Glen Powell

Glen Powell reads to me like Hollywood's last old-fashioned movie star, built the slow way. He spent years grinding through small parts before the industry caught up, and that long apprenticeship shows: he treats charm as a craft, not a birthright. What separates him from other handsome leading men is the writer-producer brain underneath — he studies how stars are made and engineers his own career accordingly, while quietly re-enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin, which he had left after one year. He can sell romance, comedy, and blockbuster spectacle with equal ease, which is rarer than it sounds. I suspect we are watching the early chapters of a genuinely durable leading man.

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Name (English)

Glen Powell

Name (Japanese)

グレン・パウエル

Reading

ぐれん・ぱうえる

Born

October 21, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Austin, Texas, United States

Occupation

actor / writer / film producer / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

High school

Westwood High School

University

University of Texas at Austin

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/glenpowell/
• Xhttps://x.com/glenpowell
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Powell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5567967

Tags

• Texas
• actor
• writer
• film producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.