1. Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher is an American actress.
38 Facts About Q'orianka Kilcher
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Q'orianka Kilcher trained in Tahitian dance and West African, as well as ballet, hip hop and modern dance.
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In 1997, Q'orianka Kilcher won Ballet Hawaii's Young Choreographer Award at age seven.
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Q'orianka Kilcher was selected to compete at the international Tahitian Dance Competition in San Jose, California, in 1996 and 1997.
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Q'orianka Kilcher performed in over fifty professional dance performances island-wide.
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At the age of six years, Q'orianka Kilcher was the first child to study classical voice at the University of Hawaii with Laurance Paxton.
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Q'orianka Kilcher studied drama with Bill Ogilvie at the Diamond Head Theater.
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Q'orianka Kilcher started to sing and dance for tourist donations, busking on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.
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At the age of ten, Q'orianka Kilcher was cast as Choire Who in Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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Q'orianka Kilcher was 12 when she received a full scholarship to the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, where she studied vocal performance, music theory and songwriting.
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Q'orianka Kilcher studied martial arts and stunts: she is an accomplished black belt in Wushu kung fu and a stunt performer and has trained at the National Wushu Training Center and Impact Stunts.
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At age 15, Q'orianka Kilcher portrayed Pocahontas in the Academy Award-nominated motion picture The New World, directed by Terrence Malick.
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Q'orianka Kilcher's performance was critically acclaimed and won her the National Board of Review's best breakthrough performance of 2006, the 2006 Alma Award for best Latin American actress in a feature film, and numerous other award nominations.
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Q'orianka Kilcher played the title role in the 2009 feature film Princess Kaiulani.
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In 2009, Q'orianka Kilcher performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of common people in the US, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".
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The film won Best Film at the 36th American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, and Q'orianka Kilcher was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Q'orianka Kilcher portrayed Kerrianne Larkin, daughter of Chibs Telford and Fiona Larkin, in the television series Sons of Anarchy.
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In 2011, Q'orianka Kilcher played Tiger Lily in Neverland, a version of the Peter Pan story that aired on the Syfy Channel.
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In 2012, Q'orianka Kilcher starred in Firelight alongside Cuba Gooding Jr.
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Q'orianka Kilcher starred as the Chickasaw Nation representative and actress Te Ata in the 2017 film Te Ata.
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In 2018, Q'orianka Kilcher appeared in TNT's The Alienist as Mary Palmer.
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Q'orianka Kilcher appeared in the 2019 adventure film Dora and the Lost City of Gold as the Inca princess.
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In 2020, Q'orianka Kilcher joined Yellowstone to play Angela Blue Thunder across the last three seasons of the show.
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In 2022, Q'orianka Kilcher appeared in Channing Tatum's directorial debut, Dog, as Niki, the estranged wife of Tatum's character.
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Q'orianka Kilcher will produce and star in the upcoming film Yesteryear alongside Scott Haze, Wes Studi and Nick Cassavetes.
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Q'orianka Kilcher has made a commitment to human rights and environmental activism.
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Q'orianka Kilcher speaks on behalf of causes to achieve what she regards as environmental justice and basic human rights.
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Q'orianka Kilcher has read Howard Zinn's The People Speak in staged readings.
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Q'orianka Kilcher joined the cast for the first People Speak film series.
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In 2010, Q'orianka Kilcher launched her own youth-driven human rights and environmental organization "On-q Initiative", to connect young Hollywood with youth activist leaders and projects from around the world in support of environmental sustainability, corporate accountability, and basic human rights.
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In 2007, Q'orianka Kilcher won the Brower Youth Award, an environmental award, for her work in persuading Occidental Petroleum to withdraw from the Peruvian Amazon valley.
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On September 4,2015, Q'orianka Kilcher was part of a group that sang "Love Song to the Earth".
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Q'orianka Kilcher has two brothers, Kainoa and Xihuaru Q'orianka Kilcher, both of whom work as actors and stunt performers.
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Q'orianka Kilcher's mother Saskia Kilcher is the daughter of Ray "Pirate" Genet, a Swiss mountaineer who later immigrated to the United States, and Wurtilla Dora "Wurzy" Kilcher, who was born in Alaska to Swiss immigrant parents.
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In 2018, Q'orianka Kilcher severely injured her neck and shoulder during the filming of Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
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Q'orianka Kilcher received disability benefits from the insurance company after being treated for her injuries by third-party doctors.
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In May 2022, Q'orianka Kilcher was charged with alleged workers' compensation fraud after an investigation found that she had filmed scenes for the television series Yellowstone before receiving $96,838 in disability benefits.
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Q'orianka Kilcher pled not guilty at her arraignment in May Variety reported that she was due to appear in court on August 7,2022.