Misty Upham

Acting

Misty Upham

Born 1982-07-06 · Kalispell, Montana, USA

​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.

Acting credits

Django Unchained poster
8.2

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Django Unchained

2012

Cake poster
6.3

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.

Cake

2014

August: Osage County poster
6.9

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters 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 mother who raised them.

August: Osage County

2013

Within poster
5.4

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.

Within

2016

Frozen River poster
6.6

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

Frozen River

2008

Skinwalkers poster
6.8

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.

Skinwalkers

2002

Jimmy P. poster
6.1

At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.

Jimmy P.

2013

The Dry Land poster
4.5

A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.

The Dry Land

2010

Edge of America poster
6.4

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 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.

Edge of America

2003

Burn the Wagons poster
NR

A Tribal Court Clerk trudges through another work-day.

Burn the Wagons

2009