- Born
- Birth nameQ'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher
- Nickname
- Q
- Height5′ 3½″ (1.61 m)
- At fourteen years old, Q'orianka Kilcher emerged into the front ranks of young actresses with her portrayal of Pocahontas opposite Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in Terrence Malick's 'The New World', an epic about the encounter between English and North American societies in the early 1600s. Her performance won her the National Board of Reviews best breakthrough performance of 2006 and the 2006 Alma Award for best Latin American actress in a feature film, as well as numerous nominations and rave reviews.
Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany to a Peruvian indigenous father of Quechua-Huachipaeri background and an Alaskan-born mother of Swiss-German origin. She was raised in Kapa'a, Hawaii. Having started her performing arts career at six years old, she is not only an award-winning actress with critical acclaim, but an amazing singer, lyricist, and expert dancer. Kilcher is also a committed human rights and environmental activist, as well as a fearless, powerful, young force who uses her voice as tool to bring the need for universal dignity, compassion, environmental justice, and basic Human Rights to the attention of the international community.
Traveling frequently to speak at youth events, colleges, and universities, Kilcher has been invited as a featured keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at many international conferences and events for organizations such as Amnesty International, the I.F.G. (International Forum on Globalization), and Amazon Watch I.F.I.P. (International Funders for Indigenous Peoples). She was a panelist on the "Indigenous Peoples: Human Rights, Dignity and Development with Identity in collaboration with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" United Nations panel. She also lends her energy as spokeswoman, collaborator, and supporter to several international and national NGOs.
In her free time, Kilcher is an accomplished singer/song-writer, and recently launched her own youth driven human rights and environmental organization on Q Initiative, heading campaigns to connect young Hollywood with youth-activist leaders and projects from around the world.
Through her production company, IQ-Films, Kilcher is also producing several cause-driven documentaries and youth-programming projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: G. Hepp and another IMDB user
- Parents
- RelativesXihuaru Kilcher(Sibling)Kainoa Kilcher(Sibling)Jewel(Cousin)
- Full smile
- Luscious lips
- Athletic figure
- Her father is a Quechua-Huachipaeri, an Indigenous South American from Madre de Dios, Peru. Her mother Saskia is a Swiss national who grew up in Alaska.
- Speaks fluent German, Spanish and English.
- Popular singer Jewel is her first cousin once removed. Jewel is first cousin of Saskia Genet-Oulicky, the mother of Q'orianka.
- Her grandfather, Ray "Pirate" Genet, was an Alaskan mountain-rescue and climbing legend who died in 1979 while making his descent from the summit of Mt. Everest.
- Q'orianka translates to "golden eagle" in Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire and an official language in Peru.
- He [Colin Farrell] told me, as an actor, you shouldn't take yourself too seriously.
- You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
- Who, or what has given any person the right or freedom to abuse natural resources and our environment?
- While we are living in a time which demands us to urgently pay attention to such things as Climate change and Global warming, we also live in a time where we all need to encourage each other to be part of a shift and climate change in human consciousness and a global warming of hearts.
- I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.
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