Nathalie Kelley

Nathalie Kelley is a Peruvian Australian actress. She is best known for her debut role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift. Kelley later had supporting roles on television, include Dani Alvarez in ABC procedural Body of Proof , and Grace in the Lifetime dark comedydrama UnREAL .

Nathalie Kelley was born in Lima, Peru, to a Peruvian mother and an Argentine father. She moved to Sydney when she wasyears old. From a young age, she dreamed about being an actress. She attended North Sydney Girls High School on Sydneys North Shore. When she wasshe became a salsa dancer, which helped her get the money to finish her education. The Miss Latin America competition also earned her a muchneeded 1,000, before 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 at the University of New South Wales. She volunteered with Indigenous Australian youth in the innercity suburb of Redfern before moving to Los Angeles and eventually becoming a film actress.

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