Natasha Bassett

Natasha Bassett is an Australian screenwriter and actress who started auditioning at 14. She took the lead in the Australian Theatre for Young People's Romeo and Juliet, then studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Under Cate Blanchett's direction at Sydney Theatre Company she appeared in Bookends. She was the lead in the MTV production Dungoona, followed by Australian TV work on Rake and Wild Boys. After high school she appeared in Mental (2012). At 19 she received a screenwriting scholarship from ArtStart and made the short Kite, which she wrote and directed. She studied at the Atlantic Acting School and moved to Los Angeles, where her breakthrough was as a 1950s starlet in Hail, Caesar! She appeared in Spinning Man (2018). She had a part in The Pale Door (2020). She acted alongside Mary Steenburgen in the indie drama Katie Says Goodbye (2018). She played Britney Spears in Britney Ever After (2017), and Dixie Locke in Elvis (2022).