Director James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company have been sued for unauthorized use of an Indigenous actress’ likeness without her knowledge and consent. In the complaint, obtained by Variety, actress Q'orianka Kilcher alleges that when she was 14 and had recently appeared as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s film "The New World,

Actress Q’orianka Kilcher filed a lawsuit against filmmaker James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday, alleging that her facial features were used without consent or compensation to create the lead character in the “Avatar” film franchise.

James Cameron and Disney are facing a lawsuit over the alleged unauthorised use of an actress’ likeness during the production of the 2009 film Avatar, reports Variety. Filed by actor Q’orianka Kilcher,

Q'orianka Kilcher has filed a lawsuit alleging that an image of her as a 14-year-old served as inspiration for Zoe Saldaña's character, Neytiri.

Kilcher alleges that the director extracted her facial features after seeing her performance in a 2005 film, which she appeared in when she was 14, for use as the basis of the Neytiri character.

German-born US actress Q'orianka Kilcher, who is of indigenous Peruvian descent, alleged that in 2005 - when she was 14 - Cameron "extracted her facial features" from a photograph of her portraying Pocahontas in another film,

Q'orianka Kilcher is seeking damages after the "Titanic" filmmaker said that he used "her lower face" in a sketch of Zoe Saldaña's character Neytiri.

The complaint includes excerpts from interviews between Cameron and his production team that mention Kilcher by name and describe how her likeness was used as inspiration for the