Lisa Marie Presley is remembered by fans as they bring flowers to Graceland to honor Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s only child. Riley Keough has a unique story when it comes to her 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 his death, she's the granddaughter of Elvis Presley.
In a new interview with Elle UK , Keough explained that after her parents learned of her ambitions to be a performer, they tried to talk her out of it — although they clearly weren't successful. RILEY KEOUGH HELPING LISA MARIE PRESLEY'S LEGACY BE ‘TRULY UNDERSTOOD’ 1 YEAR AFTER HER DEATH Riley Keough was warned about getting into show business by her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. ( Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) "I felt like I was getting into something that could go terribly wrong," she recalled, remembering Lisa Marie telling her, "If you’re going to do this, you have to be so good at what you do, or else nobody’s going to take you seriously, you’re not going to get any jobs and it’s going to be embarrassing.
" "I’m sure being Elvis’s granddaughter has made it easier for me to get an agent, to have meetings and all this stuff, when I started out." She added, "'You don’t want to be an embarrassing celebrity kid!' She ingrained that into me and my brother so deeply." Keough grew up with younger brother Benjamin, who passed away in 2020 from su.