{"id":239,"date":"2026-07-06T23:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=glen-powell"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:04","slug":"glen-powell","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=glen-powell","title":{"rendered":"Glen Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Thomas Powell Jr.\u00a0(born October 21, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with minor roles on television and in films such as\u00a0Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0Fast Food Nation\u00a0(2006). Powell acted in the action film\u00a0The Expendables 3\u00a0(2014), the comedy-horror anthology series\u00a0Scream Queens\u00a0(2015\u20132016), the teen comedy\u00a0Everybody Wants Some!!\u00a0(2016), the historical romance\u00a0The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), and the romantic comedy\u00a0Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut\u00a0John Glenn in\u00a0Hidden Figures\u00a0(2016) and aviator\u00a0Tom Hudner in\u00a0Devotion\u00a0(2022).<\/p>\n<p>Powell&#8217;s roles in the action film\u00a0Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and the romantic comedy\u00a0Anyone but You\u00a0(2023) catapulted him to blockbuster stardom. He has since starred in the dark comedy\u00a0Hit Man (2023), which he also co-wrote and produced, and in the disaster film\u00a0Twisters\u00a0(2024). His performance in the former earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Powell starred in Edgar Wright&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Description above from the Wikipedia article Glen Powell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Thomas Powell Jr.\u00a0(born October 21, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with minor roles on television and in films such as\u00a0Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0Fast Food Nation\u00a0(2006). 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