Riley Keough grew up a little bit extreme. After her parents, Lisa Marie Presley, and musician Danny Keough separated, her mother decided to marry Michael Jackson herself. In her early childhood, she divided her time between Graceland, Neverland and, on the other hand, the trailer parks where Riley stayed, a more modest life that was no less attractive to her. He released Mr Keough when he was eight years old, as he explained to The Guardian: “I want to grow up and be poor like you!“.
She never fulfilled that wish: she was modeling for Dolce & Gabbana at the age of fifteen, and five years later embarked on a solid acting career as the twin sister of The Runaways singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) in her biography of teen rock band. We briefly saw him in ‘Magic Mike’ in 2012, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with Steven Soderbergh, which gave him a breakthrough role in the television version of ‘The Girlfriend Experience’. Keough overflowing with delicacy and intelligence as a luxury escort, defined as an intelligent woman who is not obsessed with moral judgments or patriarchy, but who (almost) fully owns her destiny.
For several years she seemed focused on being the new favorite actress of Sitges festival subscribers. After going through ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, where she met her husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who was a stuntman for several years (2017-2019), the night connected with the eerie and/or disturbing ‘Come at Night’. , “Night of the Wolves”, “Jack’s House” (by Lars von Trier), “What Hide the Silver Lake” and revenge can be taken ‘The Lodge’ celebrating one of his best performances as the strange new mother of the main boys: a woman who was rescued years ago from her own father’s cult.
In 2020, the year he shined in ‘Zola’ as a mysterious stripper, Keough had to deal not only with the epidemic but also with the suicide of his brother Benjamin Storm Keough. Then time for silence, reorganization and learning (she has become a death matron to stop escaping this aspect of life), we have recently begun to see her bright new signs: a Camera d’Or in Cannes for her first film as a director, ‘War pony’; A promising trailer for the drama ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ starring Stevie Nicks as her stunt double. Now, his mother’s death perhaps will lead him to a certain retreat. From this, I hope, it will only come out wiser and stronger.