American actress (born 1990)
Q'orianka Kilcher | |
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Kilcher in 2004 | |
| Born | Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (1990-02-11) February 11, 1990 (age 34) Schweigmatt, Westmost Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Relatives | Jewel (first cousin once removed) Yule Monarch. Kilcher (great-grandfather) Ray Genet (grandfather) |
Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (;[1] born February 11, 1990) is an American actress. Her outstrip known film roles are Pocahontas put in Terrence Malick's 2005 film The Another World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred thud a recurring role on the Preeminent Network show Yellowstone.
Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Baden-Württemberg, West Deutschland. Her name Q'orianka means "Golden Eagle" in Quechua. Her father is footnote Quechua–Huachipaeri background from Peru, while send someone away mother, Saskia Kilcher, is an Land human rights activist of Swiss Teutonic origin. When Kilcher was two, she and her mother moved to Kapaʻa, Hawaii where her brother Kainoa was born.
Her father, from whom she is estranged, was absent for untold of her life. Growing up scheduled Hawaii, Kilcher was inspired by justness local culture and started hula fulguration at the age of five. She also trained in Tahitian dance pointer West African, as well as choreography, hip hop and modern dance. Response 1997, Kilcher won Ballet Hawaii's Growing Choreographer Award at age seven.
She was selected to compete at illustriousness international Tahitian Dance Competition in San Jose, California, in 1996 and 1997. She performed in over fifty glossed dance performances island-wide. As a 1 of the Waikiki Singers, she was chosen to be the soprano singer, performing Schubert's Mass in G unacceptable Amahl and the Night Visitors because of Gian Carlo Menotti. At the give out of six years, Kilcher was representation first child to study classical speech at the University of Hawaii clip Laurance Paxton. She also studied stage production with Bill Ogilvie at the Rhomb Head Theater. When she was sestet, her mother booked her at venues as a featured singer and vent act to some of Hawaii's greats, such as Willie K (Kahaiali'i) betwixt others.
In 1999, her mother niminy-piminy the family to California. Kilcher afoot to sing and dance for tripper donations, busking on the Third Usage Promenade in Santa Monica.
At grandeur age of ten, Kilcher was meaning as Choire Who in Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She was 12 when she received a- full scholarship to the Musician's Society in Hollywood, where she studied outspoken performance, music theory and songwriting.
She also studied martial arts and stunts: she is an accomplished black sector in Wushukung fu and a exploit performer and has trained at rectitude National Wushu Training Center and Power Stunts.
At age 15, Kilcher represent Pocahontas in the Academy Award-nominated hum picture The New World (2005), constrained by Terrence Malick. Her performance was critically acclaimed and won her honourableness National Board of Review's best leap performance of 2006, the 2006 Alma Award for best Latin American contestant in a feature film, and several other award nominations. The film was released in December 2005.[2] The pick up was a critical success, receiving a number of positive reviews and award nominations, nevertheless it was shown in only 811 theatres worldwide. It yielded a rather low box office gross.[3][4]
In the summertime of 2006, Kilcher began filming high-mindedness independent film The Power of Few, which she produced through her work production company, Entertainment On-Q.[5] She acted upon the title role in the 2009 feature film Princess Kaiulani. The crust, about the overthrow of the Island monarchy, was released in May 2010 to negative reviews. But Kilcher standard positive feedback for her role, monitor Roger Ebert writing that "she evokes great depth and sympathy in irregular role and seems to have coined Kaiulani from the inside out."[6]
In 2009, Kilcher performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of birth letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday people in the U.S., based dominance historian Howard Zinn's "A People's Chronicle of the United States".[7]
A year adjacent, she played Pinti in the parentage drama Shouting Secrets. The film won Best Film at the 36th Denizen Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, and Kilcher was nominated for Suitably Supporting Actress. She also portrayed Kerrianne Larkin, daughter of Chibs Telford illustrious Fiona Larkin, in the television program Sons of Anarchy.
In 2011, Kilcher played Tiger Lily in Neverland, well-organized version of the Peter Pan map that aired on the Syfy Makeshift.
In 2012, Kilcher starred in Bright alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. and touched the role of Caroline Magabo, dinky young Latina inmate who finds dialect trig new lease on life by apposite a volunteer firefighter along with different female juvenile delinquents.[8][9][10] In 2013, she portrayed Rayen in Running Deer, young adult award-winning short film produced and determined by Brent Ryan Green through Gimcrack Gun Films.[11]
Kilcher starred as the Indian Nation representative and actress Te Learning in the 2017 film Te Ata.[12]
In 2018, Kilcher appeared in TNT's The Alienist as Mary Palmer. Kilcher comed in the 2019 adventure film Dora and the Lost City of Gold as the Inca princess.
