Natalie Press

Natalie Press is an English actress whose career has been largely in independent film. She is from north London and studied fine art at university before working as an office temp and a video store clerk. Her earliest credited screen appearance came in 2001, in an episode of the BBC series Holby City, and her film debut, and first lead, came in the short Wasp (2003), which later collected an Academy Award. Her work in My Summer of Love (2004) drew notice from the London Film Critics Circle and from the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and brought a European Film Award nomination. She starred in Red Road (2006), appeared in the Dickens serial Bleak House, and gained a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008). The BBC miniseries Five Daughters brought her a BAFTA TV Award nomination. She made her professional stage debut at the Royal Court in 2004.