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Natasha Henstridge Profile |
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Birth Date: August 15, 1974
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Birth Place: Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada
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Birth Name: Natasha Henstridge
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Natasha Henstridge was born August 15, 1974, in Springdale,
Newfoundland, Canada, to a housewife mother and a
biker/contractor father. After growing up in a trailer park
in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Natasha took off to Paris
at the age of 14 to pursue a modeling career.
By the time she was 15, Natasha had become a model for Oil
of Olay, Lady Stetson and Old Spice, appearing in ads and
commercials for the beauty products and fragrances. She also
graced the cover of French Cosmopolitan, as well as various
international fashion magazines.
While modeling in France gave Natasha the recognition she
deserved as a beautiful woman, she quickly became bored by
her job and did not feel that she was being challenged
enough. She sought something more exciting and presented
herself with a new creative challenge: acting.
Blurring the lines between acting and modeling, Natasha's
first role was in the science fiction feature film, Species.
The role of Sil, the alien in a woman's body trying to get
pregnant in order to reproduce her alien species, still
demanded a beautiful face and figure, both of which Natasha
possessed. She was chosen among over 100 other hopefuls, and
although she was one of the less experienced women to
audition, she succeeded in portraying her seductive yet evil
character. Natasha won an MTV Award for Best Kiss, which she
shared with her Species co-star.
While Species was physically demanding, it was not enough of
a role to consider Natasha a burgeoning actress. But more
roles began to follow her feature film debut. She was cast
in Maximum Risk with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adrenaline: Fear
The Rush, and appeared in an episode of Homeboys in Outer
Space in 1996.
True to the sci-fi theme, Natasha appeared in an episode of
The Outer Limits in 1997. A year later, she provided her
voice for an episode of South Park before the film roles
began piling up along with her list of admirers. She starred
in the sequel to Species in 1998, and appeared in Bela
Donna, Dog Park, Standoff, Kill You Twice, and It Had To Be
You, that same year.
In 2000, Natasha co-starred with Matthew Perry and Bruce
Willis in the comedy The Whole Nine Yards. As Cynthia
Tudeski, Natasha was believable as the wife of a mass
murderer, while showing off her model assets. She also
starred in the made-for-TV movie, Jason and the Argonauts.
Joining other models-turned-actresses such as Cameron Diaz
and Rene Russo, Natasha has surely met her challenge of
succeeding in another career. She has recently finished
working on Second Skin, Kevin of the North and A Better Way
to Die, and has starring roles lined up in The Judith Exner
Story and Ghosts of Mars, in a role Courtney Love was
originally set to play.
She next appeared in Bounce, co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow and
Ben Affleck, and 2001's dissapointing Ghosts of Mars.
In 2002, Natasha took on the TV world, with the lead role of
Cassie in the NBC action comedy, She Spies: Bad Girls Gone
Good. She is next set to rejoin the cast of The Whole Nine
Yards, for the sequel.
Presently living in Los Angeles, the actress that topped
Femmes Fatales magazine's "Sci-Fi's Sexy 50" list is also
the mother of Tristan River Waite, her son with fiancé Liam
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Other
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Son, with fiancee Liam Waite, Tristan River Waite, born. [12
October 1998]
#1 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine [1997]
Natasha was raised in a trailer park in Alberta, Canada. Her
father was a biker/contractor. Her mother was a housewife.
She left her home at age 14 to go to Paris to become a
model.
Measurements: 36-25-36. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Was asked to play the role of Jill Valentine in Resident
Evil: Apocalypse (2004), but could not accept due to other
work commitments.
Ranked #85 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The
World" (2002)
Became legally emancipated from her parents at age 14 so
that she could move to Paris to be a model.
Son, with fiancee Liam Waite, Asher Sky Waite, born.
[September 2001.]
Revealed in an interview with movie magazine Empire in 1998
that she is not very good at judging the scripts that are
offered to her. She turned down both Independence Day and
Men in Black, thinking "What is this shit?" while reading
the screenplays. |
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