Q’Orianka Kilcher Biography
Q’Orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (born February 11, 1990) is an American singer and actress. She is best known for her role as Pocahontas in the 2005 film The New World. It is also noted she shares a resemblence to Keisha Castle-Hughes, who starred in the 2003 movie The Whale Rider, both girls were born in 1990.
Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Germany; her first language was Spanish, although she also speaks English, a little German and limited Algonquian (which she learned for her part in The New World). Her father is a Peruvian artist of Quechua/Huachipaeri Native American descent. Her mother, Saskia Kilcher, a human-rights activist of Swiss descent, was born in Alaska and raised in Switzerland.