Richard Linklater's actress daughter sentenced for cocaine possession

Director Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelei has been sentenced to three years' probation for cocaine possession.

The 23-year-old actress, who starred in her father's Oscar-winning 2014 film Boyhood, was arrested after her car collided with another vehicle on a highway near Waco, Texas in May last year (16).

State troopers found pills in her car and a bag in her purse that contained cocaine.

Lorelei pleaded guilty to a cocaine possession charge in April, and last week, Waco District Judge Ralph Strother sentenced her to three years on deferred adjudication probation on the drug charge. He also fined her $1,000 , according to editors at the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Accepting the sentence without complaint, her lawyer Rob Swanton said: "She is a very nice, young lady who made a very simple mistake and accepted responsibility for it, and the judge imposed a very appropriate punishment."

If she completes her probation successfully, Lorelei will avoid the conviction being permanently on her record.

The actress' most prominent role to date came in her father's coming-of-age drama Boyhood, which depicted a young boy's journey to adulthood and was filmed over 12 years.

In the movie, Lorelei played Samantha Evans, the older sister of Ellar Coltrane's lead character Mason Evans Jr. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, with Patricia Arquette winning the Best Supporting Actress prize.

She will also star alongside Kirsten Dunst in Woodshock, a new drug-fueled thriller due for release in September.