Griffin Gluck
Gluck in 2016
Born	Griffin Alexander Gluck (2000-08-24)August 24, 2000 (age 25) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Bard College
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present
Known for	Why Him? Big Time Adolescence Locke & Key
Relatives	Jay Gluck (paternal grandfather)

Griffin Alexander Gluck^[1] (born August 24, 2000) is an American actor. Gluck began his career as achild actor in comedy films such asJust Go with It (2011) andWhy Him? (2016). He had his first leading role as a comatose teenager in the drama seriesRed Band Society (2014–2015) and gained acclaim for playing a young film prodigy in theNetflix mockumentary seriesAmerican Vandal (2017–2018) and asGabe/Dodge in the Netflix horror seriesLocke & Key (2020–2022). He also had further leading roles in comedy filmsBig Time Adolescence (2019);Tall Girl (2019) andits 2022 sequel; andNorth Hollywood (2021). He appeared in the second season of theFreeform thriller anthologyCruel Summer (2023).

Gluck was born inLos Angeles. His father,Cellin Gluck [ja], is a film director and producer, and his mother, Karin Beck, was a production assistant andline producer. Griffin's father was born inWakayama Prefecture, Japan, to American parents, and was raised partly inKobe, Japan.^[2][3][4][5] Griffin's paternal grandparents were Sumi (Hiramoto), aJapanese American,^[6] andJay Gluck, aJewish American archaeologist, historian, andJapanophile.^[2][7] Gluck attendedBard College inNew York state for one semester before dropping out, where he studied film and photography.^[8][9]

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Gluck started acting when he went with his older sister, Caroline, to a summer children's showcase ofGuys and Dolls at the Palisades Playhouse.^[10] His first major role was as a three-year-old in a short film,Time Out, co-produced by his father and directed by Robbie Chafitz.

His big break came in 2011, when he played Michael in the filmJust Go with It,^[11] for which he received aYoung Artist Award nomination. He was later cast as Mason Warner onPrivate Practice, and was then upped to series regular on the show.^[12] After the series was cancelled, he joined a TV pilot calledBack in the Game from20th Century Fox TV.^[13] It was picked to series.^[14] The show was canceled in November 2013^[15]

In 2014, Gluck co-starred as Charlie on the Fox seriesRed Band Society, in which his character, who is in a coma, is the narrator of the show.^[16] In March 2015, he was cast in an NBC pilot,Cuckoo, which was not picked for series.^[17]

Gluck had his first film lead role playing Rafe Khatchadorian in the 2016 movieMiddle School: The Worst Years of My Life, based on the hit novel byJames Patterson.

Gluck was nominated in the "Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor" category for his work inJust Go with It at the33rd Young Artist Awards.^[22]

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