Was voted "Most likely to win an Oscar" in high school. In 2024, she received an Oscar nomination in the category "Best Actress in a Leading Role" for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
[on being the first Native American actress to be nominated for an Oscar] Why am I the first? Why did it have to take this long for me to be the first Indigenous North American? Most of the films that show up in these categories are shot on Indigenous land in North America, and it's taken this long.
