Summer Glau is best known for playing River Tam in the science fiction series Firefly and follow-up film Serenity and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Trivia:

• She loves to watch cooking shows.
• She is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys.
• Auditioned for the role of “Kitty Pryde” in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and had even asked Joss Whedon (who was writing Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men comic book at the time and whose ideas contributed to the plot of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)) for assistance in preparing for the part. Ultimately, the role went to Ellen Page.
• She had not actually seen the Terminator movies, before being cast in “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (2008).