Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone
Gladstone in 2024
Born (1986-08-02) August 2, 1986 (age 40)
Kalispell, Montana, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Montana (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active2012–present
RelativesRed Crow (great-great grandfather)

Lily Gladstone (born August 2, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for playing Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese's crime drama movie Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). She won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for this role, while being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2024, she appeared in the television series Under the Bridge and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Early life

Gladstone was born in Kalispell, Montana. She was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana and Seattle, Washington. Gladstone is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce, and European heritage.

Gladstone always wanted to play an Ewok after watching Return of the Jedi at the age of five and this inspired her to become an actress. In 2008 she graduated from the University of Montana with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting/Directing and a Native American Studies minor.

Career

Gladstone appeared in several independent movies such as Certain Women (2016) and First Cow (2019). She also appeared in episodes of HBO's Room 104 (2017–2020), Showtime's Billions (2016–2023), and FX's Reservation Dogs (2021–2023).

In 2023, Gladstone appeared as Mollie Kyle in the Martin Scorsese movie Killers of the Flower Moon. In 2024, she became the first Native American to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award and is the first to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 2024, she starred in the crime drama miniseries Under the Bridge. This role earned her a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Personal life

Gladstone goes by both she and they pronouns. She said that "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."

Notes

  1. ↑ Gladstone uses both she/her and they/them pronouns; this article uses she/her pronouns for consistency.

References

  1. 1 2 Andersson, Eric (December 31, 2023). "Lily Gladstone on Why She Uses She/They Pronouns: A Way of 'Decolonizing Gender for Myself' (Exclusive)". People.
  2. 1 2 Stenzel, Wesley (January 1, 2024). "'Killers of the Flower Moon' star Lily Gladstone says using she/they pronouns is 'a way of decolonizing gender'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  3. 1 2 Parkel, Inga (January 2, 2024). "Killers of the Flower Moon star embraces she/they pronouns to 'decolonise gender'". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Buchanan, Kyle (January 6, 2024). "Lily Gladstone Won't Let Hollywood Put Her in a Box". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
  5. ↑ Staff, Native News Online (January 7, 2024). "Lily Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nimíipuu) Wins Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Golden Globes Award". Native News Online. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  6. ↑ Wippel, Teresa (October 7, 2012). "Arts Around Terrace: MTHS grad Lily Gladstone's acting dreams coming true". MLTnews. Archived from the original on October 24, 2023. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  7. ↑ Seventh Row, An acting masterclass with Lily Gladstone and Frank Mosley (Lockdown Film School #9), retrieved October 24, 2023, I really wanted to grow up to be an Ewok. Loved that life. Was all about it.
  8. ↑ Smith, Orla (July 25, 2020). "Lily Gladstone on Kelly Reichardt and her love of linguistics". Seventh Row. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  9. ↑ Meyer, Carla (November 28, 2023). "Don't know Lily Gladstone? The 'Killers of the Flower Moon' star is no newcomer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  10. ↑ Zuckerman, Esther (January 7, 2024). "Lily Gladstone Becomes First Indigenous Person to Win a Golden Globe for Best Actress". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ "Lily Gladstone makes history with SAG Award win for Killers of the Flower Moon". Radio Times.
  12. ↑ Gonzalez, Shivani (July 17, 2024). "Emmy Nominees 2024: The Complete List". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2024.

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