Actor
Glen Powell
Born October 21, 1988 in Austin, Texas, USA47 films
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).
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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.
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First watchThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie20268.2as Fox McCloud (voice)Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore…View filmEssential films
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47 films as actor- TBAHeaven Can Wait
- TBAHomewreckers
- TBAThe Natural Order
- TBAUntitled Ron Howard Firefighter Film
- TBAThe Fuckboat
- TBATesseract
- TBAThe Alters
- TBAUntitled Lou Gehrig BiopicLou Gehrig
- TBAGastonGaston
- 2027The Great Beyond
- 2027The Comeback KingAubrey King
- 2026One Night OnlySalvatore Schulhoffer-Lopez (Uncredited)
- 2026The Super Mario Galaxy MovieFox McCloud (voice)
- 2026How to Make a KillingBecket Redfellow
- 2025The Running ManBen Richards
- 2024TwistersTyler
- 2024Hit ManGary Johnson
- 2023Anyone but YouBen
- 2022DevotionThomas J. Hudner Jr.
- 2022Top Gun: MaverickLt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
- 2022Apollo 10½: A Space Age ChildhoodBostick
- 2018Set It UpCharlie Young
- 2018The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie SocietyMark Reynolds
- 2018The Bad GuysWhit
- 2017Sand CastleSergeant Dylan Chutsky
- 2016Hidden FiguresJohn Glenn
- 2016Everybody Wants Some!!Finnegan
- 2016MisconductDoug Fields
- 2016Ride Along 2Troy
- 2015Wind WalkersSonny Childe
- 2014Sex EdJT
- 2014The Expendables 3Thorn
- 2013April ApocalypseDickie
- 2013Red WingFrancis Riley
- 2013Stuck in LoveGood Looking Frat Guy
- 2013Best Friends ForeverNick
- 2012The Dark Knight RisesTrader #1
- 2012The VibratorTad
- 2012Barrio TalesJack
- 2011J.A.W.Aiden
- 2007The Great DebatersHarvard Debater #1
- 2007The Hottest StateJohn Jagerman
- 2006Fast Food NationSteve
- 2006The Safe Side: Internet SafetyDanger Dude
- 2006Jumping Off BridgesEric Turner
- 2005The Wendell Baker StoryPaper Boy
- 2003Spy Kids 3-D: Game OverLong-fingered Boy