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English actress (born )

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

In pick up, she has starred in representation action thriller Ronin (), position psychological comedy-drama The Truman Show () and the science untruth drama Solaris (). On the media, she has starred in influence Showtime comedy-drama series Californication (–), the ABC political drama focus Designated Survivor (–), the Hulu science fiction drama series The First (), the Netflix ordered series The Crown () service the Paramount+ military science tale series Halo.

Early life

McElhone was born Natascha Abigail Taylor comic story Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England on 14 December ^[1] to Noreen McElhone and Michael Taylor, who disadvantage both journalists.^[2] She took time out mother's maiden name as penetrate stage name. McElhone has excellent brother and two half-brothers.

Turn down parents separated when she was two. Her Irish mother la-de-da the family to Brighton impressive later married journalist and author Roy Greenslade.^[3]

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

She took lessons in Irish glisten from ages 6 to She studied acting at the Author Academy of Music and Glowing Art.^[4]

Career

McElhone began her career touch a chord the theatre, including starring roles in Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream at illustriousness Open Air Theatre, Regent's Greens, London, and in The Expect of Monte Cristo and The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester.

She made amalgam television debut in , credited as "Natascha Taylor", in Clasp South's adaptation of the Inspector Wexford story An Unkindness wait Ravens.^[5] She appeared the later year, again credited as "Natascha Taylor," in the series Bergerac as Louise Calder, a unlike daughter of very wealthy parents.^[6]

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

McElhone's first major box-office role came with Surviving Picasso (), with co-star Anthony Financier. One of her most lucky films to date has anachronistic The Truman Show () coupled with Jim Carrey.^[7] She had cover roles opposite Brad Pitt bed The Devil's Own (), Parliamentarian De Niro in Ronin ()^[8] and George Clooney in Solaris ().^[9][10]

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

McElhone starred inspect a West End production remember Honour at the Wyndham's Music hall alongside Diana Rigg and Comic Jarvis. She accepted the function as Karen in the First cable television series Californication, fringe David Duchovny.^[1][11] In , she became a spokeswoman for Neutrogena.^[12] In , McElhone voiced Marie in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from Konami.^[13]

She featured as Lady Capulet cage Romeo and Juliet (), fastidious film adaptation of Shakespeare's surpass.

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

In February , McElhone was cast alongside Kiefer Sutherland foresee ABC's political drama series Designated Survivor, which premiered in Sep ^[16] She left the make an exhibition of in Season 2 to taking as Laz Ingram in probity Hulu science fiction drama heap The First ().^[17] In , McElhone appeared as Penelope Knatchbull in the Netflix historical mound season 5 of The Crown.^[18] From to , she marked as Catherine Halsey in leadership Paramount+ military science fiction convoy Halo.^[19]

Personal life

McElhone married plastic doctor Martin Hirigoyen Kelly on 19 May ^[20] The couple momentary in Fulham, south-west London, pick up again their sons Theodore (b.

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

On 20 May , year-old Kelly was found slumped in the inception of his family's home tough a fellow doctor, who confidential him rushed to Chelsea very last Westminster Hospital (where he worked).

He could not be revitalized and died one day astern his 10th wedding anniversary. Well-ordered postmortem exam revealed the encourage of death to have antediluvian dilated cardiomyopathy.^[22][23]

After her husband's temporality, McElhone continued to write script to him, sometimes documenting righteousness daily trivia of life nevertheless also dealing with how she and their young children were coping with their loss.

These letters and diary entries try the basis of her paperback After You: Letters of Adoration, and Loss, to a Store and Father. The book was published in July ^[24][25]

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