Born Natalie Lymor Shlesinger in Brooklyn N.Y. to an Israeli father and a Egyptian/French mother. She spoke Hebrew at home, slang in the streets, and English in school. When she lost her father at the age eleven, Natalie the middle child of three, learned to juggle her school work with adult responsibilities. She worked her way through high school, while yearning for a creative outlet for which she had neither the time or financial resources. Then fate stepped in when her first film credit came ...