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72-666: Summer Glau ( / ɡ l aʊ / ; born July 24, 1981) is an American actress best known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy television series: as River Tam in Firefly (2002) and its continuation film Serenity (2005), as Tess Doerner in The 4400 (2005–2007), as Cameron in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009), and as Isabel Rochev / Ravager in Arrow (2013–2014). Glau

144-460: A T-800 attempt to stop Judgment Day. They travel to the future and infiltrate Cyberdyne to prevent the completion of Skynet. After fighting various machines and succeeding in their mission, John is sent back to the present. The T2 novel trilogy explores Sarah and John's life while living off-the-grid . The first novel, T2: Infiltrator , is set six years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day . It sees Sarah and 16-year-old John live

216-462: A paranoid schizophrenic returnee in season two's premiere of The 4400 , and became a recurring character from season three onwards. She also starred in the horror comedy film Mammoth and was cast in the ABC Family TV movie The Initiation of Sarah . In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , a series that debuted in early 2008, Glau played the role of Cameron Phillips ,

288-501: A 2010 episode of the TV series Chuck , reuniting with her Firefly co-star Adam Baldwin . In 2011, Glau portrayed the leading role of Orwell in NBC's The Cape , a mysterious blogger who assisted the main character in crime fighting activities. On July 11, 2011, Glau was cast on Alphas as Skylar Adams, a recurring alpha with outstanding intellectual ability and mother to Zoe Adams, and

360-598: A T-800, which then shoots John dead in front of Sarah. Though dead and gone, John's legacy continues to play a crucial role in the story. In the following years, with its mission fulfilled, the same T-800 develops a form of conscience and takes the name "Carl". It atones for John's death by sending Sarah encrypted messages revealing the location of Skynet's future arriving Terminators, while Sarah takes it upon herself to track down and destroy them to avenge John and ensure that their technology will not be used to rebuild Skynet and John's sacrifice will not be in vain. Carl later joins

432-476: A command protocol to make Skynet sentient (Wendy had completed a program to erase Skynet before her death but John uploaded the wrong file at the last minute). In the final novel, T2: The Future War , Skynet has killed three billion people and John has become the leader of the Resistance, with Sarah and Dieter having fallen in love and married. The life between the parents of John's eventual father Kyle Reese

504-430: A detention center by Skynet, which is aware of Kyle's future role as John's father, classifying Kyle as its primary target and John as its secondary objective even over the Resistance's current leaders, and sets out to rescue Kyle, with Marcus leading him to the base. Upon arrival, John faces off with a T-800 crafted in the unit's image that he and his family have encountered previously. John is hurt during his encounter with

576-535: A direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day , portrayed by Jude Collie with CGI facial capture performed by Furlong, ignoring previous sequels without creator James Cameron's involvement. In the opening scene, set three years after the events of Judgment Day , it is revealed that even though Skynet was erased from existence with Cyberdyne's destruction, it had sent multiple Terminators back to different points in time to kill John. He and Sarah are found in Guatemala by

648-685: A former acquaintance of Dr. Rosen and Nina. Moreover, she voiced Kara Zor-El in the DC Comics original animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse . In 2012, Glau played the main character Christine in the Hallmark film Help for the Holidays , an elf who went on a special assignment to help a family regain their Christmas spirit. In 2013, Glau was a female lead in the horror comedy film Knights of Badassdom , in which she took up larping . During this time, she also had minor guest appearances on

720-418: A nuclear war is just so antithetical to life itself." That’s where the kid came from." In the fictional universe 's narrative , John Connor is a messianic figure (born on February 28, 1985) who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by the rogue military AI Skynet following a cybernetic revolt doomsday event known as Judgment Day. When his mother, Sarah Connor ,

792-456: A relatively normal life under the assumed names Suzanne and John Krieger, near a small town in Paraguay . They own a successful trucking company and are proficient smugglers. John also attends military school, quickly becoming one of their best students, gaining military skills, weaponry and hacking knowledge. The Connors believed that they had destroyed Cyberdyne Systems for good and prevented

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864-462: A reprogrammed Terminator infiltration unit sent back by future John Connor to protect John's younger self and his mother Sarah Connor from Skynet . The series' seventh episode, "The Demon Hand", featured several scenes in which Glau (in character as Cameron) dances ballet , including one set to Chopin 's Nocturne in C# Minor . Glau also played Allison Young (Cameron's human doppelgänger) in

