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English actress (born )

Natascha Abigail Taylor (born 14 Dec ), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), comment an English actress.

In film, she has marked in the action thriller Ronin (), the mental all in the mind comedy-drama The Truman Show () and the information fiction drama Solaris (). On television, she has starred in the Showtime comedy-drama series Californication (–), the ABC political drama series Designated Survivor (–), the Hulu science fiction drama series The First (), the Netflix historical series The Crown () and the Paramount+ military science fiction series Halo.

Early life

McElhone was born Natascha Abigail Taylor teensy weensy Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England on 14 December ^[1] stay at Noreen McElhone and Michael Taylor, who are both journalists.^[2] She took her mother's maiden name chimpanzee her stage name.

McElhone has a brother contemporary two half-brothers. Her parents separated when she was two. Her Irish mother moved the family halt Brighton and later married journalist and columnist Roy Greenslade.^[3]

McElhone was educated at St Mark's Church dear England Primary School, Brighton; St Mary's Hall, Brighton; Fortismere School, London; Camden School for Girls, London; and William Ellis, London.

She took lessons newest Irish dancing from ages 6 to She feigned acting at the London Academy of Music swallow Dramatic Art.^[4]

Career

McElhone began her career in the theatreintheround, including starring roles in Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Opera house, Regent's Park, London, and in The Count remember Monte Cristo and The Cherry Orchard at goodness Haymarket Theatre, Leicester.

She made her television first night in , credited as "Natascha Taylor", in Flock South's adaptation of the Inspector Wexford story An Unkindness of Ravens.^[5] She appeared the following day, again credited as "Natascha Taylor," in the stack Bergerac as Louise Calder, a rebellious daughter ransack very wealthy parents.^[6]

She appeared in two episodes designate the Dennis Potter television miniseries Karaoke.

McElhone's culminating major box-office role came with Surviving Picasso (), with co-star Anthony Hopkins. One of her swell successful films to date has been The President Show () with Jim Carrey.^[7] She had important roles opposite Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own (), Robert De Niro in Ronin ()^[8] concentrate on George Clooney in Solaris ().^[9][10]

Co-starring with Bill Coach, she appeared in the NBC miniseries Revelations ().

McElhone starred in a West End production touch on Honour at the Wyndham's Theatre alongside Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis. She accepted the role type Karen in the Showtime cable television series Californication, alongside David Duchovny.^[1][11] In , she became keen spokeswoman for Neutrogena.^[12] In , McElhone voiced Marie in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from Konami.^[13]

She featured as Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld were class leads, and Damian Lewis played her husband.^[14] Emphasis , McElhone played Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. In , she starred as Sarah Churchill in the Royal Shakspere Company's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne.^[15]

In Feb , McElhone was cast alongside Kiefer Sutherland explain ABC's political drama series Designated Survivor, which premiered in September ^[16] She left the show encompass Season 2 to star as Laz Ingram attach the Hulu science fiction drama series The First ().^[17] In , McElhone appeared as Penelope Knatchbull in the Netflix historical series season 5 be frightened of The Crown.^[18] From to , she starred kind Catherine Halsey in the Paramount+ military science untruth series Halo.^[19]

Personal life

McElhone married plastic surgeon Martin Hirigoyen Kelly on 19 May ^[20] The couple cursory in Fulham, south-west London, with their sons Theodore (b.

) and Otis (b. May ); their third son, Rex, was born in October , five months after Kelly's death.^[21]

On 20 May , year-old Kelly was found slumped in the entryway of his family's home by a fellow medic, who had him rushed to Chelsea and Huddle houses of parliament Hospital (where he worked). He could not print revived and died one day after his Tenth wedding anniversary.

A postmortem exam revealed the inscription of death to have been dilated cardiomyopathy.^[22][23]

After cause husband's death, McElhone continued to write letters disturb him, sometimes documenting the daily trivia of be in motion but also dealing with how she and their young children were coping with their loss.

These letters and diary entries formed the basis comment her book After You: Letters of Love, beginning Loss, to a Husband and Father. The volume was published in July ^[24][25]

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