Biography

Lily Gladstone (born August 2, 1986) is a Native American/European American actress. Raised on the Blackfeet Reservation, Gladstone is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce, Native American and European (Dutch and Cajun) American heritage. She earned critical acclaim for portraying Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman who survived the Osage Indian murders, in Martin Scorsese's crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), receiving several accolades. She is the first Native American to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Gladstone made her feature film debut in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2012) and collaborated with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on the independent films Certain Women (2016) and First Cow (2019).