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Date of Birth

6 July 1982, Kalispell, Montana, USA

Birth Name

Misty Anne Upham

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Biography

Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen she was writing and directing short skits and performing on tours throughout the northwest. In the next four years she would be accepted to several Seattle theater companies, all while attending high school. Her first break came in 2001 when she landed the role of Mrs. Blue Cloud in Chris Eyre's sophmore project Skins (2002), where she portrayed a victim of domestic abuse on the Pine Ridge reservation. She is presently continuing her work in television and film.

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Trivia

Father is a music teacher.

Insisted on doing her own stunts for the fight scenes in Skins (2002).

Plays classical guitar and is studying classical voice.

Studied Latin and medieval and early renaissance art and history.

Favorite restaurant "in all the world" is the Lemon Grass (Thai) in Salt Lake City.

Is Pro-Life.

She was the subject of a documentary by Ali Talis of New York City, following her career and life as an actress/artist. [2005]

Gained forty pounds and had a significant amount of her hair cut for her role as Lila, a new mom/widow in Frozen River. Her trademark long and thick hair was previously waist-length.

Was asked to write an article for the Native Vue Magazine in 2006. After reading her work, the editor asked her to come on as a featured celebrity writer. She wrote only three articles before feeling the need to spend more time on her own screenplays.

Favorite Actors are James McAvoy, Jeremy Renner, Steve Zahn, Christian Bale, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Favorite Actresses are Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Tilda Swinton, Asia Argento and Emily Watson.

Favorite movies are Elizabeth (1998), Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001), La Riene Margot (1994), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), Orlando (1992) and Dahmer (2002).

Personal Quotes

I would love to do a film like Howard's End, which is one of my favorites. I would love to do a film like Sense & Sensibility, but until society changes, the only roles I'd get to play in movies like that would be either as a maid, or a prisoner, which totally sucks.

I don't like interviews. I hate them. I always feel so stupid. I just go blank, even with the simplest questions. I guess it's to do with the fact that I'm a perfectionist. I don't want to say anything that I'll regret in ten years time. And I'm also painfully shy in real life. When I'm in front of the camera, or talking to people as an actress, and not as myself, it's like I become another person. Somehow possessed with somebody who is worth talking to. Because at home people could care less about what I have to say.

I just do shit so I don't have to stop and think about shit.

Where Are They Now

(December 2007) Currently living in Los Angeles.