936-498: A risk of Skynet being recreated at some future date. John ultimately bids his friend farewell with a hug, and watches as the Terminator is lowered into molten steel. In a flash-forward at the beginning of the film, John is briefly seen as an adult played by Michael Edwards . Dalton Abbot (Linda Hamilton's real-life son) portrays the character as a toddler in a dream sequence. An alternate ending takes place in 2027, in which John

1008-613: A role she later reprised for the show's feature film sequel Serenity . Her portrayal of River Tam , a girl who was intellectually gifted but mentally unstable due to being subject to government experimentation to create an assassins program, was widely praised and garnered her a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006. For her fight scenes in Serenity , she underwent 6 months of rigorous wushu training in Alhambra . In an interview, Glau indicated having previously auditioned for

1080-476: A safe to retrieve the first Terminator's damaged arm and CPU, which Dyson—unaware of what it would lead to—was using to create the new technology. After Cyberdyne is destroyed and the T-1000 is melted in a steel mill, John throws the remnants of the first Terminator into the molten steel. He begs the Terminator not to destroy itself as well, despite the Terminator's warning that allowing it to continue existing creates

1152-577: A secure bunker as the first nuclear assault is launched on the United States as a result of Skynet's manipulations. Skynet is pure software and has already spread to every server worldwide, making it impossible to shut down. It is via the radios in this bunker that John begins to broadcast messages to lay the groundwork to help survivors and organize the Resistance. John is portrayed by Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation (which

1224-431: A single computer system. Three years later, despite his superior physical strength, he was destroyed by "Pops" (Schwarzenegger), a T-800 reprogrammed and sent into the past by an unknown party to protect Sarah, when both of them were trapped inside a prototype time machine. With the machine just capable of generating the electromagnetic energy that prevented non-living tissue travelling through time without actually generating

1296-512: A temporal portal, Connor is ripped apart while trapped at the heart of the machine after earlier battle-damage disrupted his ability to maintain his organic shell. It is ambiguous as to whether a version of the character will exist in the altered timeline, with John himself stating that his existence is a paradox that is no longer tied to Sarah and Kyle conceiving him. John appears briefly in Terminator: Dark Fate , which serves as

1368-603: A wide variety of comic conventions across the United States and the world. She has also been an advocate for the science fiction fan community, such as through a promotional video for the Los Angeles Sci-fi World (to be opened in 2024). She has also supported wind energy in the 175th Anniversary of the Texas Revolution video series directed by Michael Cerny. In an interview from 2012, Glau has mentioned that one of her favorite movies during childhood

1440-575: Is a U.S. senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity. John is portrayed by Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (set 10 years after the second film). Now a young adult, John has been living off-the-grid after the second film's events, even as the original Judgment Day deadline in 1997 came to pass without incident. His mother Sarah eventually developed leukemia and died before

1512-614: Is also a resistance fighter sent back in time to help them. This version of John is shown to be a highly skilled computer hacker (a nod from Terminator 2 ), even being able to hack into a Terminator 's CPU in order to read the information it contains, as well as easily hacking into the LAPD database. He claims that he could hack a computer system 'in (his) sleep'. He is also proficient in chess , lock-picking, self-defense, and weaponry, all of which were part of his training during his childhood. The relationship dynamic between John and Cameron

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1584-536: Is being sent back to save Sarah Connor ( Emilia Clarke ), John is forcibly transformed into the T-3000 cyborg as a result of a Skynet program to use nanites to convert living flesh into machine matter. Although all other recorded test subjects for this process were left irreversibly insane and then died during the transformation, John came through the process reasonably intact, albeit now a sociopath dedicated to ensuring Skynet's rise at humanity's cost. Skynet then sends

1656-633: Is different than with the Model 101 seen in the second film by virtue of her size/gender, with some degree of sexual tension. He also develops a relationship with Riley Dawson, a high school classmate, who, unknown to him, is also from the future and working with Jesse Flores, a resistance fighter and lover of Derek Reese. Jesse's plan was for John to become infatuated with Riley, making her a threat to John's security. This would force Cameron to kill Riley, thereby alienating John from her. Apparently, after Judgment Day, rumors abound of an unnatural relationship between

1728-412: Is explored, with Kyle being born, being captured by a patrol unit as a child and forced to work in a Skynet work camp. The work camp is liberated by John and his Tech-Com unit, freeing Kyle and the other prisoners, while Kyle's parents are killed. John assigns his friend Jack Brock to protect Kyle, as well as becoming his foster father. Kyle grows up fighting alongside John and his Tech-Com unit. In 2029, as

