Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone is an American actor. She made her film debut in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2012) and collaborated with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt in the independent films 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).

Gladstone earned critical acclaim for playing Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese's crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), receiving several accolades. She became the first Native American to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the second to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Gladstone was born on August 2, 1986, in Kalispell, Montana. Raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana, she is of Piegan Blackfeet (Siksikaitsitapi), Nez Perce (Nimíipuu), and European heritage. Her mother is white and her father is Blackfeet and Nez Perce. On her mother's side, she descends from the first cousin of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. One of her paternal great-great grandfathers was Kainai Nation chief Red Crow.

Gladstone goes by both she and they pronouns. She explained in 2023, "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." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Gladstone
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