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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. McElhone was born
Natascha Taylor in Surrey, to Irish parents who were both journalists.
She took the maiden name of her mother, Noreen, as her stage name.
McElhone has a script writer brother Damon who lives in Los Angeles, and
two half brothers Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm. Her
parents separated when she was two and her Irish mother subsequently
moved the family to Brighton and later married journalist and columnist
Roy Greenslade. She and her family now live in Ireland and Brighton.
McElhone took lessons in Irish dancing from ages six to twelve, and was
educated at St. Mary's Hall School for Girls, an independent boarding
school in Brighton, East Sussex, after which she graduated from the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1993.
