Nathalie Rapti Gomez

Nathalie Rapti Gomez is an actress who grew up in Italy and Greece after being born in Colombia. She left King's College London, giving up a scholarship and a pharmacy degree, to study acting for three years at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, earning her diploma in 2006 and settling into work in Italian cinema and on the country's major television networks. Her role in Ultimi della Classe, released as The Last in the Class (2008), brought her an Italian Golden Globe for best new actress and drew the interest of Italian, American and British co-productions. She made her Hollywood debut in Carlo Carlei's Romeo and Juliette and appeared in the English-language action film Ride, created by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro for Lucky Red and TimVision. She also acted in the Disney Channel UK production Penny On Mars 2 and the series Sanctuary.