau/River Tam -------------------
Summer
Glau
Summer was born in 1981 and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Until her recent and successful venture into acting she was a prima ballerina, who also studied flamenco and tango. Summer has been dancing professionally since the age of 12.
Her acting career began through various commercials and appearing in a variety of regional theater productions. She was probably first noticed by most fans in the Angel episode 'Waiting in the wings' (directed by creator Joss Whedon), where she played a
prima ballerina
After this Summer was cast as Paige Pratt for one episode in Cold Case. Due to her
performance in Angel she was later auditioned and then cast as River Tam for Joss Whedon's new science-fiction / western show Firefly.
Despite rave reviews from all quarters this show was cancelled by FOX after only 13 episodes,
but Summer will be back as River Tam in the Firefly movie, Serenity.
River
Tam
Whereas Simon is gifted, River is some level above that. Born on
Osiris, River enjoyed a comfortable childhood. She was more intelligent
than her older brother and was often seen to, not only be correcting his
school work but also the textbooks from which he would be working from.
Because of River's huge intelligence she was found an Academy to go to.
River wanted to go there, but it wasn't what it seemed. There she was,
what could only be described as tortured. Her brain was "played
with". A portion of it was removed, which means that now River
feels everything she. She can't not feel things she doesn't want to
feel. Simon managed to figure out what was happening to River, via a
slew of coded messages River was sending him. He saved her from the
Academy. It is not know who ran the Academy, even though it was paraded
as a government run boarding school. River was brought aboard Serenity
in a cryogenically frozen state. She was woken up before her time by
Mal, who wanted to see what was in the box. Ever since the experiments
that were done on River in the Academy she's seen to be a bit mad, not
quite with it. He symptoms appeared to be getting worse, until Simon
managed to find out exactly what was wrong with River and get some drugs
together to begin treating her. Even though she is seen as a bit of a
mental nutcase, her intelligence is intact. She outwitted a bounty
killer and she's managed to shoot three men during a gun fight with her
eyes shut. Some may even say she's got psychic abilities. Being able to
read people, and their actions before they say anything.
- Serenity (2005) - River Tam
- Sleepover (2004) - Ticket Girl
------------------- Summer Glau - TV Appearances -------------------
- The 4400 playing Tess Doerner in episode: Wake-Up Call (episode 2.1) 5
June 2005
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation playing Mandy Cooper in episode:
What's Eating Gilbert Grissom? (episode - 5.6) 4 November 2004
- Cold Case playing Paige Pratt in episode: Love Conquers Al (episode -
1.6) 9 November 2003
- Angel playing Prima Ballerina in episode: Waiting in the Wings
(episode - 3.13) 4 February 2002
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