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Misty Upham is a Actor American born on 6 july 1982 at Kalispell (USA)
Misty Anne Upham (July 6, 1982 – October 5, 2014) was a Native American actress best known for her role in the 2008 film Frozen River, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. She appeared with Benicio del Toro in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013).
Elle obtient son premier rôle important en 2009 avec Frozen River de Courtney Hunt pour lequel elle est nommée aux Independent Spirit Awards et aux Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards dans la catégorie « Meilleure actrice de second rôle ». Grâce à ce rôle, elle incarne à partir de 2012 fréquemment des personnages d'origine amérindienne : elle tourne dans les films d'Arnaud Desplechin, de Quentin Tarantino, et de John Wells.
Le 6 octobre 2014, Misty Upham est portée disparue après que ses parents ont signalé son absence à la police : l'actrice aurait été vue pour la dernière fois la veille quittant l'appartement de sa sœur, dans l'État de Washington. Son père écrit le 12 octobre sur la page Facebook de l'actrice qu'elle souffre de trouble bipolaire, mais ne pense pas qu'elle pourrait tenter de se suicider, étant suivie médicalement et très entourée par sa famille. Le 16 octobre, un corps est retrouvé près de la White River (Washington) par la police, qui pense qu'il pourrait s'agir du corps de Misty Upham. Le lendemain, 17 octobre, le porte-parole de la famille de l'actrice confirme son décès.
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Birth name Misty Anne Upham
Nationality USA
Birth 6 july 1982 at Kalispell (USA)
Death 5 october 2014 (at 32 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 6 july 1982 at Kalispell (USA)
Death 5 october 2014 (at 32 years)
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Misty Upham est originaire du peuple amérindien Pieds-Noirs dans le Montana mais a grandi à Seattle où elle débute dans une compagnie théâtrale amateur amérindienne. Après avoir un temps pensé à entrer dans les ordres, elle décide de se faire une carrière d'actrice.Elle obtient son premier rôle important en 2009 avec Frozen River de Courtney Hunt pour lequel elle est nommée aux Independent Spirit Awards et aux Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards dans la catégorie « Meilleure actrice de second rôle ». Grâce à ce rôle, elle incarne à partir de 2012 fréquemment des personnages d'origine amérindienne : elle tourne dans les films d'Arnaud Desplechin, de Quentin Tarantino, et de John Wells.
Le 6 octobre 2014, Misty Upham est portée disparue après que ses parents ont signalé son absence à la police : l'actrice aurait été vue pour la dernière fois la veille quittant l'appartement de sa sœur, dans l'État de Washington. Son père écrit le 12 octobre sur la page Facebook de l'actrice qu'elle souffre de trouble bipolaire, mais ne pense pas qu'elle pourrait tenter de se suicider, étant suivie médicalement et très entourée par sa famille. Le 16 octobre, un corps est retrouvé près de la White River (Washington) par la police, qui pense qu'il pourrait s'agir du corps de Misty Upham. Le lendemain, 17 octobre, le porte-parole de la famille de l'actrice confirme son décès.
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Within (2016)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Vartan, Erin Moriarty, Nadine Velazquez, Blake Jenner, Ronnie Gene Blevins, JoBeth Williams
Roles Tina Walsh
Rating51%
Un veuf, sa fille et sa nouvelle épouse s'installent dans une nouvelle demeure dans une banlieue. Rapidement, leur vie est perturbée par d'étranges phénomènes qui hantent la maison qui semble être vivante...
Cake (2014)
, 1h38Directed by Daniel Barnz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Jennifer Aniston, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Chris Messina, William H. Macy, Lucy Punch
Roles Liz
Rating63%
The story centers around chronic pain sufferer Claire (Aniston) as she struggles to come to terms, not only with the aftermath of the car accident that killed her son & left her partially disabled, but also with the suicide of fellow cp sufferer Nina (Kendrick). The film documents how her pain & grief affect her behavior, her relationships with other people, and her ability to function from just after Nina's death until she reaches a breakthrough point in her own path.
August: Osage County (2013)
, 2h10Directed by John Wells
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard, Chris Cooper
Roles Johnna Monevata
Rating71%
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young native American woman Johnna (Misty Upham) as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is suffering from oral cancer and addiction to narcotics. Shortly after this, he disappears from the house, and Violet calls her sister and daughters for support. Her sister Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale) arrives with husband Charles Aiken (Chris Cooper). Violet's middle daughter Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) is single and the only one living locally; Barbara (Julia Roberts), her oldest, who has inherited her mother's mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) and 14-year-old daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Barbara and Bill are separated, but they put up a united front for Violet.
Jimmy P. (2013)
, 1h56Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Psychologie
Actors Benicio del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Elya Baskin, Gina McKee, Joseph Cross, Larry Pine
Roles Jane
Rating60%
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Jimmy Picard, un vétéran nord-amérindien de la tribu des Pieds-Noirs, est admis au Winter Veteran Hospital de Topeka au Kansas fondé par le psychiatre Karl Menninger. Souffrant de maux de tête aigus, d'absences et de crises d'angoisse incontrôlables qu'aucun médecin ne réussit à relier à une cause physiologique liée à son accident survenu en France, il est pris en charge par Georges Devereux, un ethnologue français originaire d'Europe centrale, spécialiste des cultures amérindiennes.
