Karl Glusman
Karl Glusman (born January 3, 1988) is an American actor. He had a lead role in Gaspar Noé’s controversial pornographical drama "Love" (2015) 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 German-Jewish and his mother is Irish Catholic. He also has French, Finish, German, Spanish and Swedish ancestry. He attended Lake Oswego High School and then enrolled at Portland State University, but dropped out after  a year. Aspiring to be an actor, he took acting courses while in college and at the Portland Actors Conservatory. He later attended the William Esper Studio in New York City. Career. After shooting a television commercial for Adidas, Glusman relocated to France. There Argentine-French film director Gaspar 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 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.