Biography of qorianka kilcher

At fourteen years old, Q'orianka Kilcher emerged into the front ranks of young actresses with her portrayal of Pocahontas opposite Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in Terrence Malick's 'The New World', an epic about the encounter between English and North American societies in the early 1600s. Her performance won her the National Board of Reviews best breakthrough performance of 2006 and the 2006 Alma Award for best Latin American actress in a feature film, as well as numerous nominations and rave reviews.

Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany to a Peruvian indigenous father of Quechua-Huachipaeri background and an Alaskan-born mother of Swiss-German origin. She was raised in Kapa'a, Hawaii. Having started her performing arts career at six years old, she is not only an award-winning actress with critical acclaim, but an amazing singer, lyricist, and expert dancer. Kilcher is also a committed human rights and environmental activist, as well as a fearless, powerful, young force who uses her voice as tool to bring the need for universal dignity, compassion, environmental justice, and basic Human Rights to the attention of the international community.

Traveling frequently to speak at youth events, colleges, and universities, Kilcher has been invited as a featured keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at many international conferences and events for organizations such as Amnesty International, the I.F.G. (International Forum on Globalization), and Amazon Watch I.F.I.P. (International Funders for Indigenous Peoples). She was a panelist on the "Indigenous Peoples: Human Rights, Dignity and Development with Identity in collaboration with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" United Nations panel. She also lends her energy as spokeswoman, collaborator, and supporter to several international and national NGOs.

In her free time, Kilcher is an accomplished singer/song-writer, and recently launched her

Q'orianka Kilcher

American actress (born 1990)

Q'orianka Kilcher

Kilcher in 2004

Born

Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher


(1990-02-11) February 11, 1990 (age 35)

Schweigmatt, West Germany

NationalityAmerican
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present
RelativesJewel (first cousin once removed)
Yule F. Kilcher (great-grandfather)
Ray Genet (grandfather)

Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (; born February 11, 1990) is an American actress. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred in a recurring role on the Paramount Network show Yellowstone.

Early life

Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. Her name Q'orianka means "Golden Eagle" in Quechua. Her father is of Quechua–Huachipaeri background from Peru, while her mother, Saskia Kilcher, is an American human rights activist of Swiss German origin. When Kilcher was two, she and her mother moved to Kapaʻa, Hawaii where her brother Kainoa was born.

Her father, from whom she is estranged, was absent for much of her life. Growing up in Hawaii, Kilcher was inspired by the local culture and started hula dancing at the age of five. She also trained in Tahitian dance and West African, as well as ballet, hip hop and modern dance. In 1997, Kilcher won Ballet Hawaii's Young Choreographer Award at age seven.

She was selected to compete at the international Tahitian Dance Competition in San Jose, California, in 1996 and 1997. She performed in over fifty professional dance performances island-wide. As a member of the Waikiki Singers, she was chosen to be the soprano soloist, performing Schubert's Mass in G and Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti. At the age of six years, Kilcher was the first child to study classical voice at the University of Hawaii with Laurance Paxton. She also studied drama with Bill

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    Q'orianka Kilcher

    Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (; born February 11, 1990) is an American actress. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). Read more on Wikipedia

    Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Q'orianka Kilcher has received more than 4,283,749 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Q'orianka Kilcher is the 10,490th most popular actor (down from 10,255th in 2019), the 6,200th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,494th in 2019) and the 316th most popular German Actor.

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    Among actors, Q'orianka Kilcher ranks 10,490 out of 13,578. Before her are Alex Russell, Alexis Knapp, Peter Paige, Marie Osmond, Ashleigh Cummings, and Don DeFore. After her are Rafe Spall, Amanda Collin, Richard Hunt, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Woo Do-hwan, and Christopher Castile.

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  • Q’orianka Kilcher

    Q’orianka Kilcher, vollständiger Name Q’orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (* 11. Februar1990 in Schweigmatt, Deutschland), ist eine US-amerikanischeSchauspielerin.

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    Ihr Urgroßvater mütterlicherseits, der in Zuchwil aufgewachsene Bürger von Nunningen im SchweizerKanton SolothurnYule Kilcher, wanderte zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges nach Alaska aus und heiratete dort Ruth Weber aus Pratteln. In Alaska wurden Q’oriankas Großmutter, die sich später in Deutschland niederließ, und ihre Mutter geboren. Diese bereiste die Welt und lernte in Peru den zu den Quechua gehörenden Vater Q’oriankas kennen. In der Sprache ihres Vaters bedeutet Kilchers Vorname „Goldener Adler“.

    Q’orianka Kilcher wurde in Schweigmatt im südlichen Schwarzwald geboren, verbrachte ihre Kindheit auf Hawaii und lebte später mit Mutter und Bruder in Los Angeles. Ihr Vater kam alle vier bis fünf Jahre zu Besuch aus Peru. Sie ist eine Nichte zweiten Grades der Sängerin Jewel Kilcher.

    Kilcher selbst trat seit ihrem sechsten Lebensjahr als Straßensängerin auf. Nachdem ihre Familie 1999 nach Los Angeles gezogen war, erhielt sie ein Engagement als Chorsängerin in der Bühnenshow How the Grinch Stole Christmas und in der Verfilmung Der Grinch (2000, mit Jim Carrey).

    2002 trat sie in der CastingshowStar Search an, schied jedoch früh aus. Im selben Jahr hatte sie eine kleine Rolle in einer Episode der FernsehserieMadison Heights.

    International bekannt wurde Kilcher, als sie der FilmregisseurTerrence Malick neben Colin Farrell für die weibliche Hauptrolle der Pocahontas in seinem Historienfilm The New World (2005) auswählte. Der Film war finanziell in den USA ein mäßiger Erfolg, erntete aber eine Oscar-Nominierung für die beste Kamera. Kilcher erhielt sehr gute Kritiken und die Auszeichnung des National Board of Review als beste Nachwuchsschauspielerin. 2009 spielte sie in Marc Forbys Film Princess Ka'iulani die Hauptroll

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