Riley Keough has a unique story when it comes to his rise to fame.

The “Daisy Jones and the Six” actress, 35, is the daughter of singer Danny Keough and the late Lisa Marie Presley, and although she was born after their deaths, she is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley.

In a new interview with Elle United KingdomKeough explained that after her parents found out about her ambitions to be an artist, they tried to dissuade her from doing so, although they were clearly unsuccessful.

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Riley Keough was warned by her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, about entering show business. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

“I felt like I was getting into something that could go horribly wrong,” she recalled, remembering Lisa Marie telling her, “If you’re going to do this, you have to be really good at what you do, or no one will do it.” If they take you seriously, you won’t get a job and it will be embarrassing.”

“I’m sure being Elvis’ granddaughter made it easier for me to get an agent, have meetings and all that stuff when I first started.”

—Riley Keough

He added: “‘You don’t want to be an embarrassing celebrity!’ “She instilled that deeply in me and my brother.”

Keough grew up with his younger brother Benjamin, who died in 2020 by suicide. She also has two little sisters: twins Harper and Finley, whom Lisa Marie welcomed with her fourth husband, guitarist Michael Lockwood, in 2008.

Lisa Marie Presley smiles with her four children, Riley and Benjamin Keough, Finley Aaron Love and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood. (Lisa Marie Presley Instagram)

Although Keough has clearly been able to avoid the trap of being “an embarrassing celebrity kid,” amassing an impressive list of credits to her name since her first acting gig in 2010. “The Fugitives” He admitted that his famous family offered him an advantage over the competition.

“I’m sure being Elvis’ granddaughter made it easier for me to get an agent and have meetings and all that stuff when I started,” she said. “I know there’s so much nepo-baby stuff going on right now (and) I certainly recognize that aspect of privilege coming from where I come from. I’m not an idiot! I’m aware of privilege in an acute way.”

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Riley is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley. (Getty Images)

But that advantage doesn’t mean she hasn’t put in the effort, too.

Keough began modeling at age 14, making her debut in a Dolce and Gabbana show at Milan Fashion Week in 2004. Last year, she said vanity fair“My whole life was pretty public, but I think it probably felt like it was the first time I was doing something alone, rather than something family-oriented.”

She continued modeling over the next few years, walking in fashion shows and appearing on the cover of magazines such as Vogue and France’s L’Officiel; Her first magazine cover was for People, an article in “Elvis’s first grandson” when he was one month old.

Riley Keough at Milan Fashion Week in 2004. (PAOLO COCCO/AFP via Getty Images)

From there, he shifted his focus to acting, kicking off that career by starring alongside Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in “The Runaways.”

She played a stripper in Channing Tatum 2012 film “Magic Mike,” and also worked on critically acclaimed independent projects such as 2016’s “The Girlfriend Experience.”

In addition to acting (she’s earned more than 40 credits in the last 14 years), she also owns a production company called Felix Culpa with her friend Gina Gammell.

She told Vogue that she was born a hard worker; When Vanity Fair asked her where she got her work ethic, she said, “Not from my parents. Not from anyone in my family. I came out of the womb like that.”

Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough seen at the Warner Bros. premiere of “Mad Max: Fury Road” on Thursday, May 7, 2015 in Los Angeles. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

She continued: “I think we are half nature, half nurture. Naturally, I was someone very punctual and hard-working who wanted to do things. My upbringing was very different from that. I had no schedules: sometimes we went to school, sometimes we didn’t. We do it. That was what I was used to, so I lived my adolescence and childhood as if that was what I wanted. I’m definitely an adventurous and spontaneous person, but I thrive on routine. My parents said that when I was little, I was trying a lot to organize things and make them happen.”

Last year, Keough starred in a limited series on Amazon called “Daisy Jones and the Six.” His work in musical drama about a fictional rock band was widely praised, and Reese Witherspoon, who served as executive producer on the project, succinctly explained Keough’s unique experience.

Riley Keough was praised for her performance in the limited series “Daisy Jones & The Six.” (Getty Images)

“Despite all the money and trappings that seem to facilitate an easier life, it is a very, very challenging life,” Witherspoon told Vanity Fair. “Being under constant scrutiny and still making it to the top and still performing at the highest level… I’m really amazed at how much she challenged herself. Because she didn’t have to.”

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While Keough’s work in the entertainment industry has been, for better or worse, affected by her family’s legacy, she shared with Elle that she believes it’s easier being Elvis’ granddaughter than it was for her mother to have been his daughter.

“I think in her case, which is not always the case, being the daughter of someone so famous and iconic made it very difficult for her to try to have a career, but also to be a person removed from that,” he explained of Lisa Marie, who died of a intestinal obstruction – a complication from an old bariatric surgery – last year.

Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only daughter. (Getty Images)

“Her whole identity was being Elvis’ daughter,” she said. “And she turned out to be someone who didn’t enjoy these things: the fame and the attention on her.”

With the death of Lisa Marie, Elvis’s only daughter, and his brother benjaminKeough has taken on the responsibility of maintaining the Presley family legacy, along with his grandmother, Priscilla Presley.

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She is the sole property manager of Graceland, Elvis’ former home in Memphis, Tennessee. He also worked to complete Lisa Marie’s memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which was published earlier this month.

Riley Keough worked to complete her mother’s memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown.” (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Elsewhere in the interview, Keough said of her mother: “The most heartbreaking thing for me, growing up, was watching this woman who, from what I could tell, deeply wanted love and friendship, really struggle to find it. I think that’s really true.” I think it’s common at that level of fame to be Elvis’s daughter that being other people’s daughter, not to say she didn’t have some great friendships and relationships in her life, was just always a struggle.

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