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Meet Glen Powell’s parents

“I’m lucky to have your love in my life every day.”

Sarah Kester - Author

If you’re wondering where Glen Powell gets his charming personality, just look at his parents. Cyndy and Glen Powell Sr. have gone viral for regularly appearing at his promotional events for his films. In July, they showed up with funny signs for Glen’s interview at the Today show. They have also had a cameo in each of his films, including his latest blockbuster, Vortex.

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Suffice it to say, Glen Powell’s parents deserve all the credit for raising a stand-up son. Keep reading to learn all about the people who raised him.

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Glen Powell’s parents had cameos in all of his films.

“They’ve made it since Spy Children 3“, Glen admitted on the Today show. “Yes, literally since Spy Children 3. I think they’ve been in each of them.”

In Everyone but youhis romantic comedy with Sydney Sweeney, in which they played airline passengers on a flight to Australia.

“The funniest thing about that scene is that my dad is the real method actor,” Glen said Entertainment weeklyjoking that his father “slept like ice.”

“I’m sitting there while Sydney is trying to do calisthenics on my face and is often slipping and falling on me, and I have to make sure I don’t break. Whereas my dad, he’s the Daniel Day-Lewis of sleep acting,” he explained. “There was not a false beat in that performance.”

Eagle-eyed fans will even spot them in Vortex“There’s a great scene halfway through a rodeo scene in the movie and they’re right behind Daisy Edgar-Jones and me,” he told the Today Show.

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Where is Glen Powell from?

Glen Powell Sr. proposed to Cyndy in 1983 in Washington. “A quick trip to the base of the Jefferson Memorial … where my dad proposed to my mom 40 years ago. Happy anniversary,” Glen captioned photos of his parents reenacting the proposal. “Fortunate to have your love in my life every day.”

Glen has two other siblings: an older sister, Lauren Powell Whatton, and a younger sister, Leslie Powell. His parents raised their close-knit family in Austin, Texas, where Glen was born.

They have always supported his acting dream. He said Austin Monthly that he first fell in love with movies after he Jurassic Park with his father as a child.

“I didn’t know if I was going to be a writer, an actor, a producer or an entertainment lawyer,” he said. “I just knew I wanted to be in the business.” To support his dreams, the actor said his parents put him in acting classes.

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