Who is Mollie in Killers of the Flower Moon?

Mollie Burkhart is a character in the book and the 2023 movie Killers of the Flower Moon, which tells the true story of the Osage murders in the 1920s.

Mollie is an Osage woman who married Ernest Burkhart, a white man who was part of a conspiracy to kill her and her family for their oil wealth.

Mollie lost her mother, her sister, and other relatives to the murders, but survived and sought justice for them. She is portrayed by Lily Gladstone in the movie, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Eric Roth. The movie is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann, which chronicles the harrowing murders of Osage Native Americans in Oklahoma due to their murderers’ greed for oil.

The movie is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.