Meet Riley Keough, Elvis Presley’s talented granddaughter: the Daisy Jones & The Six actress was in her late mum’s music video, is heir to the Graceland estate and hangs out with Dakota Johnson
- The Daisy Jones & The Six actress is the granddaughter of king of rock ‘n’ roll – Elvis Presley – and she was so touched by Austin Butler’s performance in Elvis that she cried throughout the film
- Keough once starred in her late mum Lisa Marie Presley and Justin Timberlake’s music videos; she and her teenage sisters have also been named the heirs to their grandfather’s Graceland estate
Riley Keough wasn’t a singer before Daisy Jones & The Six even though her family is basically musical royalty.
From making early appearances in music videos for her mother and Justin Timberlake to having a tribute tattoo on her collarbone to memorialise her late brother, here are some facts that you may not know about Elvis Presley’s actor and director granddaughter Riley Keough.
Riley Keough is Elvis Presley’s granddaughter
Although she never met her grandfather, Keough recently said in an interview with Variety that it was an “emotional experience” for her to watch Austin Butler play him in Elvis.
“I started crying five minutes in and didn’t stop,” she said. “There’s a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started around then for our family. I felt honoured they worked so hard to really get his essence, to feel his essence. Austin captured that so beautifully.”
She also said that though she trusted director Baz Luhrmann with the vision for the film, “You’re protective over your family.”
She plays a musician in Daisy Jones & the Six but hadn’t tried singing before accepting the role
