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Trivia
Birth name: Natasha Henstridge
Date of birth: 15 August 1974
Place of birth: Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Nickname: The Chick from Species
Spouse: Damian Chapa (26 August 1995 - 1996) (divorced)
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.
At the age of thirteen, she entered the Casablanca Modeling Agency's "Look of the Year" contest and was chosen first runner-up.
Henstridge went to Paris to pursue her modeling ambitions. At fifteen, she was featured on her first magazine cover, the French edition of Cosmopolitan.
Several magazine covers followed and Henstridge went on to do television commercials for products such as Olay, Old Spice, and Lady Stetson. Her modeling career established, Henstridge decided to try her luck in movies.
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)
Her first movie Species was a box office success. Her role as an alien determined to reproduce with a male human at the first opportunity, was notable for its sexual content. In the sequel Species II, she played a gentler and more docile version of the alien.
A few smaller movies followed, including Bela Donna and Dog Park, with varied box office returns.
Became legally emancipated from her parents at age 14 so that she could
move to Paris to be a model.
Natasha also starred in a music Video For Darius Danesh. The song was called Kinda Love. Darius said that after he saw her on The Whole Nine Yards, he knew she was the one. He also used to have a relationship with her but they broke up.
In her movie debut, in Species, Henstridge plays a genetically engineered human form with some of the DNA of an exterrestrial alien. She breaks from the captivity of a laboratory and embarks on a killing spree. A team of experts bands together to stop her. With a strong cast and an interesting story angle, Species was an instant cult hit. That year, Henstridge won the MTV Movie award for "best kiss.".
Species is perhaps the most successful debut movie for any model turned actress. The movie netted $60 million in North America and about $53 million overseas.
She has played a number of roles on television, such as Caracara, The Outer Limits, and She Spies.
She has two tattoos - intertwined male and female symbols, and a bearded lion wearing a crown.
Henstridge was working on the TV show She Spies, prior to its cancellation. She has also completed a TV movie titled Widow on the hill which has received critical acclaim. Henstridge has begun taking roles in independent films to help build up her acting credibility. She is settled in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills with fiancé and sons (Tristan and Asher).
Henstridge played the protagonist in her TV movie, Caracara, which received poor ratings. She plays a lonely ornithologist Rachel Sutherland who allows her home to become an observation post for the F.B.I., in their efforts to zero-in on a would-be assassin of a foreign president. She falls in love with one of the agents, who turns out to be the assassin himself. How Rachel foils the assassination and escapes from the grip of the assassin is the subject of the rest of the story.
Son, with fiancee Liam Waite, Asher Sky Waite, born. [September 2001.]
She played in a multilingual movie called Bela Donna which did well in Brazil and South America. In the movie, she plays a wife to an explorer who goes on a treasure hunting spree to Brazil. There she is stalked by a fisherman with whom she falls in love. What follows is a web of intrigue, betrayal and suspense. The movie received positive reviews in Brazil, where it was exclusively shot and her role widely acclaimed.
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.
Henstridge was married to actor Damian Chapa twice. However, the second marriage lasted only a few months. She has a son by Liam Waite, called Tristan River Waite, born October 14, 1998, and a second son, Asher Sky Waite, born in September 2001.
Natasha has a son, Tristan River Waite, who was born in 1998.
She has a recurring role on Commander in Chief starring Geena Davis as a fictional female U.S. President.
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