Django Unchained (2012)
, 2h45Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins
Roles Minnie (uncredited)
Rating81%
In Texas 1858, the Speck brothers, Ace and Dicky, drive black slaves on foot. Among the shackled slaves is Django, sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda von Shaft. The Speck brothers are stopped by Dr. King Schultz, a German ex-dentist and bounty hunter from Düsseldorf, Prussia. Schultz asks to buy one of the slaves; when he questions Django about his knowledge of the Brittle brothers, for whom Schultz is carrying a warrant, Ace becomes irritated and aims his shotgun at Schultz. Schultz quickly kills Ace and leaves Dicky at the mercy of the newly freed slaves, who shoot Dicky in the head.
The Dry Land (2010)
, 1h32Directed by Ryan Piers Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors America Ferrera, Melissa Leo, Jason Ritter, Ethan Suplee, Wilmer Valderrama, Evan Jones
Roles Gloria
Rating56%
James (Ryan O'Nan) returns from Iraq to face a new battle returning to his small-town life in Texas. His wife (America Ferrera), his mother (Melissa Leo), and his friend (Jason Ritter) provide support, but they can't fully understand the pain and suffering he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lonely, James reconnects with an army buddy, Raymond (Wilmer Valderrama), who provides him with compassion and friendship during his battle to process his experiences in Iraq. But their reunion also exposes the different ways that war affects people, at least on the surface. This moving story of redemption and reconstruction extends beyond a post-traumatic-stress-disorder narrative. O'Nan's performance is moving as he explores the depths of his internal struggle; Ferrera fearlessly tackles her role of a young wife in turmoil. The Dry Land is about one man's fight within his own terrain, his country, his home, and his mental health. He fights to rebuild what he lost.
Frozen River (2008)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior
Roles Lila Littlewolf
Rating70%
The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a discount store clerk struggling to raise two sons with her husband, a compulsive gambler who has disappeared with the funds she had earmarked to finance the purchase of a double-wide mobile home. While searching for him, she encounters Lila Littlewolf (Misty Upham), a Mohawk bingo-parlor employee who is driving his car, which she claims she found abandoned with the keys in the ignition at the local bus station. The two women, who have both fallen on hard economic times, form a desperate and uneasy alliance and begin trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States across the frozen St. Lawrence River for $1,200 each.
Expiration Date (2006)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jill Bennett, Richard Sanders, Misty Upham, David Keith, Dee Wallace, Cynthia Geary
Rating62%
The story is told by a Native American elderly man to a Native American boy who wants to give up dancing and leave the reservation by bus. The story he tells is about a Native American man named Charlie Silvercloud III who thinks that he will be hit by a milk truck on his 25th birthday, like his father and grandfather before him due to a curse. His birthday is two weeks away. Charlie has a checklist of things he wants to do before his two weeks are up, but because he does not have long to live and has no way to do anything extreme, his list is somewhat more practical than most "bucket" lists. His checklist includes canceling his cellphone contract, watering the plants, and returning library books. His mother tries to prevent the curse from killing him by mapping the milk truck route and is trying to stop Charlie from going outside during certain times just in case he might be killed earlier than expected. While looking for a casket to buy for his assumed death, he meets Bessie Smith who is looking for casket for her mother. Bessie owns a dog named Roadkill because he is able to play dead so convincingly that crowds gather when he plays dead. Bessie and Charlie start seeing each other, but Charlie cannot decide if he should continue the relationship because of his impending death. Things become more complicated when Charlie finds out that Bessie is being stalked by a man who drives a milk truck for the local dairy.
Dreamkeeper (2003)
, 2h54Directed by Steve Barron
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Eddie Spears, August Schellenberg, George Aguilar, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, Nathaniel Arcand, Gil Birmingham
Roles Chief's daughter
Rating74%
The film opens with Eagle Boy, a young man who is on a vision quest. It then cuts to the present, where a 17-year-old Lakota named Shane Chasing Horse is living on the Pine Ridge reservation. He is in trouble because he owes some money to a local gang—money he used to buy a beautiful ring for Mae Little Wounded, a girl he likes. Meanwhile, his mother asks him to drive his grandfather, Pete Chasing Horse, a storyteller, down to the powwow. Shane is reluctant. However, when the gang comes after him, Shane changes his mind and heads out to the powwow with his grandfather, who agrees to give him his truck once they reach the powwow. Grandfather tells Shane the story of a young Lakota man who tries to win the hand of Bluebird Woman. He also tells the story of how a thunder spirit falls in love with a Mohawk woman and brings her up into the ethereal world of Sky Woman, and of how she raised their son back in her village until he was struck by one of the villagers and brought back to live with his father.
Skins (2002)
, 1h27Directed by Chris Eyre
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Misty Upham, Michelle Thrush, Gil Birmingham
Roles Mrs. Blue Cloud
Rating69%
Rudy and Mogie Yellow Lodge are Lakota Sioux brothers on the Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mogie, unemployed and with a teenage son. Rudy, a police officer, struggles to care for his brother, nephew and the rest of the town through the hands of law. Mogie resists Rudy's attempts, preferring to drink and joke about the depressed state of their people and town. As a child, Rudy had been bitten by a spider, and Mogie told him it was Iktomi, the trickster spider; this spider re-appears to Rudy early in the film and Rudy's attempts to help begin to wander outside the lines of the law.
Skinwalkers (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Chris Eyre
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Michael Greyeyes, Alexandrea Kawisenhawe Rice, Misty Upham, Jon Proudstar
Roles Nina
Rating71%
Joe Leaphorn, a seasoned cop accustomed to the ways of Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, has returned to the Navajo reservation. Recovering from cancer, his wife, Emma, feels rejuvenated by her home's landscape and people. Leaphorn is less sure about their return. Well schooled in urban policing, he is soon confronted with a particular Navajo case: a mysterious killer who has a special antipathy for medicine men. He works with a partner Jim Chee, an FBI Academy grad who is training to be a traditional healer.