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Birth Name: Natasha Gregson 

Mini Biography

She was surrounded by Hollywood glamor from the onset as the daughter of film star Natalie Wood and British producer/writer/agent Richard Gregson, who was married to Wood from 1969-1972. Natasha Gregson was born on September 29, 1970, in Los Angeles. Her sister was of Russian heritage and christened her Natalia but affectionately nicknamed her Natasha in the coursework of her childhood -- hence, the name. Her parents separated before he was even a year elderly, and Natalie married Robert Wagner months before Natasha turned. It is not very surprising, therefore, that the young girl expressed an early interest in acting. The tragic Catalina Island drowning of her sister on November 29, 1981, when Natasha was only 11, left deep emotional scars that would ultimately carryover in to the dark-edged roles he would play in Hollywood.

The dark-eyed & dark-haired actress definitely bears over a passing resemblance to her sister than her famous mom. Unlike Natalie, Natasha has downplayed the glamor & displays an unusual, ditsy-like appeal. Refusing to conform to Hollywood standards, he's in lieu carved out her own individual path, finding herself much more interested in offbeat & unconventional material. He debuted in a minor part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) & initially went around playing cute & plucky in such innocuous TV-movie fare as The Shaggy Dog (1994) (TV), the remake of the 1950s Disney classic, & the juvenile delinquent 1950s spoof Dragstrip Girl (1994) (TV). In 1995 Natasha had a top role in of the "Hart to Hart" TV mini-movies that served to reunite her former stepfather along with his former co-star Stefanie Powers.

Natasha started making a major buzz soon thereafter as her characters grew edgier, uninhibited and more risk-taking. In David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) they turned heads as Balthazar Getty's cheating girlfriend, and played an adulterous spouse in Calm Days in Hollywood (1995). The ball started rolling together with her standout role as the feisty, street-savvy Lou in the improvisation-styled romantic triangle Girls as well as a Man (1997). With Robert Downey Jr. and Heather Graham, the film truly captured Natasha's gift for gab and off-the-wall magnetism. From there they continued to offer solid work in hit-and-miss showcases. They co-starred with Giovanni Ribisi in the sexy, no-holds-barred First Love, Last Rites (1997) as a white-trash couple who assertively reevaluate their relationship between the sheets. Her most prominent film to date was Another Day in Paradise (1998), where they and Vincent Kartheiser played a drug-addicted couple who goes on the run with James Woods and Melanie Griffith. Natasha had explicit sex scenes with Kartheiser in the film, of which was cut from the theatrical release in order to keep away from an NC-17 rating. Although Natasha has taken a couple of U-turns in to the mainstream, notably as a decapitated victim in the slasher horror opus Urban Legend (1998), they have been few and far between.

During the filming of the well-received John Cusack film High Fidelity (2000), Natasha & the film's screenwriter/co-producer D.V. DeVincentis became an item, & the couple married in 2003, but divorced in 2008. Natasha was a cast member of the short-lived TV series "Pasadena" (2001). They continues her affinity for the odd but compelling with the more recent films Glam (1997), The Medicine Show (2001), Wishing Time (2003) & Wonderland (2003), the last a sensationalized account of the true-life mass murder committed by Los Angeles dope dealers in which drug-ravaged porn star John Holmes was involved -- Natasha portrayed of the victims. In more recent years, they has appeared in less independent films & resorted to visitor roles on TV shows like "House M.D." (2004) in 2008. Natasha had a long-term relationship with Josh Evans.