Natasha Henstridge

Natasha Tonya Henstridge (born August 15, 1974) is a Canadian actress and former fashion model.

Biography
Henstridge was born in Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, on August 15, 1974, to Helen Henstridge, a homemaker, and Brian Henstridge, a construction manager and business owner. She was raised in Fort McMurray, Alberta, with her younger brother, Shane.

At age 14, Henstridge entered the Casablanca Modeling Agency's Look of the Year contest and was chosen first runner-up. The following year, she went to Paris to pursue her modeling ambitions and at the same year she was featured on her first magazine cover, the French edition of Cosmopolitan. After several more magazine covers, thanks to that, Henstridge went on to do television commercials for products in France and Germany.

Once her modeling career was established, she started doing commercials in America, where a latent interest she had in acting appeared. This later lead to her decision that she preferred acting.

At first Henstridge played in theatre. One of her first roles was as “Foxy Fox” in the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs staged in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Then, in 1995, she came to prominence with her debut movie role as the genetically engineered human-alien hybrid Sil in the science-fiction thriller Species, which she received after two screen tests in California. Other notable roles followed, which finaley led her to fully abandon her model career.

Later Henstridge also played the human-alien hybrid Eve in Species II (1998) and Species III (2004), while also participating in Ghosts of Mars (2001), though her prominence became diminished in time. She also appeared in television while also continuing to appear in other movies, inluding horror movies.