Natalie Martinez Biography

Fast Facts

• Volunteered in the maternity ward of a hospital for two years during high school
• Was applying to schools that would prepare her to be a neonatal nurse when her mother entered her into the modeling contest that sparked her career
• Made her screen acting debut as Michelle Miller on the TV series "Fashion House" in 2006
• Quote: "[on "Under the Dome"] "It's not necessarily about the dome as much as it is about what happens to everybody's lives once you get trapped․ You thought you had until tomorrow to do something and it turns out you don't․""
• Best known for her role as Gabby in "End of Watch" and as Case in 2008's "Death Race․"
• Was selected as the spokesmodel for Jennifer Lopez's fashion line, JLO, out of 6,000 women, even though she had no prior modeling experience
• Though she starred in "Death Race," a movie about deadly auto races, she didn't do any of her own driving as she didn't how to drive a stick shift
• Has appeared in a number of music videos including Self Scientific's "Live & Breathe," Justin Timberlake's "Senorita," Sean Paul's "We Be Burnin'" and Amr Diab's "Ne'ool Eih․"