Riley Keough about her grandfather Elvis Presley
Riley Keough was born in the first marriage of Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough.
Riley Keough was born in the first marriage of Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, which lasted six years. She was born on May 29, 1989, in Santa Monica, California. She came into the public spotlight after the premiere of the film about her grandfather "Elvis" in Cannes. Everyone eagerly awaited her reaction. She also presented her film "War Pony" in Cannes.
At the screening of "Elvis" she cried right at the beginning of the film. “I could feel how much Baz and Austin put in the effort to show everything properly. It immediately made me emotional… I felt honored that they tried so hard to really get to his essence, to feel what he really was. Austin portrayed it so beautifully” - she said after the film.
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Interestingly, she recently stated that she does not listen to her grandfather's songs. “There were a lot of emotions around them, a lot of suffering, during my growing up, especially when I see my mother and grandmother. There were sad and tragic things, so I connect them with that. I could see from a young age that these songs make my mother sad and I felt it” - said the young actress in the podcast Marc Malkin.
She even sang in the series "Daisy Jones and the Six", but she is convinced that she doesn't have a voice like Elvis. “My voice is not like Elvis', but I recently realized that I have a good voice for country. I realized that the other day in the studio” - she said.
Riley Keough is an actress and is called the "scream queen" because she has acted in many horror movies. While filming "Mad Max: Fury Road", she fell in love with stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen. They got engaged in 2014, and in February of the following year, they were already married. When she was six, her parents divorced, and her mother was briefly married to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996. About her growing up, Keough stated that she "grew up under the very privileged position of her mother", but that her father did not live that way and that those two completely different experiences were of great help in her life.
“My father had mattresses on the floor. He lived in a trailer. He just didn't have much money. In fact, my memories of growing up with him were so colorful, eccentric, and fun.” - said Riley. She was primarily raised by her father in Hawaii and Los Angeles, as well as on a property in Memphis that her mother inherited after Elvis' death. When Riley was 13, her mother married actor Nicholas Cage, but the marriage was short-lived, lasting only two years. Riley attended public school for a while but eventually finished school at home because she had to travel frequently between her parents.
The life of the granddaughter of the famous Elvis was also marked by tragedy, the suicide of her brother Benjamin Keough 2020, who killed himself at the age of 27. After Benjamin's death, she started posting videos on Instagram, in order to raise people's awareness that someone's intentions to take their own lives are not always obvious.
