Natassia Malthe

Natassia Malthe was born January 19, 1974, in Norway. Raised by her single mother, she and her sister Kristin passed their summers lounging around the country’s beaches as they worked on their tans. Apart from the company of her immediate family, however, Natassia admits she was something of a loner. “I didn’t have any friends, and I never went to the class parties,” she says. “It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they’re going to buy next summer.”

Freed from the monotony of petty conversation, Natassia Malte invested her energy in the arts instead, quickly becoming an accomplished singer and dancer. Following high school, she studied musical theater in London before moving to Canada where she continued her studies at the prestigious Goh Ballet Academy and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

It was in the Great White North that Natassia also kick-started her professional acting career, thanks to a small role in the sci-fi series Viper in 1996. Additional roles followed over the next two years in the television series Millennium and First Wave, and the film Disturbing Behavior (1998), a Katie Holmes thriller that not even Tom Cruise bothered to see.

A victim of her own good looks, Natassia Malte spent the next several years of her career playing roles like “Redhead at Party,” “Girl in Bed,” “French Maid,” and “Dirty Dancer.” Although her screen time was limited, she did at least have the good fortune of appearing in notable productions such as 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), Stark Raving Mad (2002), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and A Guy Thing (2003).

In addition to netting her thousands of new (and mostly male) fans, Natassia’s impressive performance in Elektra also lead to a plethora of new opportunities. In 2005 alone she starred in the films Bound by Lies, Awake and La belle dame sans merci, while also finding time to appear in television programs, such as Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber and Bloodsuckers. In 2006, she was cast in the action-adventure film DOA: Dead or Alive, the terrifying horror flick Skinwalkers and the crime thriller Chaos, starring Ryan Phillippe and Wesley Snipes.