Scott Glenn facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Scott Glenn
Glenn at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2011
Born	Theodore Scott Glenn January 26 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	College of William and Mary (BA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1965–present
Spouse(s)	Carol Schwartz ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	2

Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26) is an American actor known for playing a wide variety of characters in movies and television.

You might know him as the astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff or as Captain Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October. He also played Jack Crawford in the famous movie The Silence of the Lambs.

More recently, he played the wise and tough mentor Stick in the Marvel TV shows Daredevil and The Defenders. He also appeared as CIA Director Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum and Kevin Garvey Sr. in the HBO series The Leftovers. In 2025, he appeared in the popular show The White Lotus.

Early Life and Education

Scott Glenn has Irish and Native American family history. When he was a child, he was often sick. For a whole year, he had to stay in bed because of illnesses like scarlet fever. To get stronger, he started intense training in sports like boxing and wrestling. This helped him recover, though he walked with a limp for a few years.

After high school in Pittsburgh, Glenn went to the College of William & Mary. He studied English and graduated in 1961. After college, he served in the United States Marine Corps for three years.

Later, he worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He wanted to be an author, but he found it hard to write good dialogue (the words characters say to each other). To get better at it, he started taking acting classes.

Acting Career

Getting Started

Glenn's acting career began on the Broadway stage in 1965. To pay for his acting classes, he helped direct student plays. In 1968, he joined a famous acting group called The Actors Studio and started getting roles in professional theater and on TV.

In 1970, director James Bridges gave him his first movie role in The Baby Maker. For the next eight years, Glenn lived in Los Angeles, California, acting in small movie parts and on TV shows.

Becoming a Star

In 1978, Glenn and his family moved to Ketchum, Idaho. He took a break from acting and worked as a barman and mountain ranger. He returned to acting in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

His big break came in 1980 when he played an ex-convict named Wes Hightower in the movie Urban Cowboy. This role made him famous. Throughout the 1980s, he starred in many popular films. He played heroes and villains in action movies like Silverado and dramas like The Right Stuff, where he played astronaut Alan Shepard.

Major Film Roles

The early 1990s were a high point in Glenn's career. He appeared in several major films that are still famous today.

• The Hunt for Red October (1990): He played Captain Bart Mancuso, the commander of an American submarine.
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991): He played FBI agent Jack Crawford.
• Backdraft (1991): He played a brave firefighter named John "Axe" Adcox.

Later in his career, he continued to act in a mix of big movies and smaller independent films. He played supporting roles in popular movies like Courage Under Fire (1996), Absolute Power (1997), and Training Day (2001).

Television and Recent Work

Glenn has also had a successful career in television. He is well-known to younger audiences for playing Stick, a mysterious martial arts master, in the Netflix series Daredevil and The Defenders.

He also played Kevin Garvey Sr. in the HBO series The Leftovers from 2014 to 2017. In 2020, he appeared in the disaster movie Greenland as the main character's father. In 2024, he joined the cast of the third season of the hit HBO show The White Lotus.

Personal Life

Scott Glenn married Carol Schwartz in 1968. When they got married, Glenn converted to Judaism, which is his wife's faith. They have two daughters together.

See also

In Spanish: Scott Glenn para niños