‏Natascha Berg‏

Nicole Natascha Berg Juarez (born May 2nd 1980 in Mannheim, Germany), born of Spanish and German descent, grew up in Viernheim. At the age of 14 she started to work as a model. In 2000 she was discovered by a talent scout of the Miss Germany Corporation, won the Miss Hessen and Miss Germany pageant and represented Germany at the Miss World 2000 pageant. Between 2003 and 2006 she presented a show for NBC Europe and the news for Rhein-Main TV, which won the Regio Star Award 2006. Between 2007 and 2009 she was a news-anchor and journalist for the Pro7 and the N24 news channel, presented her own daily entertainment and red carpet magazine at Premiere (Sky) and the travel magazine Discover Germany for DW-TV. In 2009 she moved to LA following her new-found passion: acting. The Italian-speaking, 6-lingual actress guest-starred in the mafia series Immigrants (2009) as Francesca Bertucci Palermo and has acted in several independent productions. Testing Life (2011) won 8 international awards along with her short film Shadows (2011) at the Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival in 2011. In Steven Soderbergh's Haywire (2011) a film about a black ops soldier (Gina Carano) on a revenge mission she played the role of Rodrigo's (Antonio Banderas) new wife.