Q'Orianka Kilcher

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Qoorianka Kilcher (born February 11, 1990) is an American-Peruvian actress, singer, and activist.

In the 2005 film The New World, she played Pocahontas, and in Princess Kaiulani (2009), she appeared as Pocahontas.

Early life

Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. In Quechua, her name Q'orianka means "Golden Eagle." Her father is from Quechua-Huachipaeri, Peru, while her mother, Saskia Kilcher, is an American civil rights campaigner of Swiss-German origins. When Kilcher was two, she and her mother moved to Kapa, Hawaii, USA, where her brother Kainoa was born.

For a large portion of her life, her father, who is estranged, was absent. Kilcher, who grew up in Hawaii, was inspired by the local culture and began hula dancing at the age of five. She also worked in Tahitian dance and West African, as well as ballet, hip hop, and modern dance. Kilcher received the Young Choreographer Award at age seven in 1997.

In 1996 and 1997, she was chosen to compete in the international Tahitian Dance Competition in San Jose, California. She appeared in over fifty professional dance performances around the island. She was chosen to be the soprano soloist at Schubert's Mass in G and Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti, as a member of the Waikiki Singers. Kilcher was the first child to study classical voice at the University of Hawaii with Laurance Paxton at the age of six years. Bill Ogilvie, a student at the Diamond Head Theatre, studied drama with her. Many of Hawaii's top artists, such as Willie K (Kahaiali) among others, booked her as a featured singer and opening act to several of Hawaii's best singers and opening acts.

In 1999, her mother moved the family to California. On the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Kilcher began to sing and dance for tourist donations and busking.

Personal life

Kainoa and Xihu Kilcher, both of whom act as actors and stunt performers, are brothers in Q'orianka. Jewel, the singer, was her first cousin to be disinherited.

Saskia Kilcher is the granddaughter of Ray "Pirate" Genet, a Swiss-born mountaineer who later immigrated to the United States, and Wurtilla Dora "Wurzy" Kilcher, who was born in Alaska to Swiss immigrant parents. Yule F. Kilcher, Q'orianka's great-grandfather, was elected as a member of the Alaska Senate and served as a delegate to the Alaskan constitutional convention.

Kilcher suffered a serious neck and shoulder injury while filming of Dora and the Lost City of Gold in 2018. After being treated for her injuries by third-party physicians, she received disability insurance benefits from the insurance company. Kilcher was charged with unlawful workers' compensation fraud in May 2022 after an inquiry revealed that she had shot scenes for the television show Yellowstone before receiving disability compensation. At her arraignment in May, she pleaded not guilty. Variety announced that she would appear in court on August 7, 2022.

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Career

In Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Kilcher was cast as Choire Who. She was 12 when she was offered a full scholarship to the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, where she studied vocal performance, music theory, and songwriting.

She has worked at the National Wushu Training Center and Impact Stunts, studying martial arts and stunts. She is also a black belt in Wushu kung fu and a stunt performer.

In the Academy Award-nominated motion picture The New World (2005), directed by Terrence Malick, Q'orianka played Pocahontas at age 15. Her appearance earned her the National Board of Review's best breakthrough performance in 2006, the 2006 Alma Award for best Latin American actress in a film, and a number of other award nominations. In December 2005, the film was released. The film was a critical success, receiving many praise and award nominations, but it was limited to 811 theaters around the world. It resulted in a relatively low box office income.

Kilcher began shooting The Power of Few, an independent film made in the summer of 2006, which she directed through her own production company, Entertainment On-Quest. Princess Kaiulani, the 2009 film festival, starred her in the title role. In May 2010, the film, about the overthrowrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, received critical feedback. Kilcher received praise for her performance, with Roger Ebert saying that "she invokes a great deal of knowledge and admiration in her role and appears to have created Kaiulani from the inside out."

Kilcher appeared in "The People Speak," a documentary feature film that focuses on historian Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the United States," in 2009.

She appeared Pinti in the family drama Shouting Secrets a year later. Kilcher was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 36th American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, and the film received Best Film at the 36th American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. In the television series Sons of Anarchy, she also portrayed Kerrianne Larkin, the daughter of Chibs Telford and Fiona Larkin.

In 2011, Kilcher appeared in Neverland, a version of the Peter Pan tale that aired on the Syfy Channel.

Kilcher appeared in Firelight alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. in 2012 and played Caroline Magabo, a young Latina prisoner who gets a new lease on life by becoming a volunteer firefighter alongside other female juvenile delinquents. Rayen appeared in Running Deer, an award-winning short film produced and directed by Brent Ryan Green of Toy Gun Films, in 2013.

In the 2017 film Te Ata, Kilcher appeared as the representative of Chickasaw Nation and actress Te Ata.

Kilcher appeared in TNT's The Alienist as Mary Palmer in 2018. Kilcher was the Inca princess in the 2019 adventure film Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Kilcher appeared in Channing Tatum's debut, Dog, as Niki, Tatum's estranged wife. Kilcher will produce and appear in the forthcoming film Yesteryear starring Scott Haze, Wes Studi, and Nick Cassavetes.

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