Natalie Emmanuelle is a British actress. She is best known to audiences for her role as Missandei in Game of Thrones and her character Ramsay in the action films Fast and Furious 7 and Fast and Furious 8.
Biography
The full name of the famous actress is Natalie Joanna Emmanuel. She was born on March 2, 1989 in Southend-on-Sea, a seaside resort town in southern Essex. The actress has British citizenship. Natalie's father is half English and her mother is Dominican. She also had natives of the island state of Saint Lucia in her family. The famous actress has a half-sister, Louise.
Natalie Emmanuelle graduated from St Hilda's School and continued her education at Westcliff High School for Girls. Since childhood, she shone with acting skills, which did not go unnoticed by her family. Natalie attended theater courses and participated in various productions.
Career
The future star's career began in 2006 with her television role as Sasha Valentine in the Holliox soap opera, which aired since 1995. In this project, Emmanuelle appeared until 2010. Since the beginning of 2012, Natalie has participated in the BBC show.
In 2013, FHM magazine ranked Emmanuelle in 99th place on the list of 100 sexiest women. In 2015, the actress took the 75th position in a similar rating. The actress can often be seen on the covers of fashion magazines. Natalie considers herself a vegetarian. She explains her choice not only by her beliefs, but also by her state of health.
Filmography
In 2011, Natalie plays in the TV series Catastrophe. This is an English sitcom that premiered in early 2015 on UK Fourth. Created by Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney. The main roles in the show were performed by:
- Sharon Horgan;
- Rob Delaney;
- Carrie Fisher;
- Ashley Jensen;
- Mark Bonnard.
In total, 6 episodes were filmed in the sitcom. The audience of the series numbered one million viewers. The script for the 25-minute episode was written by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan.
In the same year, Emmanuelle got the role of Charlie in the British tragicomedy-sci-fi television series Bad. The show has been broadcast since 2009 in the UK and premiered in Russia a year later. Howard Overman became the creator of the series. According to the plot, 5 violators of the order perform community service and receive a lightning strike. After that, they acquire superpowers, for example, to read minds, turn back time, and be invisible. In total, 5 seasons of the show were filmed, 6-8 episodes each. Bad won the 2010 BAFTA Best Drama Series and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Series and Best Screenplay. In 2011, the show won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the British Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Drama.
In 2012, Emmanuelle played one of the main roles in the thriller "28 Thousand" by David Kew and Neil Thompson. This is a story about a teenager shot dead near a nightclub and the death of a girl. The cast also starred:
- Kaya Scodelario;
- Parminder Nagra;
- Stephen Dillane;
- Michael Soka;
- Kierston Waraing;
- Jonas Armstrong.
From 2013 to 2017 Natalie has been working in the TV series Game of Thrones. This is a fantasy based on the cycle of novels "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin. The filming was directed by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The series was created for the cable TV channel HBO. The series consists of 7 seasons. Game of Thrones has received numerous nominations and awards, including Emmy Awards, Scream, Television Critics Association Awards, Sputnik, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Golden Globes, George Foster Peabody Awards, British Academy Television Awards and Television Critics' Choice. The action takes place in a fictional universe like Europe during the Middle Ages. The show has many characters and several parallel storylines.
In 2015-2016 Natalie Emmanuel participates in 3 projects:
- crime thriller "Fast and Furious 7";
- the science fiction film Maze Runner: Trial by Fire;
- short film "Waves".
The seventh part of Fast and the Furious was directed by James Wang, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson. It is a sequel to 2013's Fast and Furious 6 and 2006's Fast and Furious Triple: Tokyo Drift. The Maze Runner: Trial by Fire, directed by Wes Ball, is a sequel to 2014's Maze Runner. The script is based on the 2nd novel in the Maze Runner series. The Comedy Waves was directed by Benjamin Dickinson. Juliana Caesar and Reggie Watts starred in the short film with Natalie Emmanuel.
In 2017, Natalie was invited to the American action film Furious 8, directed by F. Gary Gray and screenwriter Chris Morgan, featuring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Bridges, Scott Eastwood, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron.
In 2018, Emmanuelle starred in the American science fiction film The Maze Runner: The Death Cure, directed by Wes Ball. This is Part 3 of the Maze Runner series. In the same year, she participated in the creation of the sci-fi thriller Titan with Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling and Tom Wilkinson. The film was directed by Lennart Raff. According to the plot, due to the depletion of earth's resources, scientists are considering ways to colonize other planets.
