Karl Glusman

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

Early life Glusman was born in The Bronx, New York City. His family moved to the Portland, Oregon area when he was six months old. His father is of German Jewish descent and his mother is of Irish Catholic ancestry. He attended Lake Oswego High School and then enrolled at Portland State University, but dropped out after a year.

Career

After shooting a television commercial for Adidas, Glusman relocated to France, where Argentine-French film director Gaspar Noé cast him in Love, a film depicting extensive unsimulated sex. It debuted at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The premiere set a record for the festival, selling all 2,200 seats in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. In Cannes, Glusman met film director and fashion designer Tom Ford, who cast him in Nocturnal Animals (2016). Also in 2016, Glusman appeared in Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller The Neon Demon. In 2020, he appeared alongside Tom Hanks in Aaron Schneider's Greyhound.

Personal life In 2016, Glusman began a relationship with actress Zoë Kravitz. Kravitz revealed in an interview published in October 2018 that she had become engaged in February of that year. They were married June 29, 2019, at the Paris, France, home of Kravitz's father, musician Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz filed for divorce on December 23, 2020, after 18 months of marriage. The divorce was finalized in August 2021.

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