Griffin Gluck

Gluck was born in Los Angeles. His father, Cellin Gluck [ja], is a film director and producer, and his mother, Karin Beck, was a production assistant and line producer. Griffin's father was born in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, to American parents, and was raised partly in Kobe, Japan.^[2][3][4][5] Griffin's paternal grandparents were Sumi (Hiramoto), a Japanese American,^[6] and Jay Gluck, a Jewish American archaeologist, historian, and Japanophile.^[2][7] Gluck attended Bard College in New York state for one semester before dropping out, where he studied film and photography.^[8][9]

Gluck started acting when he went with his older sister, Caroline, to a summer children's showcase of Guys 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 film Just Go with It,^[11] for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination. He was later cast as Mason Warner on Private Practice, and was then upped to series regular on the show.^[12] After the series was cancelled, he joined a TV pilot called Back in the Game from 20th 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 series Red 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 movie Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, based on the hit novel by James Patterson.

In 2019, Gluck joined Netflix fantasy horror series Locke & Key as a series regular^[18] and remained on the show for three seasons.