Natascha McElhone

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Natasha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969) known professionally as Natascha McElhone is an English-Irish actress of stage, screen and television

Natascha McElhone best known for her roles in American films such as Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris. In addition, she is well known for her role as Karen van der Beek on the Showtime series Californication.


Designated Survivor
Absolutely Fabulous

Currently, she stars in the role of First Lady Alex Kirkman in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor.
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.


Karaoke

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.


Bill Pullman
Diana Rigg
Martin Jarvis

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.


Romeo and Juliet

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.

In February 2016, she was cast alongside Kiefer Sutherland in ABC’s political drama Designated Survivor, which premiered in September 2016.

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