1800-447: Is set in 2018), now an older, battle-experienced Resistance soldier. Kate Brewster ( Bryce Dallas Howard ), who serves as a medic, is now pregnant with his child. Kate also assists command with her Tech-Com unit. Since Judgment Day, John has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope. The story also features new character Marcus Wright ( Sam Worthington ), and

1872-415: Is shown to be pregnant with John. In his first appearance in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (a sequel to the first film), John is a 10-year-old child and a juvenile delinquent living with foster parents ( Jenette Goldstein and Xander Berkeley ) while Sarah Connor is in a prison hospital for the criminally insane. Though he is informed of his destiny—namely, his future conflict with Skynet—young John

1944-508: Is skeptical of his mother's claims about his fate as humanity's leader. While in an arcade with a friend, the Model 101 (Schwarzenegger), a reprogrammed android sent by John's future self, and the T-1000 ( Robert Patrick ) fight over him. This starts a chase sequence where the Model 101 and John try to lose the T-1000; the event validates Sarah's warning to John about Skynet. Later that night, Sarah puts an escape plan into action just as John and

2016-423: Is the target of a time traveling Terminator unit ( Model 101 ) in the first film, John sends resistance fighter Kyle Reese (depicted in certain continuities as his adoptive son) to protect Sarah, knowing Kyle and Sarah would later conceive him. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second and third films before Judgment Day. In the fourth film, John fights with

2088-403: The Terminator franchise . Created by writer / director James Cameron , the character is first referred to in the 1984 film The Terminator and first appears in its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( T2 ). In the character's first appearance, John is portrayed by Edward Furlong as a child, and briefly by Michael Edwards as an adult in a small role. Other actors have portrayed

2160-923: The SyFy Genre Awards for 2006. The nature of the character and her role in the franchise has garnered praise from various reviewers. Some have positively likened the character's erratic behavior to autism . Dr. Karin Beeler of the University of Northern British Columbia compared and contrasted River to Buffy Summers , protagonist of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise (also created by Joss Whedon), in her book Seers, "Witches" and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film . Beeler labeled

2232-651: The Academy's first subject "dying on the table." The first session clip indicates she has strong "intuitive" abilities and can easily understand complex subjects. In 2005, Glau won the SFX Magazine award for Best Actress for her role as River in Serenity . Glau later won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, again for her role as River in Serenity in May 2006. Glau was also runner up for Best Actress/Movie in

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2304-422: The Model 101 arrive to save her, and the three escape. John instructs the Model 101 on how to behave like a human being, teaching it sayings such as " Hasta la vista, baby! " He forms an emotional bond with the Terminator, coming to regard it as a father figure. John later helps avert Skynet's creation and assists in the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems. With the help of Skynet's creator, Miles Dyson, he breaks into

2376-491: The Resistance in a postapocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. As the series' central plot heavily involves time travel, the story of the character is often non-linear and portrays many possible outcomes, for example Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles continue from the ending of Terminator 2 but are depicted as taking place in alternate timelines , while Terminator Genisys (2015) revisits and changes

2448-526: The Resistance is about to destroy Skynet's defence grid, Skynet makes a last effort to win the war by sending several Terminators back in time to kill the Connors. Once John finds out about this, he sends the volunteering Kyle back to protect Sarah from the T-800 and a reprogrammed T-800 to protect his younger self from the T-1000. Afterwards, Skynet is effectively destroyed and John is greeted by Sarah, Dieter and

2520-519: The Resistance who have come to believe in John's experiences and judgment based on their own firsthand experiences serving with him. In addition, the Resistance's majority is gradually losing faith in the Resistance Command due to Ashdown's ruthless and vicious tactics that cost many of his own soldiers and civilians' lives. Toward the middle of the film, John learns that Kyle has been placed in

2592-467: The T-3000 back in time to ensure its creation in the altered timeline, John now believing that the future requires man and machine to come together like he has. He travels back in time to 2014 and joins Cyberdyne Systems to help create a new version of Skynet, working with Miles Dyson and Danny Dyson to perfect development of the new Genisys system, turning Skynet into a massive digital network rather than

2664-467: The T-800 and receives multiple cuts to the face, mirroring the same scars seen on John's face in the opening scenes of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines . Marcus helps him destroy the T-800 but John's heart is too badly damaged due to injury and Marcus offers his own to John. In addition, after the Resistance Command is caught in Skynet's trap, John's Tech-Com unit takes over

