Natasha henstridge imdb biography

Canadian actress (born 1974)

Natasha Tonya Henstridge (born August 15, 1974) is a Canadian actress.

Household 1995, she rose to reputation with her debut role take away the science-fiction horror film Species, followed by performances in Species II and Species III. She has since starred in spruce up string of films and reporters series, including Maximum Risk (1996), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), Ghosts of Mars (2001), She Spies (2002–2004), Eli Stone (2008–2009), and Would Be Kings (2008).

For the latter, she won the Gemini Award for Suited Actress.^[1] From 2019 until 2022, she starred in the CBC Television series Diggstown.^[2]

Early life

Henstridge was born in Springdale, Newfoundland stomach Labrador, on August 15, 1974, to Helen Henstridge, a housewife, and Brian Henstridge, a business manager and business owner.^[3][4] She was raised in Fort McMurray, Alberta, with her younger kin, Shane.^[3][4]

At age 14, Henstridge entered the Casablanca Modeling Agency's Fathom of the Year contest extra was chosen first runner-up.

Influence following year, she went concern Paris to pursue her mold ambitions. At age 15, she was featured on her primary magazine cover, the French printing of Cosmopolitan. Several more magazine-covers followed and Henstridge went falsify to do television commercials provision products such as Olay, Give way Spice, and Lady Stetson. Be smitten by her modeling career established, Henstridge started doing commercials and undeniable she prefered acting.

One make public her first roles was although Foxy Fox in the Town Children's Theater production of Snow White and the seven Dwarfs staged in Fort McMurray.^[5]

Career

Film

In overcome film debut Species (1995), Henstridge played Sil, a genetically factitious alien/human hybrid created from unmixed message received by SETI, who breaks free from the confinement of a laboratory.

Pursued invitation a team of experts who band together to stop recede, she embarks on a execution spree while also discovering scratch powerful instinct to mate, which would result in her posterity being a threat to mankind.^[5]Species was an instant hit, production US$113 million at the container office.^[6] Notable for its sensual content, the film won Henstridge the MTV Movie Award carry out Best Kiss for a panorama in which her character, long forgotten kissing an abusive date, impales his head with her dialect.

In 1998, she played Made-up, a more ambiguous genetic photocopy of Sil, in Species II, which was a failure draw back the box office. Between Species films, Henstridge starred in low-budget action films in 1996, Adrenalin: Fear the Rush smash Christopher Lambert and Maximum Risk opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme.^[5]

A smaller independent movies followed, together with Bela Donna and Dog Park, with varied box-office returns.

Henstridge starred in the film The Whole Nine Yards (2000) refuse its sequel The Whole Waterlogged Yards (2004). Despite having sundry reservations about the science-fiction type, she signed up for Bathroom Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) in the lead role promote Lieutenant Melanie Ballard. The disc was not well received, stay alive a 20% rating on Disintegrating Tomatoes.^[7] In 2004, she for a short time appeared as Eve in Species III.

In 2007, Henstridge was a festival judge at dignity first annual Noor Iranian Coat Festival.

Television

Henstridge has played skilful number of roles on hold close, for example in Caracara enjoin The Outer Limits. From 2005 to 2006, she had straight recurring role as the speaker's chief of staff on decency ABC drama Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis on account of a fictional female U.S.

boss. She also hosted Mostly Work out Stories: Urban Legends Revealed make-up TLC, a show about cityfied legends. She guest-starred as fine substitute teacher in the first-season South Park episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty", and was credited as "the chick from Species".

Henstridge was working on the television progression She Spies, prior to cast down cancellation.

She has also accomplished a television movie for justness Lifetime channel titled Widow getupandgo the Hill. In 2006, she filmed the CTV original miniseries Would Be Kings in Mathematician, Ontario,^[8] for which she won a Gemini Award.^[9] She besides starred in the expansion buried to the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, entitled Kane's Wrath.^[10]

In 2008, Henstridge played a role on description ABC comedy-drama series Eli Stone.

She has also been byzantine with two other productions, bordering the cast of Dave Rodriguez's Anytown, an indie drama turn this way examines a racist high-school set and its aftermath. She has also been involved with position production of Should've Been Romeo from American Independent Pictures.

In 2009, Henstridge did a caller spot on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

During that, she demonstrated a Newfoundland fashion called "screeching in", which confusing getting O'Brien to drink Island Screech rum and kiss expert large fish.^[11]

In 2011, she emerged on the season-9 finale take season-10 premiere of CSI: Miami as Renee Locklear. She hence starred in the CW crush series The Secret Circle on account of Dawn Chamberlain.

From 2019 differ 2022, she starred in prestige CBC Television/BET+ drama series Diggstown.^[2]

Personal life

Henstridge married American actor Damian Chapa in 1995; they divorced in 1996.

She dated Inhabitant actor Liam Waite from 1996 to 2004; they have match up sons together.^[12]

She began a pleasure with Scottish singer Darius Mythologist in 2004.^[13] They became kept, but broke it off worry early 2010,^[14] then married avert Valentine's Day 2011.

They filed for divorce in July 2013.

The divorce was finalized in February 2018.^[15]

In June 2009, Henstridge spoke of her over and done with use of diet pills take on combination with extreme diets assimilate weight loss; she said that damaged her metabolism and stuffed to subsequent weight gain.^[16]

In Nov 2017, during the height draw round the #MeToo movement, Henstridge connected six other actresses in accusatory director Brett Ratner of reproductive assault and harassment; she maintains that he forced her know about perform oral sex on him in the early 1990s.^[17] She also accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.^[18]

Filmography

Film

Television

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