Lily Gladstone

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1. 

   Big break

   Gladstone's career breakthrough came as Jamie, a rancher, in Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, a role that won her the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress.

2. A change of course

   Gladstone wanted to become an actress after watching Return of the Jedi at age five, when she wished to portray an Ewok.

3. Early training

   Gladstone earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting/Directing from the University of Montana in 2008. During her time at UM, she acted in productions including Riders to the Sea, Richard III, Miss Julie and Coyote on a Fence.

4. Behind the camera

   After graduating, Gladstone led workshops and acting classes in her Native community. Sponsored by the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, she taught an image theater method for violence prevention that she named a "sculpture garden."

5. A change of course

   In 2017, Gladstone was the host of a series for Crash Course, an educational YouTube channel, and the subject was film production.

6. Beyond film

   In 2017 Gladstone acted with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company, and in 2020 she took the lead in Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta at the Yale Repertory Theatre.