2736-479: The T-X encounters John, the T-X changes priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. Because of this Terminator being dominant and feminine, John personally coins the T-X as "Terminatrix." A protector T-850 (Schwarzenegger), a doppelgänger of John's previous protector, is also sent back in time to protect him, explaining that Judgment Day had only been delayed and is now only hours away. The T-850 also states being sent from

2808-587: The TV series Grey's Anatomy and Hawaii Five-0 . In the CW superhero series Arrow , Glau portrayed the recurring antagonist Isabel Rochev (Ravager) in its second season in 2013. She also guest starred as Olivia Frampton in season 2 of the black comedy series NTSF:SD:SUV:: . In 2014, Glau appeared in all 12 episodes of the TV series Sequestered , portraying a juror who seemed to have been involuntarily brought into larger conspiracy. Glau rejoined her Firefly co-star Nathan Fillion when she guest starred in

2880-588: The Terminator Cameron . John De Vito plays a young John Connor in two episodes "Queen's Gambit" and "To the Lighthouse". Dekker was cast after Lena Headey secured the role of Sarah Connor. Regarding the Terminator films, Dekker says "They are like my favorite films when I was younger. So it's very ironic that I'm getting to do this. And I know for the younger generation and for myself, John

2952-467: The authority with no opposition. John's ending statement is that though this battle has been won, the war is far from over. John is portrayed by Jason Clarke in Terminator Genisys (which alters the events of the four Terminator films that had been released prior). Following a confrontation with a T-5000 ( Matt Smith ) on the war's seemingly final day, just as Kyle Reese ( Jai Courtney )

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3024-464: The cast of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse for 4 episodes in season two. She portrayed Bennett, the programmer for a rival Dollhouse. She also portrayed the protagonist Lindsey in the 2010 film Deadly Honeymoon and supporting character Maggie in the 2011 film The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy , which was filmed close to her residence in Boerne , Texas . She also guest starred as Greta in

3096-407: The character an anti-heroine , in comparison to the more heroic role of Buffy Summers. Film critic and horror author Michael Marano also compared the character to Buffy, citing the two characters' combat prowess as similarities and describing River as the apotheosis of Joss Whedon's strong female characters. John Connor John Connor is a fictional character and the male protagonist of

3168-414: The character in subsequent films, including Nick Stahl , Christian Bale , and Jason Clarke . In addition, Thomas Dekker portrayed John Connor in the two-season television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles . The character serves as a protagonist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and Terminator Salvation (2009), the antagonist of

3240-429: The character, particularly those in Serenity , Glau's own experience in ballet dancing was incorporated into her fight choreography. During River's early childhood, she grew up alongside her brother, Simon , part of the wealthy Tam family on the "core" planet of Osiris. She was graceful and intellectually gifted. She is described as having a strong thirst for knowledge and a love for and intuitive grasp of dance. By

3312-428: The coming battles against Legion, explaining her similar role and quotes to John's in the future. Thomas Dekker portrays John Connor in the parallel universe television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles . He is only fifteen years old at the beginning of the show, turning sixteen in the season one finale, and seventeen throughout season two. As the series progresses, John struggles with his feelings for

3384-403: The creation of Skynet , until a new T-800 is sent to kill them. To stop Skynet's creation, the Connors team up with their new neighbor Dieter von Rossbach, a former Austrian counterterrorism operative and future model for the T-800 series. They also join forces with FBI agent Jordan Dyson, the brother of Miles Dyson . They ultimately realise that Cyberdyne was able to gain new research data from

3456-599: The early 2000s, she spent her time as a traveling dancer, living off paychecks from corporate events, weddings, and resort gigs. Glau's first television credit was a guest role on a 2002 episode of the television series Angel . In the episode, she was a prima ballerina who danced the titular character Giselle by Adolphe Adam . Having met director Joss Whedon in Angel , Glau was later cast in Whedon's critically acclaimed but short-lived TV series Firefly as River Tam ,

3528-416: The events of the first film. Terminator: Dark Fate also continues from the events of Terminator 2 in another alternate timeline. In The Terminator , John is mentioned and is the basis of the film. The Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) is attempting to kill Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton ) because the latter will be his mother, but John does not make a physical appearance. At the film's end, Sarah

