NATALIE VALENTINE

Once told she has a "face for Chekhov" (and really took that to heart), Natalie Valentine is an LA-based actor whose training includes The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the Impulse Meisner Company in London.

She is drawn to complex and deeply human characters, spanning theatre, TV, and film.

Inspirations include (but are not limited to):

William Shakespeare · Fiona Shaw · Patti Smith · Ethan Hawke · hotel lobbies after midnight · Isabelle Huppert · Ingmar Bergman · Lana Del Rey · Antony Sher · Clarice Lispector · the moment of breath before speech · Simon Russell Beale · Nicole Dollanganger · notes-app poetry · Jerzy Grotowski · Audrey Hepburn · Sarah Kane · Fiona Apple · Lars Eidinger · Anaïs Nin · Blind Lizard Balkan · Juliet Binoche · Leo Tolstoy · Ethel Cain · Declan Donnellan · Harriet Walter · Leonard Cohen · Thomas Ostermeier · Gabi Abrao (Sigh Swoon) · Virginia Woolf · Stella Adler · Cate Blanchett · Heiner Müller · Amy Winehouse · Ivo van Hove · Franz Kafka · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Brook · Jeremy Stevens · Anton Chekhov · Simone de Beauvoir · Isabella Adjani · Tennessee Williams · the Eagles Nest Foundation · and her mother, Patricia Egly