Natalie J. Robb is a Scottish
actress born
in Bellshill
, Glasgow
on December 3, 1974.
Personal life
Born Natalie Joy Robb, she is the youngest of three children.
As a
child, Natalie attended weekend drama groups in Glasgow, where she
was discovered by director Alan Macmillan, later going to the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on Saturdays. She made
her screen debut as a nine-year-old starring in an
STV document drama with
veteran
Scots star
Tom Conti. At 13, she was
awarded the
BBC Young Entertainer of the Year
award on kids' TV show,
Going Live! At
age fourteen, she got the role of Trish McDonald in Scottish Soap,
Take the High Road, which
launched her TV career, with
Taggart,
Sunburn,
Dream Team,
Doctors and
The
Bill following respectively.
Natalie’s parents split up when she was
fifteen and she rarely talks to her father but remains close to her
mother, who lives in Spain
.
Natalie plans to set up her own website and work on a long-term
goal of making a film telling the story of her mother's life.
Natalie was once in a band called The Kinky People and also sang 'I
Will Be There' by a group called Absolutely. In 1997, she released
a single with dance group Partizan called Keep Your Love. Both
videos can be found on
YouTube.
Career
Robb is best known for her roles in
continuing dramas, initially playing Trish
McDonald in
Take the High Road
before spending one season in the
Sky One
series
Dream Team. She then spent three
years in the
BBC One daytime soap
Doctors before leaving for her most
high profile role of an undercover
journalist posing as a
police officer PC Andrea
Dunbar in
The Bill.
Her character was
based on the BBC's Secret Policeman, Mark
Daly, who infiltrated Greater Manchester
Police and exposed shocking
racism among officers. Robb named Daly
as a huge influence on her, and says she was thrilled to meet him
at
BAFTAs, where he picked up a gong for his
work. Robb appeared
EastEnders in July
2006 as
Gemma Clewes, the
mistress of
Max
Branning. Later that year she appeared in
New Tricks. In March 2007, she
appeared in a TV show called 'Kitchen' with
Eddie Izzard and in April played the part of
museum curator Carla in
Sea of Souls. In July 2008, she appeared in
The Shepherd: Border
Patrol with
Jean Claude Van
Damme, where she played Ramona Garcia, a no nonsense Captain of
Border Patrol. In 2009, she played the part of a counselor in
BBC1 drama
Waterloo
Road.
Later in 2009, it was announced that Robb had
joined the cast of Emmerdale
as part of a new farming family, the
Bartons. She plays mother-of-three
Moira Barton, alongside
James Thornton,
Adam Thomas,
Sophie
Powles and
Grace Cassidy.
She made
her Emmerdale debut on July 17, 2009.
Filmography
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