Griffin Gluck

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Griffin Gluck (born August 24, 2000 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actor .

life and career

Gluck was born in 2000 as the son of the filmmaker Cellin Gluck and the former production assistant and later line producer Karin Beck in Los Angeles, California.

He got into acting at the age of six while attending a summer audition for the musical Guys and Dolls at the Palisades Playhouse with his older sister Caroline and was cast in the role of Nathan Detroit . Since his parents are mainly active in Japan, the boy was also featured in a Japanese commercial for the Heroes DVD . Since then it has been used in various commercials in the Japanese and US markets. Through his father, the student got his first assignment in a film production in 2009, when he appeared in a small guest role in the film Saidoweizu , which his father directed. In the same production, his mother was the location manager , i.e. the main person responsible for the film locations. In the fall of 2009 he was also asked for a casting call for the performance of the musical Oliver! so intrigued that he asked his father to audition with Mariko Ballentine in North Hollywood . So in the end he got the main role of the play and was used several times in it in various performances. In the following year, Griffin Gluck appeared in an episode of Das Büro .

However, Gluck only gained national fame from 2011, when he appeared in the film My Invented Woman alongside Bailee Madison as the child of Jennifer Aniston . For this he received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film at the Young Artist Awards 2012 . In 2011, the young actor was used in five different episodes of the television series Tara's Worlds , in which he took on the role of little Monty , the son of the recurring character of Evan (played by Keir O'Donnell ). The young Californian can also be seen in the half-hour television film The Council of Dads in 2011 and in the short film A Boy's Life, which will also be released in 2011 . In addition, between 2011 and 2013 he portrayed the eight-year-old son, Mason Warner , of Paul Adelstein's character in the television series Private Practice .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2009: Saidoweizu
  • 2010: The Office ( The Office , TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2011: My Invented Wife (Just Go with It)
  • 2011: Taras Welten ( United States of Tara , TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2011: The Council of Dads
  • 2011: A Boy's Life (short film)
  • 2011–2013: Private Practice (TV series, 30 episodes)
  • 2013: Back in the Game (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 2014–2015: Red Band Society (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 2016: School Survival - Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
  • 2016: Why Him?
  • 2017-2018: American Vandal (TV series, 16 episodes)
  • 2019: Big Time Adolescence
  • 2019: How Jodi grew beyond herself (Tall Girl)
  • 2020: Locke & Key

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 33rd Annual Young Artist Award - Nominations . In: Young Artist Award . Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  2. ^ Peter Tolan's 'Council of Dads' Casts the Kids , accessed September 17, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Good luck, Griffin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States