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Riley Keough

Danielle Riley Keough (/ˈk/ KEE-oh; born May 29, 1989) is an American actress. Born into the Presley family, she is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She initially started her career as a model from 2004 to 2008 before transitioning to acting making her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie.

Keough's early roles included in the independent thriller The Good Doctor (2011), the comedy-drama film Magic Mike (2012), and the action epic Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Her performance as a wayward young woman in the Andrea Arnold drama film American Honey (2016) earned her a Independent Spirit Award nomination. She has since taken roles in the horror films It Comes at Night (2017), and The House That Jack Built (2018), the black comedy thriller Under the Silver Lake (2017), the heist film Logan Lucky (2017), the dark comedy-crime drama Zola (2020), and the absurdist fantasy Sasquatch Sunset (2024), the later of which she served as an executive producer.

On television, she portrayed an escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience (2016), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination. She has starred as a military wife in thriller series The Terminal List (2022) and a singer songwriter in the drama miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) both for Amazon Prime Video. The latter earned her nominations for another Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Keough is a co-founder of the production company Felix Culpa. She has co-directed the drama War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra d'Or. She became the sole owner of Elvis Presley's estate Graceland, following her mother Lisa Marie Presley's death in 2023.

Keough was born on May 29, 1989, at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. She is the eldest child of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (1968–2023) and musician Danny Keough; Keough is also the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley and actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley. Keough's father met her mother at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre and later played bass in Presley's band. She had a brother, Benjamin Storm Keough (1992–2020), and has two half-sisters from her mother's fourth marriage, to Michael Lockwood. Her maternal grandmother, Priscilla, is of part Norwegian descent. Keough's paternal grandmother, Janet Hollander, co-founded the Delphian School and served as its dean from 1995 to 2011.

When Keough was five years old, her parents divorced, and her mother was briefly married to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996. Of her upbringing, Keough said that she "grew up very privileged with my mother, but my dad didn't live like that. And I think experiencing both sides has been helpful. My father had mattresses on the floor of his apartments. He lived in cabins and trailer parks. He just didn't have much money... Actually, my memories of growing up with him were so colourful and eccentric and fun. It was a good vibe, you know? When I was like eight I told him, 'I want to grow up and be poor like you!' He was eating a bowl of cereal. I didn't realize how wildly offensive that was!"

Keough was raised primarily by her father in Hawaii and Los Angeles, though she at times lived at her mother's Los Angeles home, as well as at the Graceland Estate in Memphis, Tennessee, which her mother inherited following her grandfather Elvis's death. She is now the sole guardian of the estate and presides over the sub-trusts of her siblings, each inheriting one-third of their mother's estate including Graceland and the Elvis estate.

In 2002, when Keough was 13 years old, her mother married actor Nicolas Cage, though this marriage was also short-lived, lasting 107 days before Cage filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in May 2004. For a time, Keough attended a public school in the San Fernando Valley, but was ultimately homeschooled due to her having to frequently travel between her parents' homes.

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