Lily Gladstone is an American actress, who was the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
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- Lily Gladstone was born August 2, 1986.
- She is an American actress.
- Her zodiac sign is Leo.
- She made her film debut in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2012), and went on to collaborate with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt in the independent films Certain Women (2016) and First Cow (2019).
- She earned critical acclaim for playing Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
- For this role she earned several awards.
- She’s the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
- Gladstone has also appeared in episodes of HBO’s Room 104 (2017–2020), Showtime’s Billions (2016–2023), and FX’s Reservation Dogs (2021–2023).
- A desire to portray an Ewok after watching Return of the Jedi at the age of five inspired her to become an actress.
- One of Gladstone’s first acting experiences as a child was when Missoula Children’s Theatre came to her East Glacier, Montana, hometown.
- She was castes as an evil step-sister in Cinderella.
- Gladstone’s family moved to the Seattle area during her middle school years to be closer to her grandmother.
- There she enrolled in Stone Soup Theatre, a non profit educational theatre company for the Seattle youth, starring in student films and theses.
- In 2004 she graduated from Mountlake Terrace High School in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.
- In 2008 she graduated from the University of Montana with a BFA in Acting/Directing and a Native American Studies minor.
- At University of Montana, she became interested in Theatre of the Oppressed.
- At UM, she performed in Riders to the Sea (2006), Richard III (2006), Miss Julie (2007) and Coyote on a Fence (2008).
- Upon graduating, she taught acting classes and workshops in her native community.
- She taught an image theatre acting method she called a “sculpture garden” as violence prevention sponsored by the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.
- In 2010, she performed in The Frybread Queen, a co-production by Native Voices at the Autry, the UM School of Theatre and Dance and The Montana Repertory Theatre.
- The role earned Gladstone the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- She also received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.
- Lily Gladstone performed the role of Kate Keller in the 2014 Montana Repertory Theatre’s national touring production of The Miracle Worker.
- Lily Gladstone was in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company in 2017.
- She starred in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta in 2020.
- In 2017, Gladstone hosted a series on the educational YouTube channel Crash Course about film production.
- Gladstone goes by both she and they pronouns.
- Gladstone says, “In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there’s only they… my pronoun use is partly a way of decolonizing gender for myself.”
- Her father worked in broadcast journalism and is of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu descent, while her mother, an early childhood education specialist, is white.
- Cousin of Montana’s native singer and storyteller, Jack Gladstone.
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