Natasha Bassett

Australian actress
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Natasha Bassett is an Australian actress and screenwriter born in Sydney, New South Wales.

Bassett went on her first audition at 14, landed the lead role in the Australian Theatre for Young People's production of Romeo and Juliet, moving on to study, write, and perform at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. This led to Bassett performing under the artistic direction of Cate Blanchett in Sydney Theatre Company's stage production of "Bookends".

Bassett landed the lead in the MTV film Dungoona (2009) and appeared on several Australian television series, Rake (2010), Wild Boys (2011), and Cops L.A.C. (2010), while attending classes. After graduating high school, she appeared in P.J. Hogan's film Mental (2012), alongside Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber, and traveled to Paris to play the lead in the feature, The Last Goodbye (2013).

At 19, she was awarded a screenwriting scholarship from the ArtStart Screenwriters Program, where she wrote and directed her short film, Kite (2013). The short was featured in the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Balinale International Film Festival, and the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival.

Bassett moved to New York City, studied at the Atlantic Acting School, and relocated to Los Angeles for the NBC series Camp (2013). Shortly after landing, she booked Fox network sitcom No Place Like Home and made her "breakout role” as 50s-era starlet Gloria DeLamour in the Coen Bros' Hail, Caesar! (2016) with George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.

Bassett continued to play several film roles in the United States starring in thrillers, House by the Lake, The Pale Door, Desolate, Spinning Man, opposite Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver, and indie drama Katie Says Goodbye with Mary Steenburgen, as well as comedy film Spy Intervention, ABC series Operation Buffalo and 12 Mighty Orphans with Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall. Bassett played Britney Spears in the Lifetime biopic Britney Ever After in 2017.

Bassett appears in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis as Dixie Locke, Elvis Presley's first girlfriend, alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. To promote the film, Bassett, walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022. The film received a 10-minute standing ovation.

She portrayed the lead role in romantic comedy Don't You Be My Neighbor! opposite Abhay Deol; the film's release date is yet to be announced.

Bassett has been writing a noir thriller novel.

Date of Birth16th October 1992
Age32 Years
Zodiac SignLibra
CountryAustralia
Current CitySydney
Birth PlaceSydney
NationalityAustralia
CitizenshipAustralia
Occupationactor

Movies / Shows by Natasha Bassett

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Hail, Caesar!