Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone has emerged as one of the finest, most subtle actors of her generation, quietly building a remarkable filmography since 2012, when she debuted in a supporting role in Arnaud Desplechin’s first film set in the U.S., Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), starring Benicio del Toro, Mathieu Almaric, Gary Farmer, Misty Upham, and A Martinez, and premiering in competition at the Cannes film festival.

Gladstone’s second big-screen role was a supporting turn in Winter in the Blood (2013), based on the best-seller by fellow Blackfeet member James Welch, written and directed by brothers Alex and Andrew J. Smith, and produced by Native American author Sherman Alexie.

Just three years after her film debut, Lily Gladstone won (among several others) the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actress for her powerfully subdued breakthrough performance opposite Kristen Stewart in Kelly Reichardt’s marvelous Certain Women (2016), co-starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, James Le Gros, and Jared Harris, premiering at the Sundance film festival and becoming Reichardt’s most profitable movie to date.

Gladstone joined the cast of indie filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith’s surrealist Buster’s Mal Heart (2016), with Rami Malek, DJ Quails, Kate Lyn Sheil, Lin Shaye, and Nicholas Pryor, and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Gladstone reunited with the Smith brothers for their adventure drama, Walking Out (2017), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and co-starred Matt Bomer, Bill Pullman, Chaske Spencer, and Josh Wiggins.

Gladstone was once again tapped by filmmaker Reichardt for a supporting role in her fine period drama, First Cow (2019), co-starring John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, and Gary Farmer, and premiering at the Telluride film festival before winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle. Lily Gladstone had her first starring role and first screenplay credit in the highly-praised indie film by director/co-writer Morissa Maltz, The Unknown Country (2022), with Raymond Lee and Richard Ray Whitman, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

After joining the cast of The Last Manhunt (2022), based on a story derived from true events by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett and cast member Jason Momoa, Gladstone starred in writer-director Erica Tremblay’s acclaimed drama set on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation, Fancy Dance (2023), with a cast including Shea Whigham and Audrey Wasilewski, and premiering at the Sundance film festival. Lily Gladstone was cast in her biggest role to date opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s epic, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), with Robert De Niro, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.