Misty Upham

Misty Upham

Birth : 1982-07-06, Kalispell, Montana

Death : 2014-10-05

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 also appeared in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and August: Osage County. Description above from the Wikipedia article Misty Upham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Misty Upham

Movies

Within
Tina Walsh
A widower, his daughter, and his new wife move into a peaceful neighborhood. At first it appears to be a perfect neighborhood but the family quickly realize that something is not right about their new home.
Cake
Liz
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
August: Osage County
Johnna Monevata
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Jimmy P.
Jane
The story of Picard, a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter. He travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux, thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.
Django Unchained
Minnie (uncredited)
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The Dry Land
Gloria
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Burn the Wagons
A Tribal Court Clerk trudges through another work-day.
Frozen River
Lila Littlewolf
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
Edge of America
Shirleen
From acclaimed director, Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time" comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams (James McDaniel) has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.
Skinwalkers
Nina
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.