- Born
- Birth nameNatasha Abigail Taylor
- Nickname
- Tash
- Height5′ 9¼″ (1.76 m)
- Natascha McElhone was born in Walton on Thames, Surrey. She attended several schools, Camden School for Girls being the last.
Natascha McElhone established herself as a talented leading actress when she left drama school in 1993 to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso, opposite Anthony Hopkins.
She quickly followed this with Peter Weir's film, The Truman Show; Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own, with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford; and John Frankenheimer's action epic Ronin, in which she co-starred with Robert De Niro. She also played Rosalind to Kenneth Branagh's Berowne in his musical version of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
In 2003, McElhone co-starred with George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh's futuristic love story, Solaris. McElhone starred in TNT's mini-series The Company, a Golden Globe-nominated drama. In 2005, she starred in NBC's Emmy-nominated mini-series, Revelations.
Natascha McElhone stars opposite David Duchovny in the Golden Globe-winning Showtime series Californication (2007).
McElhone also stars in the children's fantasy film, The Secret Of Moonacre Manor, with Ioan Gruffud. She shared the title role in Mrs Dalloway with Vanessa Redgrave directed by Oscar winning director Marleen Gorris. McElhone's other major film credits include City Of Ghosts, with Matt Dillon and Gérard Depardieu; Laurel Canyon, with Christian Bale and Francis McDormand; and Ladies In Lavender, with Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
She has most recently starred in The Kid and in two other British feature films 'The Theatre Of Dreams' with Toby Stephens and Brian Cox and in Julian Fellowes' adaptation of 'Romeo And Juliet' to be released March 2013. She has just completed filming 'The Sea' starring with Rufus Sewell, Ciaran Hinds and Charlotte Rampling also to be released in 2013.
- IMDb mini biography by: A. Nascè
- SpouseDr. Martin Hirigoyen Kelly(May 19, 1998 - May 20, 2008) (his death, 3 children)
- ChildrenTheodore KellyRex KellyOtis Kelly
- ParentsNoreen McElhone
- RelativesDamon Taylor(Sibling)
- Natascha McElhone is of Scottish ancestry.
- Her husband, Martin Kelly, was found dead on Tuesday 20 May 2008. Natascha, while pregnant with son Rex, was filming in the States at the time of his death and flew home straight away. It is thought he suffered a heart attack. It was the day after their tenth wedding anniversary.
- She pronounces her surname McElhone as "Mackle-hone".
- Graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London, England (1990-1993).
- Her stage surname, McElhone, is her mother's maiden name.
- Her mother (Noreen) is Irish.
- I wanted to know whether the character was going to be 'the wife' or 'the girlfriend', which bores me to tears and is endemic. I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
- I think I was ambitious. I still am. A lot of the stuff that was coming my way was stuff I just didn't want to do, so it might have seemed like lack of ambition to shy away from that, but if it sticks in your throat... I just wanted to do what I wanted to do and which I thought said something.
- Now I'm the sole breadwinner... I have to work. I have to try and work non-stop, actually, to make things work.
- I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
- Somebody said something wonderful to me the other day, Martin's best mate, he said, 'But Tash, you talk about status quo, there is no such thing as status quo, things change all the time, and if this hasn't taught you that...
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