Natasha Alam (

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: Наталья Анатольевна Шиманчук; born Natalia Anatolievna Shimanchuk, born March 10, 1973) is an

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i–American

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and

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. Alam has starred on ''

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'' and been a cover model for ''

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''.

Early life

Natasha Alam was born and raised in

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in a

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n family. She attended school with the aim of becoming a clothing designer. She attended the

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for aviation school. Modeling at school led to modeling at events and eventually moving to Moscow, where she signed with an agency. An Italian modeling agency later signed her, and she moved to Italy.

Career

Her first acting role was on the television show '' Fastlane'' (2002). She went on to appear on television shows including '' CSI'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' American Heiress''. She also played the recurring role of Ava, a Forrester model, in ''

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'' from 2004 to 2007. Films she has appeared in include the 2007 horror movie ''

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'' and the 2008 comedy '' The Women''. In 2010, she appeared in the third season of ''

'' as Yvetta, an exotic dancer at Fangtasia, from Estonia. In July of that year, she appeared on the cover, and in the pictorial, of ''

''. The following year, she shot an anti-bullying film with Joe Reitman, and that August. 27 took part in Rock the Mansion, a fashion show for an anti-bullying campaign, at the

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Personal life

Sometime after moving to Italy, Alam met

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prince Amir Ebrahim Pahlavi Alam and moved with him to New York City. The couple broke up, then reunited, married in 1998, and moved to London, where she began taking acting lessons. Alam said in 2001 that she then "ran away to Los Angeles because I wanted to act." In 2001, her husband joined her, but they divorced in 2004. She and her partner, Joe Campana had a daughter, Valentina, in 2009.

Filmography

Film

TV Series

References

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