Karl Glusman

Karl Glusman (born January 3, 1988) is an American 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 when he was six months old to raise him in the Portland area. He is of German, Russian Jewish, Swedish and Irish descent. He attended Lake Oswego High School, and then enrolled at Portland State University, but dropped out after a year. He took acting courses while in college, as well as at the Portland Actors Conservatory. Aspiring to be an actor, he later attended the William Esper Studio in New York.

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. Kravitz announced their engagement in an interview published in the November 2018 issue of Rolling Stone.