Glen Powell is an American actor. He began his career with guest roles on television and small roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014) before making his breakthrough performance in the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016). He is best known from his role of Lt. Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
Powell has since starred in the college comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He has also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016), and aviator Thomas Hudner in Devotion (2022).
Powell's acting career began while working with Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. In 2007, before his first year of college, Powell landed a role in The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.
Since moving to Los Angeles, he has acted in television series such as Scream Queens, Into the West, Jack & Bobby, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Without a Trace, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Lying Game, along with the feature films like The Expendables 3, Ride Along 2, Sex Ed, Stuck in Love, The Dark Knight Rises, Hidden Figures, and Top Gun: Maverick.
He co-starred as Finnegan in Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater's spiritual sequel to Dazed & Confused, which was filmed in Austin and released by Paramount on March 30, 2016. He starred opposite Zoey Deutch in Set It Up, a romantic comedy on Netflix. He co-stars Sydney Sweeney in the 2023 romantic comedy Anyone but You.
