Saturday, April 13, 2024

Actress Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone is an actress of Native American heritage.


Of Blackfoot and Nez Perce ancestry as well as Anglo-Saxon heritage. she made a big name for herself by playing portraying Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman who survived Osage Nation murders in 1920s Oklahoma, in Martin Scorsese's 2023 crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.  Ms. Gladstone won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award from the 2024 Golden Globe for her performance, and she was also nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for it.

Ms. Gladstone has also appeared in a couple of TV series, including episodes of HBO's "Room 104" and   FX's "Reservation Dogs," a comedy-drama about Native American teeangers in Oklahoma.

Fun Fact: Lily Gladstone is a descendant of a first cousin of nineteenth-century British prime minister William Gladstone. 

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