--- description: The 32-year-old told her father she was suicidal on Oct. 5 and went missing a day later. title: Body Believed to Be Misty Upham Found image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c3c0d9abcb670a/69876141a988ca7bf96a9df2/475964433.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Body Believed to Be That of Actress Misty Upham Has Been Found by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 17, 2014 5:31 AM CUT  Actress Misty Upham from "August: Osage County" poses at a private photo shoot on March 1, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Actress Misty Upham from "August: Osage County" poses at a private photo shoot on March 1, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.Brian To—WireImage by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 17, 2014 5:31 AM CUT Local police said late Thursday night that a body [found](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=334624220032288&id=142718982556147 "undefined") in a wooded area outside Seattle was believed to that of missing actress Misty Upham. The 32-year-old _August: Osage County_ actress had been reported missing by her father on Oct. 6\. A day earlier, she had told her father she was [suicidal](http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/body-found-auburn-believed-be-missing-actress-mist/nhkmh/?%5F%5Ffederated=1 "undefined"), local television station KIRO reports. Police in Auburn, a suburb near Seattle, said in statement that a person in a search party organized by Upham’s family had found the body at around 1 p.m. on Thursday. “Because a purse containing identification of Misty Upham was at the scene, the body is presumed to be that of Upham,” the police said. A spokesperson for the family told _Variety_ that the body has since been positively [identified](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/august-osage-county-actress-misty-upham-confirmed-dead-at-32-1201332431/ "undefined"). Police said there was no initial evidence of foul play, but the body had been turned over to the local medical examiner’s officer for a determination of the cause of death. It took almost five hours and a 10-person crew to recover the body from “150 feet down a steep embankment near the river heavily covered in brush,” police said. Upham also had roles in _Frozen River_ and _Django Unchained_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3514924/misty-upham-body-dead-seattle-august-osage-county/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3514924/misty-upham-body-dead-seattle-august-osage-county/"},"headline":"A Body Believed to Be That of Actress Misty Upham Has Been Found","datePublished":"2014-10-17T05:31:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:51:02.315Z","description":"The actress had told her father she was suicidal","url":"https://time.com/3514924/misty-upham-body-dead-seattle-august-osage-county/","keywords":["celebrities","movies","obituaries"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c3c0d9abcb670a/69876141a988ca7bf96a9df2/475964433.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c3c0d9abcb670a/69876141a988ca7bf96a9df2/475964433.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Misty Upham Photo Shoot - Los Angeles, CA","caption":"Actress Misty Upham Photo Shoot - Los Angeles, CA","creditText":"Brian To—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3514924/misty-upham-body-dead-seattle-august-osage-county/","name":"A Body Believed to Be That of Actress Misty Upham Has Been Found"}}]}] ```