Natascha McElhone is an English actress of stage, screen and television.
McElhone was born to parents who were both journalists. She took the maiden name of her mother, Noreen, as her stage name. McElhone has a script writer brother Damon who lives in Los Angeles, and two half brothers Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm. Her parents separated when she was two and her Scottish mother subsequently moved the family to Brighton and later married journalist and columnist Roy Greenslade. She and her family now live in Ireland and Brighton.
McElhone took lessons in Irish dancing from ages six to twelve, and was educated at St. Mary's Hall School for Girls, an independent boarding school in Brighton, East Sussex, England, after which she graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1993.
McElhone began her career in the theater, including starring in Richard III in Regent's Park. McElhone made her film debut in 1996's Surviving Picasso with Anthony Hopkins. In the same year she was seen in the Dennis Potter TV mini-series Karaoke. In 2005, the actress co-starred in the NBC miniseries Revelations with actor Bill Pullman. In 2010 she will be heard as the voice of Marie in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from Konami.
McElhone married plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Hirigoyen Kelly on 19 May 1998. The couple lived in Fulham, west London with their two sons: Theodore (born 2000) and Otis (born 2003); their third son, Rex, was born five months after Kelly's death, in October 2008.
On 20 May 2008, 43-year-old Kelly was found slumped in the doorway of the family home by a fellow doctor. He was rushed to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he worked, but could not be revived. He died one day after their tenth wedding anniversary. A post-mortem exam revealed the cause of death to have been dilated cardiomyopathy. After the sudden death of her husband, McElhone continued to write letters to him, sometimes documenting the daily trivia of life but also dealing with how she and their young children were coping with the trauma of the loss. These letters and diary entries formed the basis of her book "After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father". The book was published in July 2010.