Riley Keough
American
actress Danielle Riley Keough. Born in Santa Monica, California, to musicians
Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough, she is a grandchild of the actress
Priscilla Presley and singer Elvis Presley. Keough was raised mostly by her
father in Hawaii and Los Angeles, and additionally spent time residing with her
mother in California and Tennessee. At the age 15 she began modelling. She was
featured in Dolce &Gabbana's fashion shows as well as Christian Dior's
and on Vogue's cover. Keough's feature film debut was at 20 years old as she
was cast in a minor role as Marie Currie in The Runaways (2010). In the
following years, she was a part of the thriller independent film The Good
Doctor (2011) and the horror film Jack & Diane (2012) after which she
was given a small role in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike (2012).
Keough appeared in several additional independent films in 2012 which included
Yellow and Kiss of the Damned, before making an appearance in the high-budget
action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) which was the fourth installment in the
Mad Max series. In 2016, Keough had her breakthrough role as a law
student-turned-escort in the first season of the anthology series The
Girlfriend Experience, executive-produced by Soderbergh and based on his 2009
film of the same name. The show received a lot of praise from critics for her
character, and received an Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance
by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
Keough's performance of a depressed young girl in American Honey (2017)
garnered accolades, and earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Keough was the main character in the apocalyptic horror flick It Comes at Night
(2017). Keough then reunited Soderbergh for a role in Logan Lucky, a heist
movie. In the year 2018, she starred in a number of horror and thriller movies,
including Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built The House That Jack Built,
the Neo-Noir Under the Silver Lake and Hold the Dark. In 2019, Keough starred
as the leading character in the psychological horror film The Lodge, followed
by another leading role in comedy-drama Zola (2020). Keough portrays the role
of Sandy Harrison in Netflix's 2020 release of The Devil All the Time.
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