Early life

She was born Natasha Abigail Taylor in Surrey, in 1969 to Noreen and Mike Taylor, who were both journalists. She took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. McElhone has a scriptwriter brother, Damon, who lives in Los Angeles, and two half-brothers, Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm. Her parents separated when she was two and her Irish mother moved the family to Brighton, and later married journalist and columnist Roy Greenslade.

McElhone, who took lessons in Irish dancing from ages 6-12, was educated at St. Mary's Hall School for Girls, an independent boarding school in Brighton, Sussex. She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1993.

Career

McElhone began her career in the theatre, including starring roles in Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, and in The Count of Monte Cristo and The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester. She made her television debut in the BBC's Bergerac in 1991 (credited on screen as Natascha Taylor), and was seen in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous in 1992.

McElhone was seen in the Dennis Potter TV mini-series Karaoke. One of her most successful films to date has been 1998's The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. She had leading roles opposite Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own, Robert De Niro in Ronin and George Clooney in Solaris.

In 2005, she co-starred in the NBC miniseries Revelations with actor Bill Pullman. She starred in a 2006 West End production of Honour at the Wyndham's Theatre alongside Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis. She then accepted a leading role in the Showtime cable television series Californication as Karen, alongside David Duchovny. McElhone is the newest Neutrogena spokeswoman and the face of the Ageless Essentials Continuous Hydration line. In 2010 she was the voice of Marie in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from Konami.

McElhone co-starred in a 2013 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Damian Lewis. In 2014, she played the role of Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. In 2015, McElhone starred as Sarah Churchill in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne.

Personal life

McElhone married plastic surgeon Dr Martin Hirigoyen Kelly on 19 May 1998. The couple lived in Fulham, West London, with their sons Theodore (born 2000) and Otis (born May 2003); their third son, Rex, was born in October 2008, five months after Kelly's death.

On 20 May 2008, 43-year-old Kelly was found slumped in the doorway of his family's home by a fellow doctor, who had him rushed to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (where he worked). However, he could not be revived. He died one day after his 10th wedding anniversary. A post-mortem exam revealed the cause of death to have been dilated cardiomyopathy.

After her husband's sudden death, McElhone continued to write letters to him, sometimes documenting the daily trivia of life but also dealing with how she and their young children were coping with their loss. These letters and diary entries formed the basis of her book After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father. The book was published in July 2010. (The book is simply titled After You in the Kindle edition-UK version only.)

Film

List of film works

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Surviving Picasso	Françoise Gilot
1997	Devil's Own, TheThe Devil's Own	Megan Doherty
1997	Mrs Dalloway	Young Clarissa
1998	Truman Show, TheThe Truman Show	Lauren/Sylvia
1998	What Rats Won't Do	Kate
1998	Ronin	Deirdre
2000	Love's Labour's Lost	Rosaline
2000	Contaminated Man (de)	Holly Anders
2002	Laurel Canyon	Sara
2002	FeardotCom	Terry Huston
2002	Killing Me Softly	Deborah
2002	City of Ghosts	Sophie
2002	Solaris	Rheya
2004	Ladies in Lavender	Olga Daniloff
2005	Guy X	Sgt. Irene Teal
2006	Big Nothing	Penelope Wood
2008	The Secret of Moonacre	Loveday
2008	Blessed	Lou
2010	Kid, TheThe Kid	Gloria
2012	Carpet Boy	Jackie	in production
2013	The Sea	Connie Grace
2013	Romeo and Juliet	Lady Capulet
2014	Believe	Erica Gallagher
TBA	Heaven and Earth	James Miranda Barry	in production
2015	Henry Joseph Church	Marie	In post-production

Television

List of television works

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Ruth Rendell Mysteries, TheThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Helen Blake	Episode: "An Unkindness of Ravens (1)" Episode: "An Unkindness of Ravens (2)"
1991	Bergerac	Louise Calder	Episode: "Snow in Provence"
1994	Absolutely Fabulous	Art Gallery Assistant	Episode: "Death"
1994	Minder	Vanessa	Episode: "All Quiet on the West End Front"
1994	Cadfael	Cecily Corde	Episode: "The Sanctuary Sparrow"
1994	Breed of Heroes, AA Breed of Heroes	Janet	TV film
1996	Karaoke	Angie	TV serial
1996	Cold Lazarus	Angie	TV serial
2003	Other Boleyn Girl, TheThe Other Boleyn Girl	Mary Boleyn	TV film
2005	Revelations	Sister Josepha Montafiore	TV miniseries
2007	Company, TheThe Company	Elizabet Nemeth	TV miniseries
2007-2014	Californication	Karen van der Beek	84 Episodes
2009	10 Minute Tales	Woman	TV short film Segment: "Deep & Crisp & Even"
2010	Thorne: Sleepyhead	Anne Coburn
2015	Saints & Strangers	Elizabeth Hopkins	TV miniseries

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow	Marie Belmont
2014	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2	Marie Belmont

Awards

Awards and Nominations
Year	Nominated work	Award	Category	Result
1999	Ronin	MTV Movie Awards	Best Action Sequence (shared with Robert De Niro)	Nominated
2003	Solaris	Saturn Award	Best Actress	Nominated
2003	Solaris	Irish Film and Television Awards	Best Actress in Film	Nominated
2005	Revelations	Satellite Award	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television	Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]