YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT
FOR years, Riley Keough was best known as the granddaughter of Elvis Presley — and daughter of troubled Lisa Marie Presley and ex-hubby Danny Keough. But the 32-year-old has been carving out her own career as a model and actress since age 15. In the new film Zola, she plays a crafty stripper who convinces a gullible waitress to go on a wild road trip.
Here are ten things you don’t know about Riley.
1
Her first name is actually
Danielle, but she’s long gone by her middle name, Riley.
2
As a kid, she sometimes lived at her mother’s
Los Angeles home, as well as at Graceland in Memphis,
Tenn., but was primarily raised by her dad in Hawaii and L.A.
3
Through her father, she’s a distant cousin of poet Emma Lazarus, who wrote The New Colossus, the famed sonnet displayed on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal.
4
As a teenager, her first modeling gig was for the Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana.
5
She made her feature film debut at age
20, appearing in a supporting part as musician Marie Currie in the 2010 biopic The Runaways.
6
She beat out Lindsay Lohan for the minor role of Nora in director Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike.
7
She stands at five-foot-seven — making her four inches taller than her mother.
In February 2015, she married stuntman Ben SmithPetersen following a five-month engagement after meeting on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road.
8 9
She’s friends with Dakota Johnson, who was a bridesmaid at
her wedding.
10
She finds it “fun” to play manipulative characters.