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Natalie Goldwin (née Nastulczykova), is an American actress, originally from a small rural town of Karvina, Czech Republic. Her father, a coal miner and her mother, an office clerk, instilled in Natalie a discipline of hard work and perseverance. She came from an artistic family, her mom a gymnast, and her granduncle a famous painter (Rudolf Zebrok). Almost everyone in Natalie's family plays a musical instrument, she studied trumpet and guitar. Natalie made her first television appearance at 12 years old on a popular game show Tutovka. She then joined a youth-theater company Pesinky, performing plays and dance shows around the country.
Natalie attended a vocational high school similar to a police academy where she studied subjects like criminology, law, cynology, police tactics and self defense. She also trained in parachuting/sky diving, rock climbing, scuba diving, gun handling and shooting and survival skills. Natalie was the second best athlete of the school for three consecutive years and was awarded a scholarship.
After graduating high school Natalie moved to Prague to pursue modeling and acting. She booked several commercials including ones for Wella and Schwarzkopf. A year later, she moved to the US after obtaining a job as an Au-Pair nurturing and caring for children. While studying acting and auditioning, she attended Santa Monica College, focusing on theater arts and kinesiology. She joined the diving team and received a scholarship for her outstanding athletic achievements in competition. Two years later she transferred to Long Beach University where she received a B.A. in Theater Arts Performance with a Minor in Music.
Natalie is a black belt in Kung Fu/Wushu from the Shaolin Wushu Center, where she trained under legendary Grandmaster Hu Jianqiang, who was Jet Li's martial arts sidekick in several movies. Some highlights of her acting career include roles as featured ballet dancer on the show Glee and a featured student on the show Community. She performed motion-capture stunts for Game Night video game and performed at the People's Choice Awards in 2013 as a zombie dancer, interacting onstage with Kaley Cuoco.
Two of her most memorable live performances to date were at Universal Studios for a Chinese TV special and as part of a Kung-fu ensemble for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in front of 11'000 people.
Natalie is also talented stunt actor and uses her athletic background to perform fight choreography, sword play, rock climbing, wire work, high falls, car hits, stunt driving, and ninja warrior.
