Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Posted January 10 by Victoria Will Lily Gladstone (born August 2, 1986) is an American actress. She[a] 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). They earned critical acclaim for playing Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese's crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), winning several awards, including being the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Early life and education Gladstone was born in 1986. Raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana, she is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce, and European heritage and grew up on the reservation of the Blackfeet Nation. Her mother is white and their father is Blackfeet and Nez Perce. On their mother's side, she is a 1st cousin, 4 times removed of William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister. One of their paternal great-great grandfathers was Red Crow, a Kainai Nation chief. They have cited the desire to portray an Ewok after watching Return of the Jedi at the age of 5 as inspiring her to become an actress. One of Gladstone's first acting experiences as a child was when the Missoula Children's Theatre came to East Glacier to put on Cinderella and she was cast as one of the evil stepsisters. Gladstone's family moved to the Seattle area during their middle school years to be closer to their grandmother. There she was enrolled in Stone Soup Theatre, a non profit educational theatre company for the Seattle youth, which then led to starring in student films and theses. They graduated from Mountlake Terrace High School in Mountlake Terrace, Washington in 2004. Gladstone attended the University of Montana where she studied Theatre of the Oppressed. At UM, they performed in Riders to the Sea (2006), Richard III (2006), Miss Julie (2007) and Coyote on a Fence (2008). She graduated in 2008 with a BFA in Acting/Directing and a minor in Native American Studies. Upon graduating, she taught acting classes and workshops in her native community. She taught an image theatre acting method they 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. Career Gladstone made their film debut in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2012). She then acted in Winter in the Blood (2012) and Buster's Mal Heart (2016) before making her career breakthrough as Jamie, a rancher, in Kelly Reichardt's film Certain Women (2016). 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. Gladstone performed the role of Kate Keller in the 2014 Montana Repertory Theatre's national touring production of The Miracle Worker. Gladstone was in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company in 2017 and 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 starred in the 2022 film The Unknown Country, directed by Morrisa Maltz, for which they received the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance. She had a small role in Reichardt's 2019 film First Cow before being cast in the lead role of Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese's feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, which was released theatrically in October 2023. Their performance received critical acclaim and was described as a highlight of the film. Critic Josh Spiegel of /Film said that she "brought [Mollie] to life with incredible passion". In 2024, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama; they were the first Indigenous woman to be nominated for, and the first to win, an acting Golden Globe. Personal life 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." Source: wikipedia Quote
Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 Lily Gladstone, winner of the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, poses in the press room during the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 07, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California Quote
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Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 LILY GLADSTONE for Interview Magazine (2023) photographed by Tina Tyrell Quote
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Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 Love this pic 😍 Lily Gladstone wearing Rodarte for Elle Magazine November 2023 photographed by Mark Seliger Quote
Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 LILY GLADSTONE The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable (2024) Quote
Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 LILY GLADSTONE W Magazine Best Performances (2024) photographed by Juergen Teller Quote
Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 US actress Lily Gladstone arrives for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 14th Annual Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles on January 9, 2024. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images) Quote
Jade Bahr Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 Well the yearbook was probably right about that 😄 Lily Gladstone in her high school yearbook named most likely to win an Oscar (2003/2004). Twenty years later she stars in Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Quote
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