American actress Lily Gladstone was BOTD in 1986. Born in Galispell, Montana of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce and European heritage, she was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Gladstone, Montana. She showed an early interest in acting, and moved to Seattle in her teens where she became was in youth theatre. After studying acting at the University of Montana, she became an acting teacher in her Native community. She made her film debut in 2012, rising to wider attention in Kelly Reichardt‘s 2014 film Certain Women, playing a horse wrangler who falls in love with a fledgling lawyer (played by Kristen Stewart). She rose to wider public attention came in 2023 in Martin Scorsese’s historical biopic Killers of the Flower Moon, playing an Osage woman being poisoned by her white husband to gain access to her fortune. Premiering at the 2023 Cannes Festival, the role won her numerous industry awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actor’s Award, and she became the first American Indigenous actor to be nominated for an Oscar. Her other work includes the film Fancy Dance; the TV crime thriller Under the Bridge, which earned her an Emmy nomination; and the 2025 remake of gay-themed comedy The Wedding Banquet. Gladstone identifies variously as queer, pansexual, straight and demisexual, and uses both she and they pronouns. Her current relationship status is unknown.