Karl Glusman

Karl Glusman
Born (1988-01-03) January 3, 1988
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Education Lake Oswego High School
Occupation Actor
Years active 2008–present

Karl Glusman (born January 3, 1988) is an American film actor. He had a lead role in Gaspar Noé's controversial drama Love (2015), and has also appeared in The Neon Demon (2016) and Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016).

Early life

Glusman was born in The Bronx, New York, where his parents met while studying medicine. The family moved to Oregon while he was six months old to raise him in the Portland area.[1] He is of German Jewish and Irish descent.[2] He attended Lake Oswego High School, and then enrolled at Portland State University, but dropped out after a year.[1] He took acting courses while in college, as well as at the Portland Actors Conservatory.[1] Aspiring to be an actor, he later attended the William Esper Studio in New York.[3]

Career

After shooting a television commercial for Adidas, Glusman flew to France with the intention to start a new beginning after ending a relationship.There, through a mutual acquaintance, he met acclaimed Argentine-French film director Gaspar Noé. Noé cast Glusman in Love, a film depicting extensive unsimulated sex. It debuted at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The premier set a record for the festival, selling out all 2,200 seats in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. It was in Cannes where Glusman met film director and fashion designer Tom Ford, who would then cast him in his film, Nocturnal Animals (2016). Also in 2016, he appeared in Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller The Neon Demon.

Personal Life

Since 2016, Glusman has been in a relationship with actress Zoë Kravitz. [4]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2008The IconographerYoung thug
2012Starship Troopers: InvasionGunfodderVoice role
2012Blow UpNickShort film
2013Summer House AndrewShort film
2015RatterBrent
2015StonewallJoe Altman
2015LoveMurphy
2015EmbersChaos
2016The Neon DemonDean
2016Nocturnal AnimalsLou
2017GypsySam DuffyTelevision series
2018Above SuspicionJoe-Bea
2019TransgressionPost-production
2019 Greyhound Post-production

References

  1. 1 2 3 Baker, Jeff (November 3, 2015). "Karl Glusman goes from Lake Oswego to stardom in a sexually explicit French 3-D movie". The Oregonian. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Karl Glusman". Broadway World. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Setoodeh, Ramin (October 31, 2015). "'Love': How Karl Glusman Was Cast in Gaspar Noe's 3D Erotica". Variety. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  4. ↑ https://www.vogue.com/article/zoe-kravitz-karl-glusman-couples-style


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