Natasha Henstridge Facts & Quotes

Natasha hates flying on her own and has struggled with this fear ever since she became a mother.

Natasha was believed to have dated John Stamos at one time.

Natasha's middle name is believed to be Tonya.

Natasha spelled back words is "ah satan" which she acknowledged once on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.

Natasha was believed to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio at one time.

Her favorite color is green.

Natasha is believed to be a smoker, has tried to stop, but may still be smoking as of 2007.

Revealed in an interview with movie magazine Empire in 1998 that she is not very good at judging the scripts that are offered to her. She turned down both Independence Day and Men in Black, thinking "What is this shit?" while reading the screenplays.

Became legally emancipated from her parents at age 14 so that she could move to Paris to be a model.

Ranked #85 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" 2002.

Was asked to play the role of Jill Valentine in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), but could not accept due to other work commitments.

Measurements: 36-25-36. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Most likely these are inaccurate as of 2007.

Natasha was raised in a trailer park in Alberta, Canada. Her father was a biker/contractor. Her mother was a housewife. She left her home at age 14 to go to Paris to become a model.

#1 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine 1997.

She was once married to actor Damian Chapa. The marriage only lasted about 10 months.

Natasha has two tattoos - Intertwined male and female symbols on her tailbone, and a bearded lion wearing a crown on her right buttock.

Natasha has two sons - Tristan River Waite born October 1998 & Asher Sky Waite born September 2001.

Natasha Henstridge was born on the 15th of August, 1974 in Springdale, Newfoundland Canada.

"When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise."

"Well, thank you. I do exercise in fact I am an exercise freak. Can't do without my regular work out. I'm not letting you in on any more of my secrets!"

"Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!"

"Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them."

"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."

"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."

"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"

"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."

"I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today."

"I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!"

"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"

"I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress."

"I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie."

"Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?"

“It was scary. I was shooting for a lot of European magazines. I've always had a pretty strong head on my shoulders. But I called home a lot, and that would help me get my strength back when I needed it. But I love, love, love Paris.”

“I think I'm Irish, English or Scottish. Somewhere in that area. But my family is five generations Canadian.”

"I think my comfort with nudity definitely plays an important role in getting me my roles."

"I have such a tomboy quality, and I feel very comfortable in the presence of men. I "get" the way men think. I'm half man, quite frankly. I'm more of a girls' girl. I've never been a girly-girl."

"Girls are smarter at that age than boys."

"If we had to not have respect for every person that we knew dirty little secrets about, nobody would respect anybody. You know what I mean? It's like everybody's got their own little things. No matter -- you know what I mean?"

"The President should have a lot of privacy I think. He's the President of the United States. This whole country makes a mockery of him every day in the media. He has no respect. And it's bad for the whole country."

"I might sound very candid but I think my comfort with nudity definitely plays an important role in getting me my roles."

"I was about 12 years old when I started getting boobs. I never tried to hide them because I started to realize the power I had with them."

"Where is this 'Hollywood scene'? Where is it? I'd like to find it one day. If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York. That's where my friends are, and that's where you can go out to good clubs. Here, I swear, in two years I haven't even been out dancing once."