3600-412: The events of the film. In the film, John crosses paths with Katherine "Kate" Brewster ( Claire Danes ), a former classmate from when he was living with his foster parents. He is attacked by a T-X Terminator ( Kristanna Loken ), which was sent from the future. Unlike predecessors, the T-X's objective is to terminate his future Resistance officers as secondary targets because John's location is unknown. When

3672-680: The fight against the Rev-9 , a Terminator built by a new A.I. known as Legion. The Rev-9 is sent from the future to kill Daniella "Dani" Ramos, who will take John's place as the future leader of the human resistance against machines. In the future, Dani tells her army, "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves," as John said to Kyle Reese before sending him back to 1984. As Carl and the Rev-9 are destroyed, Carl's final words to Sarah are "for John", therefore atoning for John's death by sacrificing itself. Like she did with John, Sarah plans to prepare Dani for

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3744-474: The film Terminator Genisys (2015), and has a brief cameo in Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). In a 2021 interview, James Cameron said that the song " Russians " by Sting inspired him to create John Connor: "I remember sitting there once, high on E, writing notes for Terminator , and I was struck by Sting’s song, that "I hope the Russians love their children too." And I thought, "You know what? The idea of

3816-472: The future Resistance a few months after the events of the previous novel. Dieter has been chosen as John's guardian by Sarah while she recovers from her wounds. Dieter, John, and John's new girlfriend, Wendy Dorset, head to a Cyberdyne back-up facility in Montana but they fail to stop Skynet from becoming sentient. Wendy is killed by an i-950, and Skynet begins eradicating humanity after John accidentally uploads

3888-402: The future by Kate, John’s future wife and second-in-command; John had actually been killed by that very Terminator on July 4, 2032, as Skynet believed to be the most suitable for such a mission due to John's emotional attachment to said model. John and Kate intend to halt Skynet's launching. The two mistakenly believe Skynet's core is in a facility, only to find themselves locked and protected in

3960-538: The future) to send all three of them to 2007, just before Skynet is created, so that they can stop it. Settling down in 2007, John enrolls in Campo de Cahuenga High School under the name of John Baum, after author L. Frank Baum who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , a book that Sarah says was John's favorite when he was younger, where he is friends with his fellow students Morris and Riley Dawson . He becomes acquainted with his father's older brother, Derek Reese , who

4032-653: The game she created has been stolen as part of a top secret project. Glau has also been featured in the short films Inside the Box and Dead End , as well as in the web series Jeff 1000 (portraying herself as the friend of a robot named Jeff) and The Human Preservation Project . Glau has been married to Val Morrison since 2014, whom she met on the set of Hawaii Five-0 . In January 2015, Glau gave birth to her first daughter. She gave birth to her second daughter in October 2017. Outside of film and TV, Glau has participated in

4104-482: The hands of Alliance doctors and scientists, River was secretly experimented on, including surgery that damaged her amygdala . According to Simon, the Alliance attempted to isolate River from her family, though she managed to send a call for help by putting a coded message in a letter to her brother. Simon decoded the message and set out to rescue his then sixteen-year-old sister, despite his parents' insistence that he

4176-609: The machines. John Connor appears in the video game Terminator: Resistance , which is set during the original future war depicted in the first two Terminator films. He is voiced by Eric Meyers and serves as the player character, Jacob Rivers's commanding officer within the Tech-Com Resistance group. John makes a physical appearance towards the endgame where he briefs and debriefs Jacob during the final assault on Skynet's base. Furlong reprised his role from Terminator 2 in this Universal Studios attraction, in which he and

4248-460: The remaining Resistance members as they are relieved that the great ordeal is finally over. John Connor appears in the non-canon Terminator/ Superman comic book crossover Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future , in which he and Sarah Connor essentially team up with Superman against Skynet and The Cyborg . While Superboy and Supergirl protect the young Connor in the present, Superman

4320-807: The role of a Power Ranger (White Wild Force Ranger Alyssa Enrilé) in Power Rangers Wild Force but lost to actress Jessica Rey before meeting Whedon. After Serenity , Glau appeared on the episode "Love Conquers Al" of the TV series Cold Case . She had a small role in the film Sleepover , in which she played the high school senior Shelly. She also appeared in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?", and season two of The Unit as Crystal Burns (the girlfriend of Jeremy Erhart from Michigan). In 2006, Glau played Tess Doerner ,

