An Indigenous actor has filed a lawsuit against James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company , claiming that her image was used without her consent as the basis for the character of Neytiri in Avatar . Q’orianka Kilcher filed the suit, with a press release (shared by The Guardian ) alleging that “one of Hollywood’s most powerful film-makers exploited a young Indigenous girl’s biometric identity and cultural heritage to create a record-breaking film franchise – without credit or compensation to her – through a series of deliberate, non-expressive commercial acts”. The lawsuit claims Cameron used an image of Kilcher published in The LA Times, promoting the 2005 film The New World , in which she played Pocahontas. The press release went on to describe a meeting between Kilcher and Cameron in 2010, after Avatar’s release, at which he told her he had a gift for her – a framed and signed sketch of Neytiri, with an inscription that read: “Your beauty was my early inspiration for Neytiri.…