Lindsay Mills was born on February 17,1985 and is an American acrobat and blogger.
17 Facts About Lindsay Mills
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Lindsay Mills came to international attention as the partner of former NSA analyst Edward Snowden in 2013 at the time of the global surveillance disclosures.
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Lindsay Mills graduated from Laurel High School, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and became a dancer and acrobat.
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Lindsay Mills kept a blog in which she posted pictures of herself posing and performing.
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On June 6,2013, agents from the National Security Agency searched Lindsay Mills's home seeking Snowden.
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On June 10,2013, Lindsay Mills wrote on her website, "I'll be refraining from blog posts for awhile" then deleted all posts within a day.
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Lindsay Mills was shocked to learn what had happened to Snowden, writing on her personal blog, "I feel alone, lost, overwhelmed, and desperate for a reprieve".
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Lindsay Mills became the focus of a media sensation after the global surveillance disclosures when she was identified as Snowden's girlfriend.
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Lindsay Mills's father shared that she was trying to make sense of what had happened and plan for her future.
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Later, the Citizenfour documentary included a scene which showed Snowden and Lindsay Mills reunited in Moscow.
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The information that Lindsay Mills and Snowden were together and happy was surprising because until the documentary, the media had reported that Snowden's life in Russia was a miserable punishment.
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In March 2015, Lindsay Mills revived her blog and made two posts which a writer for Jezebel described as "mysterious".
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In 2020, it was announced that Lindsay Mills was pregnant and that she and Snowden intended to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing their US citizenship.
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Lindsay Mills has a history of being highly active in new media publishing, including social media, blogging, and video sharing.
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Lindsay Mills's father described her as artistic, free and open, and the opposite of Edward Snowden.
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The character of Lindsay Mills has a prominent place in Snowden, a 2016 dramatization of Snowden's global surveillance disclosure.
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Director Oliver Stone said that the relationship between Lindsay Mills and Snowden was an important part of his movie.