Lily Gladstone Trivia | 30 facts about the famous actress

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.

Let’s find out more about the protagonist of the «Killers of the Flower Moon»!

1. Lily Gladstone was born August 2, 1986.
2. She is an American actress.
3. Her zodiac sign is Leo.
4. 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).
5. She earned critical acclaim for playing Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
6. For this role she earned several awards.
7. She’s the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
8. 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).
9. A desire to portray an Ewok after watching Return of the Jedi at the age of five inspired her to become an actress.
10. One of Gladstone’s first acting experiences as a child was when Missoula Children’s Theatre came to her East Glacier, Montana, hometown.
11. She was castes as an evil step-sister in Cinderella.
12. Gladstone’s family moved to the Seattle area during her middle school years to be closer to her grandmother.
13. There she enrolled in Stone Soup Theatre, a non profit educational theatre company for the Seattle youth, starring in student films and theses.
14. In 2004 she graduated from Mountlake Terrace High School in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.
15. In 2008 she graduated from the University of Montana with a BFA in Acting/Directing and a Native American Studies minor.
16. At University of Montana, she became interested in Theatre of the Oppressed.
17. At UM, she performed in Riders to the Sea (2006), Richard III (2006), Miss Julie (2007) and Coyote on a Fence (2008).
18. Upon graduating, she taught acting classes and workshops in her native community.
19. She taught an image theatre acting method she called a “sculpture garden” as violence prevention sponsored by the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. She also received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.
23. Lily Gladstone performed the role of Kate Keller in the 2014 Montana Repertory Theatre’s national touring production of The Miracle Worker.
24. Lily Gladstone was in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company in 2017.
25. She starred in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta in 2020.
26. In 2017, Gladstone hosted a series on the educational YouTube channel Crash Course about film production.
27. Gladstone goes by both she and they pronouns.
28. 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.”
29. Her father worked in broadcast journalism and is of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu descent, while her mother, an early childhood education specialist, is white.
30. Cousin of Montana’s native singer and storyteller, Jack Gladstone.