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Main Movie Roles 2008 - The Secret of Moonacre 2006 - Big Nothing 2002 - City of Ghosts 2002 - FearDotCom 2002 - Killing Me Softly 2002 - Solaris 2000 - Contaminated Man 1998 - Ronin 1998 - The Truman Show 1997 - The Devil's Own

BIOGRAPHY:

Natascha McElhone was born on December 14, 1971, in Hampstead, London, England, and raised in Brighton, England, by journalist parents. She has several brothers but is the only girl. She took lessons in Irish dancing from age of six to 12. She attended St. Mary's Hall School for Girls in Brighton, East Sussex, from 1982-1986. Her family now resides in a small town in Ireland.

She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for three years, graduating in 1993, before beginning her career in the theater. Her early stage credits include starring roles in London and Manchester productions of "Richard III" at Regent's Park, "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Cherry Orchard" at the Leicester Haymarket and on national tour, and in "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre.

She debuted on British television in a 1991 episode of "Bergerac" (1981) and, three years later, played an army officer in A Breed of Heroes (1994) (TV), a BBC drama production. Other television credits include an episode of "Absolutely Fabulous" (1992), and again in 1994.

In 1996, she made her film debut in Surviving Picasso (1996) and starred in the acclaimed Dennis Potter (I) TV mini-series "Karaoke" (1996). Since then, she has appeared in a handful of other films, the most successful of these being The Truman Show (1998), though, in 2002 alone, she made five films, including City of Ghosts (2002) and Killing Me Softly (2002).


TRIVIA:

• Gave birth to her third child at London's Chelsea and Westminister Hospital in October, 2008 [November 11, 2008].
• Daughter of 'Noreen Taylor' (qv) and stepdaughter of 'Roy Greenslade' (qv).
• Her parents split when she was 2.
• Her mother (Noreen) is Irish.
• Her husband, Martin Kelly, was found dead in the doorway of their London home on Tuesday 20 May 2008. Natascha was filming in the States at the time of his death and flew home straight away. It is thought he suffered a heart attack.
• Parents were journalists.
• Graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London, England (1990-1993).
• She has three sons, Theodore (Theo) (b. 2000), Otis (b. May 2003), and Rex (b. October 2008).