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Nathalie Kelley (born in Lima, Peru 1985) is a Peruvian actress, most notable for playing Neela in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Born in Lima, Peru, to a Peruvian mother and Argentine father, Kelley moved to Sydney, Australia at the age of 2. She dreamed about being an actress when she was 13 years old, and coincidentally attended the same school as Nicole Kidman, North Sydney Girls High School on Sydney's north shore. She studied Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, and also worked as a volunteer with indigenous Australian youth in the inner-city suburb of Redfern before moving to Los Angeles and becoming an actress.
The young actor, who has been torn between show business and an academic life, says she never met Kidman but the 38-year-old superstar has been a long-time inspiration.
When she was 16 she became a salsa dancer which helped her get the money to finish education. Also "The Miss Latin America competition" earned for her a much-needed $1000 and the next thing she took a year off and went to Brazil.
The things Kelley saw there prompted her to shun show business and come home to launch herself into a social science degree.
Kelley was three years into the degree when she came back into the performing fold to take the title role for the Aaron Spelling-produced TV pilot Mermaid.
She determined to finish her course one day and even to go on to do a PhD, but in the meantime she often feel torn between two worlds.
Kelley went to Los Angeles and told agents she wanted to be in the sort of films she had grown up with mainly serious art-house productions, but was warned that such single-mindedness would send her broke.
And in the end she opted for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) because the character of Neela in the film is such a strong individual. |
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