Riley Keough made her feature film debut at age 20, appearing in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways, portraying Marie Currie.
36 Facts About Riley Keough
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Riley Keough subsequently starred in the independent thriller The Good Doctor, before being cast in a minor role in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike.
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Riley Keough had her first big-budget release in the action feature Mad Max: Fury Road.
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In 2016, Keough had her breakthrough role as an escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Riley Keough went on to star in the horror film It Comes at Night, Soderbergh's heist film Logan Lucky, and had further horror film appearances in The House That Jack Built and The Lodge.
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Riley Keough was born on May 29,1989, at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
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Riley Keough is the eldest child of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley and actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley.
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Riley Keough's father met her mother while performing as a bass guitarist in her mother's band.
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Riley Keough had a brother, Benjamin Storm Keough, and has two half-sisters, twins Harper and Finley, from her mother's fourth marriage to Michael Lockwood.
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When Riley Keough was five years old, her parents divorced, and her mother was briefly married to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996.
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In 2002, when Riley Keough was 13 years old, her mother married actor Nicolas Cage, though this marriage was short-lived, ending two years later in divorce.
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Riley Keough subsequently appeared on the United States cover of Vogue in August 2004.
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Riley Keough subsequently appeared on the cover of the Japanese Elle magazine and Korean Vogue, both in 2005, as well as the covers of the French magazines Jalouse and L'Officiel, in 2005.
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In 2010, at the age of 20, Riley Keough made her film debut in The Runaways based on the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name.
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Riley Keough portrayed the role of Marie Currie, the sister to Cherie Currie, the band's lead singer, portrayed by Dakota Fanning.
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Riley Keough portrayed Diane Nixon, a young patient with a kidney infection who is kept ill to make her doctor gain the respect he craves.
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In September 2011, Riley Keough joined the Steven Soderbergh film Magic Mike, alongside Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer, about a group of male strippers.
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Riley Keough co-starred in the independent drama Yellow, alongside Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson and David Morse, followed by a supporting role opposite Milo Ventimiglia in the independent vampire film Kiss of the Damned, which premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.
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In October 2013, Riley Keough co-starred in the video for Justin Timberlake's "TKO", portraying a bitter girlfriend who knocks out Timberlake and ties him to the back of a pickup truck, dragging him through the desert and throwing him off a cliff.
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Riley Keough appeared in director So Yong Kim's short film Spark and Light commissioned by fashion brand Miu Miu in 2014.
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Riley Keough had a supporting role in Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment of the Mad Max series.
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In December 2015, Dixieland was released by IFC Films, in which Riley Keough starred as a woman living in a Mississippi trailer park who becomes embroiled in a crime.
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In January 2016, Riley Keough's following film, the lesbian drama Lovesong, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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The film, directed by So Yong Kim, features Riley Keough co-starring with Jena Malone as two best friends who fall in love with each other.
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Riley Keough had her breakthrough role portraying a law student-turned-escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, based on the film of the same name from director Steven Soderbergh.
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Riley Keough went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
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Also in 2016, Riley Keough appeared in Andrea Arnold's drama film American Honey, alongside Shia LaBeouf.
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Riley Keough received praise for her role in the film, and received a nomination at the Film Independent Spirit Awards for Best Supporting Female.
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Riley Keough subsequently starred as the daughter of a dysfunctional family in the drama We Don't Belong Here, co-starring with Catherine Keener and Anton Yelchin, which was filmed in 2014.
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Riley Keough appeared in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky, released in August 2017.
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In 2018, Riley Keough appeared in a number of films, including the independent drama-thriller Welcome the Stranger, followed by the Netflix-released thriller Hold the Dark, directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and the Barry Levinson-directed television film Paterno, a biographical film about Joe Paterno released through HBO in April 2018.
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In May 2018, Riley Keough debuted two films at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival: Lars von Trier's controversial psychological horror film The House That Jack Built, which was given a limited release in the United States by IFC Films, and David Robert Mitchell's neo-noir Under the Silver Lake, which was given a limited release in April 2019.
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In early 2019, Riley Keough was cast in the Netflix-produced psychological thriller The Devil All the Time, based on Donald Ray Pollock's 2011 novel of the same name.
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Riley Keough performed lead vocals on the album Aurora, the fictional album recorded by the band, which was released on March 1,2023.
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In 2022, Riley Keough co-directed and produced with Gina Gammell War Pony, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in May 2022.
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In February 2015, Riley Keough married Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen in Napa, California, having announced their engagement the previous year.