Riley Keough

Danielle Riley Keough is an American actress. She was born in Santa Monica (California) to the famous musicians Lisa Marie Presley & Danny Keough she is the grandchild of actress Priscilla Presley as well as the singer Elvis Presley. Keough was raised by her father in Hawaii, Los Angeles and was able to spend time with her mother in California. She started modeling at 15. The appearances she made at Dolce & Gabbana fashion shows and Christian Dior's cover-shoots were some of her highlights. Keough made her debut in feature films at age 20, appearing in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), as Marie Currie. She subsequently starred in the thriller independent film The Good Doctor (2011) followed by the horror film Jack & Diane (2012), before being part of a minor character in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike (2012). In 2012, Keough appeared in Yellow and Kiss of the Damned. Then, she appeared in the action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This was the fourth installment of the Mad Max series. In 2016, Keough had her breakthrough role as a law student-turned-escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, executive-produced by Soderbergh and based on his 2009 film of the same name. She received critical praise for her performance, and earned an Golden Globe Award nomination for the best performance by an actress in a limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. Keough's performance as a lost young girl in American Honey (2017) garnered the same praise and also an Independent Spirit Award nomination. In the same year, Keough starred the apocalyptic horror film It Comes at Night (2017) and then reunited with Soderbergh to be a part of his heist film, Logan Lucky. In the year 2018, she appeared in several horror and thriller films, including Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built The House That Jack Built, the Neo-Noir Under the Silver Lake and Hold the Dark. Keough was the lead character in the 2019 psychological horror film The Lodge. She was next seen in Zola (2020) as which is a comedy-drama. Keough plays the character Sandy Harrison in Netflix's 2020 release of The Devil All the Time.




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