Birth Name: Summer Lyn Glau
Birth Place: San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 24, 1981
What Race or Ethnicity?: Scots-Irish and German
The American actress is well known for playing Cameron on the series, Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. She stated in an interview that she is of German and Scots-Irish descent. There was some talk that she could be of Asian or Hispanic descent however she denied this.
On another blog, Newspaper Rock the author investigated Glau’s heritage and got a response from a Fox executive. The executive stated that Glau is one eighth Cherokee Indian. However the author considered the possibility of this being exaggerated.
Source:
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2008/12/summer-glau-cherokee.html
http://www.whedon.info/Summer-Glau-About-her-career.html
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What exactly IS Scots-Irish? Is it just a mix of Scottish and Irish, or is it something completely different I’m missing? This girl doesn’t look one bit Scottish, Irish or German to me (I would have guessed she was Italian), and Scots-Irish seems to me like a term only used in America… in Australia we just say Scottish and Irish and don’t combine them into one word.
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Scots-Irish are Scottish and Northern English people who settled in Northern Ireland during 100 year before they migrate to North America. In UK, they use the term Ulster Scots for those people.
So if she’s Scots-Irish, she must have more Scottish roots than Irish roots.
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True.. I am white/caucasian/european of every white ethnicity people can think. but I look just like a mexican. but i am not..
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Oops just realized how many spelling errors i had on that..oh well:)
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I find her very un attractive, thats my opinion, its hard to focus on a good show when you are watching such an unattractive and annoying person.
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Whatever she may be, as a native German speaker I have to say that “glau” isn’t even close to “glow” in German, just fyi (I’m not disputing her German heritage, it’s just a correction).
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People mistake me for having Asian in my background all the time because of my “racially atypical” features; I’m Black. You can’t rush to judgements on someone’s ethnicity based solely on physiological stereotypes.
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How sad. She’s one of those people mixed with something who wants to erase the minority par of their ethnicity, despite the fact that it’s glaring. There is NO WAY that she’s just all-white. Shame on her.
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Your comment is pathetic. There are a lot of white people who do not look “Anglo-Saxon.”
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Remember her from firefly! But she does have some native american or asian in her as niether scots-irish or germans have her sort of features.
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She definitely has a unique look and the name Glau is an unusually name in the States.
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oooh i love her!!! she’s sooo awesome, when i saw her, i didnt know sh was scotish irish and german
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