Nathalie was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, to a Greek father and Colombian mother but her and her family moved to Italy all together when she was only a few months old. There she spent the next five years shuttling between Rome and Palermo and had her first exposure in the entertainment/advertising business when she was only three years old, in an ad for Pampers.

In 1990, her father, a pharmacist, decided to move back to his native city of Thessaloniki in Greece. There Nathalie, continued to work as a child model while attending regular school and thus lead a typical childhood until her graduation from Pinewood Schools, the American School of Thessaloniki.

With her high-school diploma in hand, at eighteen she applied to King’s College London to study pharmacy but at the same time sent a “just in case” application to the prestigious National School of Cinema in Rome, feeling the deep need to express her latent creativity instead of choosing the safety of academic studies.

King’s College accepted her application while she received no reply from the National School of Cinema. Disappointed but fateful, she took a deep breath, accepted her first rejection in the “biz” and thought of burying her dream of acting in beautiful films and decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and so moved to London to study pharmacy.

However, there was a different destiny she was meant to follow and just as she had resolved to dedicate herself to her academic studies, she received an email from The National School of Roma, profusely apologizing for the late reply and indeed inviting her to Rome for an audition. If she made it past that first step, a final monthly try-out would be waiting for her.

Fierce and naturally determined, she flies to Rome, makes it through all her try-outs and finally wins one of the six available spots for the three year acting course that she so much wished for.

Back in Rome, this time her life would take her intended direction.