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Yellowstone actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in disability benefits while working on the TV show, authorities said Monday.<br>Kilcher, 32, was charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, according to a statement from the California Department of Insurance.<br>In 2020, Kilcher played Angela Blue Thunder for four episodes of the Paramount Network Western, which stars Kevin Costner.<br>She also portrayed Pocahontas in the 2005 movie The New World and was in the 2019 film Dora and the Lost City of Gold.<br>While working on Dora in October 2018, Kilcher allegedly injured her neck and right shoulder, the insurance department said. <br> Yellowstone actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in disability benefits while working on the TV show, California Department of Labor said <br> Kilcher, 32, (pictured Sunday) was charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, according to a statement from the California Department of Insurance<br>A year later, Kilcher told a doctor handling the insurance claim that she had been offered work but could not take it because of severe neck pain from her injury, according to the insurance department’s statement.<br>From 2019 through 2021, Kilcher received $96,838 in temporary disability benefits.<br>An investigation later discovered that Kilcher had worked on Yellowstone for several months in 2019 during the period she claimed to be disabled, the department said.<br> While working on Dora and the Lost City of Gold in October 2018 (pictured), Kilcher allegedly injured her neck and right shoulder, the insurance department said<br> Kilcher jumped to stardom at the age of 15 in 2005 when she starred as Pocahontas in the award-nominated film The New World<br> She landed a title role in the 2009 feature Princess Kaiulani, where she portrayed the princess during the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.<br> ‘According to records, she returned to the doctor and started receiving disability benefits five days after last working on the show,’ the statement said.<br>Kilcher surrendered and was arraigned on the charges in May, the statement said.<br>Her attorney, Michael Becker, said that Kilcher was a passenger in a production vehicle when she was hurt.<br>’Third-party doctors verified her injury and entitlement to benefits.
Ms. Kilcher was at all times candid with her doctors and treatment providers … and she never intentionally accepted benefits that she did not believe she was entitled to,’ Becker said in a statement. <br>Kilcher will ‘vigorously defend herself and asks that she be afforded the presumption of innocence both in and outside the courthouse,’ Becker said<br> RELATED ARTICLES
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ShareHer most recent roles were in the TV series The Alienist (pictured in 2018) and as Channing Tatum’s ex-wife in Dog<br> Kilcher also starred in Neverland, and in Firelight alongside embattled Cuba Gooding, who faces charges for forcible touching and sexual abuse<br>Kilcher jumped to stardom at the age of 15 in 2005 when she starred as Pocahontas in the award-nominated film The New World. <br>She went on to star in the film The Power of Few before landing a title insurance policy schedule a (Get More Information) role in the 2009 feature Princess Kaiulani, where she portrayed the princess during the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.<br>Kilcher also starred in Neverland, and in Firelight alongside embattled Cuba Gooding, who faces charges for forcible touching and sexual abuse. <br>Her most recent roles were in the TV series The Alienist and as Channing Tatum’s ex-wife in Dog. <br>
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