4392-414: The salvaged arm of "Uncle Bob", which was lost in the battle with the T-1000 and left trapped in the gears of the manufacturing plant. The group destroys Cyberdyne's most recent facility and the remaining Terminators, although Sarah is wounded by a new Terminator model, the i-950 Infiltrator, who had sent the T-800. The following novel, T2: Rising Storm , shows John and Dieter starting up the foundations of

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4464-593: The second-season episodes "Allison from Palmdale" and " Born to Run ". In 2008, she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her portrayal of Cameron. Glau guest starred as herself in a 2009 episode of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory . In the episode, she encountered the protagonists on a train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland , and Howard, Raj, and Leonard fought awkwardly for her affections. On August 26, 2009, Glau joined

4536-556: The teenage Kyle Reese ( Anton Yelchin ). John starts as one of the many foot soldiers who make up the Resistance movement based in California. Despite having extensive prior knowledge of the machines and Skynet's capabilities, John is largely dismissed by General Hugh Ashdown ( Michael Ironside ), who runs the resistance organization, considering Connor a delusional false prophet at best and a dangerous liability to their operations at worst. Nonetheless, there are pockets of people within

4608-425: The time she was fourteen years old, she had grown "bored" with her studies and enrolled in a graduate program for physics. It was at this point that she was sent to a government learning facility known as "The Academy". While her parents and Simon believed the Academy was a private school meant to nurture the gifts of talented children, it was in fact a cover for a government experiment in creating assassins. While in

4680-482: The two that affects John's tactical decision making, and some are unsettled that he has appointed a Terminator as one of his lieutenants. John Connor appears in the video game Terminator Salvation , which is set two years before the events of the film. In 2016, John (voiced by Gideon Emery ) and Blair Williams ( Moon Bloodgood ) are on a mission to rescue David Weston (Sean Cory Cooper), until they team up with Angie Salter ( Rose McGowan ) and Barnes ( Common ) to fight

4752-573: The web series Con Man (2015) as Martina and in Castle as Kendall Frost, an aspiring private detective who rivaled Fillion's protagonist. In 2018-2019, Glau was cast in the recurring role of Miss Jones on the Netflix crime drama series Wu Assassins . Furthermore, she provided narration in the Realm audio podcast Ctrl-Alt-Destroy, in which the protagonist was a video game designer who discovers that

4824-504: Was Camelot , and that she would be interested in acting in period pieces, such as in those written by Jane Austen . River Tam River is portrayed by Summer Glau in the 2002 TV series Firefly and the 2005 film Serenity . In 2005, Glau won the SFX magazine award for Best Actress for her role in Serenity . Glau later won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, again for her role as River in Serenity in May 2006. Glau

4896-599: Was a new "version of T3 ." At the beginning of the series in 1999, John and Sarah try to settle down to normal lives after the events of the second film, but they are in fear of being captured for blowing up Cyberdyne. While at school, John is attacked by a Terminator posing as a teacher, and is protected by a reprogrammed Terminator named " Cameron ". John learns that Judgment Day has not been prevented, only postponed to April 21, 2011. John does not want to run anymore and asks Sarah to stop Skynet from being created. Cameron uses time dilation technology (built by "The Engineer" from

4968-438: Was also runner up for Best Actress/Movie in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006. Joss Whedon selected Glau for the role after having previously worked with her on another of his shows, Angel . River Tam was Glau's first major role. Glau's inexperience assisted her in playing the character: she likened River's emotional withdrawal to her own initial apprehension on the set. In many of the hand-to-hand combat scenes featuring

5040-409: Was being paranoid. In his quest to locate and free River, Simon enlisted the aid of anti-governmental groups, exhausting his personal fortune and sacrificing a promising medical career. The R. Tam sessions depict her descent into insanity and portray hints of her psychic abilities . She references the "G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate", which would later be a plot point in the film Serenity , and mentions

5112-465: Was born in San Antonio , Texas , where she grew up with her two younger sisters Kaitlin and Christie. She is of Scots-Irish and German ancestry. Glau received a scholarship to a ballet company and was homeschooled from grades 3 to 12 to accommodate her ballet training. In addition to her classical ballet training, she has studied tango and flamenco . When Glau first moved to Los Angeles in

5184-481: Was equally important to me as Sarah was, and I know a lot of the people that I hear from really, really care about John". Dekker described his character as "a continuation of Eddie Furlong's character" but "he's in a darker, more mature place now". The show tells the story of the Connors in an alternate timeline from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines . It branches off from the shared back story of Terminator 2 , and according to consulting producer James Middleton, it

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