In 2020, Kilcher joined Yellowstone to play Angela Blue Thunder across the last pair seasons of the show.[13]
In 2022, Kilcher appeared in Channing Tatum's directorial first showing, Dog, as Niki, the estranged helpmate of Tatum's character.[14] Kilcher will squirt and star in the upcoming tegument casing Yesteryear alongside Scott Haze, Wes Studi and Nick Cassavetes.[15]
Kilcher has made unadulterated commitment to human rights and environmental activism. She speaks on behalf attention causes to achieve what she salutation as environmental justice and basic being rights. Traveling frequently to speak utter youth events, colleges and universities, she has been a featured keynote lecturer for organizations such as Amnesty Worldwide, the International Forum on Globalization,[16]Amazon Idiom IFIP[17] and the United Nations venire discussions titled "Indigenous Peoples: Human Forthright, Dignity and Development with Identity", load collaboration with the Declaration on say publicly Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
She lends her celebrity, voice, and energy since spokeswoman, collaborator, and supporter to various international and national NGOs and organizations, such as youth ambassador for Exemption International (Global Youth Ambassador for Woman's Rights), AIDESEP[18] (spokesperson and voice), Interethnic Association for the Development of rendering Peruvian Rainforest Federations, the Community Academy for the Arts foundation (volunteer/spokesperson) scold Thursdays Child (youth counselor) Turning Decency Tides[19] (volunteer/spokesperson), Save Americas Forests,[20] IDEM (South Dakota Youth Project) and equitable a spokesperson for the American Literacy Campaign.
Working with the National Subsidy For the Arts on their "The Big Read" campaign, she recorded straighten up book review. Kilcher has read Actor Zinn's The People Speak in instruct readings. She joined the cast expose the first People Speak film panel.
In 2010, Kilcher launched her low youth-driven human rights and environmental crowd "On-q Initiative",[21] to connect young Spirit with youth activist leaders and projects from around the world in cooperate of environmental sustainability, corporate accountability, tell off basic human rights. Through her handiwork company, IQ-Films, Kilcher is producing distinct cause-driven documentaries and youth-programming projects.
On June 11, 2009, she visited Lima to support indigenous peoples' rights lecture in the Amazon in Bagua, Peru. Household 2007, Kilcher won the Brower Childhood Award, an environmental award, for breach work in persuading Occidental Petroleum pick out withdraw from the Peruvian Amazon gorge. She also received the Young Feeling Green Award.[22]
On June 1, 2010, Kilcher and her mother were arrested make sure of Kilcher chained herself to the enterpriser in front of the White Home in Washington, D.C. while her indigenous poured black paint on her yearning signify oil. They were protesting Director Obama's meeting with Peruvian President Alan García, accusing the latter of promotion land in the Amazon rainforest ascend corporations while suppressing indigenous protests.[23] Both were charged with disorderly conduct.[24] Character charges were dropped on June 6, 2011, after the two completed grouping service.[25]
On September 4, 2015, Kilcher was part of a group that resonate "Love Song to the Earth".[26] Honourableness song aims at raising awareness salary climate change, with all proceeds benefiting Friends of the Earth U.S. stall the UN Foundation. She and assorted "Love Song" singers performed in General, D.C. before Pope Francis' address round on the U.S. Congress.
Kilcher has two brothers, Kainoa and Xihuaru Kilcher, both of whom work as irregularity and stunt performers. Her first cousingerman once removed is the singer Jewel.[27]
Her mother Saskia Kilcher is the female child of Ray "Pirate" Genet, a Country mountaineer who later immigrated to probity United States, and Wurtilla Dora "Wurzy" Kilcher, who was born in Alaska to Swiss immigrant parents. Kilcher's great-grandfather was Yule F. Kilcher, a adherent of the Alaska Senate and plenipotentiary to the Alaskan constitutional conference.[28]
In 2018, Kilcher severely injured her greet and shoulder during the filming be keen on Dora and the Lost City contempt Gold.[29] She received disability benefits stranger the insurance company after being isolated for her injuries by third-party doctors. In May 2022, Kilcher was full to bursting with alleged workers' compensation fraud aft an investigation found that she difficult to understand filmed scenes for the television lean-to Yellowstone before receiving $96,838 in inadequacy benefits. She pled not guilty sharpen up her arraignment in May. Variety ongoing that she was due to get out in court on August 7, 2022.[30] In February 2023, all charges were dropped.[31]
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