Natalie Brown is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 actress who grew up in Timmins, Ontario

Timmins, Ontario

Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...

. Brown landed her first print campaign for Bonne Bell

Bonne Bell

Bonne Bell is a cosmetics company which focuses on products targeted for young women. It was founded in 1927 in Lakewood, Ohio, by cosmetics salesman Jesse Bell, who named it after his daughter. Bell made his products on a hot plate in his basement and then sold his skin care products door to...

 when she was sixteen and went on to become the Heinz Ketchup girl. She modeled for Noxema and Max Factor

Max Factor

Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maksymilian Faktorowicz , Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for $500 million dollars...

. She studied fine arts at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 in Toronto. Brown played talent agent Sophie Parker on the television sitcom Sophie

Sophie (TV series)

Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...

, which ran for two seasons, and grieving mother Carol Haplin on six of the eight episodes of the ABC series Happy Town

Happy Town (TV series)

Happy Town is an American drama television series that premiered on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, and ended on June 16, 2010 on ABC. It was created by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg...

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