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Played by: Natasha McElhone

Occupation: Architect

Signature look: Easy-going, casual and sexy.

Personality: Kind, quiet, and mysterious. Karen has a fiery, wild side and she tries to quell as much as possible. It usually only comes out when she’s with Hank.

Karen’s backstory: Karen was living in New York City as an art student at NYU and playing in a downtown noise band at CBGB’s when she met Hank Moody. Nine months after they met, Karen had their daughter, Rebecca.

VIRTUES AND VICES

Moral values: Kindness, honesty and putting family first

Vice(s): Smoking, drinking, the occasional joint and Hank,

Regret(s): Cheating on Bill…maybe???

Personal Goal(s): To marry Bill and have a normal life… and have 10,000 more of Hank’s babies.

Natascha McElhone as Karen

Date of Birth: 14/12/1971

Birth Place: London, England

Eye Color: green

Height: 5″7

Family: husband- dr Martin Kelly, 2 sons- Theo and Otis

Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Actor Bio:
Natascha McElhone will be seen later this year in the feature film Heaven & Earth, and next year in the British indie The Kid opposite Rupert Friend and Ioan Gruffud who she also co-starred with in last year’s children’s fantasy film The Secret of Moonacre. McElhone established herself as a talented leading actress in 1995 in her first film, Merchant Ivory’s Surviving Picasso, opposite Anthony Hopkins; followed by The Truman Show; The Devil’s Own; and John Frankenheimer’s action epic Ronin, co-starring Robert De Niro. She also starred opposite Kenneth Branagh in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. In 2003, McElhone co-starred with George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris. She previously shared the title role in Mrs. Dalloway with Vanessa Redgrave. She also starred in the Golden Globe®-nominated mini-series The Company. In 2005, she co-starred in the Emmy®-nominated mini-series Revelations. McElhone’s major film credits include City of Ghosts, Laurel Canyon, Ladies in Lavender and the original BBC production of The Other Boleyn Girl. McElhone’s early stage credits include starring roles in productions of Richard III, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Cherry Orchard and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2006, she starred in the West End production of the award-winning play Honour.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Movies: Solaris, The Truman Show, Ronin, Ladies in Lavender

TV Shows: The Other Boleyn Girl, Revelations

Stage: Honour, Richard III,The Count of Monte Cristo,Midsummer Night’s Dream

Big break: Surviving Picasso

Best-known character: Sylvia/Lauren in The Truman Show