how come she's not an A-list celebrity?

yeah was wondering the same myself

"gonna eat your brains to gain your knowledge"

It all really goes down to career decisions, she's made some pretty good ones but her best work is little known and her best known work is considered sub-par or mediocre by the general public. There's still time though, but it would have to be with some super director though.

I have an unusual set of skills...

Because:

1) She's appeared in too many crap movies.
2) She's over 35/pushing 40.
3) She's become "associated" with crap/Direct-to-DVD movies, just like Jean-Claude Van Dammit.

Hey, I LIKE Ms. Henstridge...but Pam Grier was FANTASTIC in "Jackie Brown," critics raved, but Hollywood did not know what to do with a black actress of her age, so Grier went to TV ("The L Word").

as weird as this may sound... near flawless people have trouble getting work due to just that...they're hard to relate to. its hard to cast someone like her in anything other than 'the perect woman'. shes just typically not the person envisioned in every writer or casting directors mind.

but to a larger degree, yes, her poor choices have kind of held her back sort of speak.


side note: she also has sort of a manly voice. really listen to it next time u watch something of hers.

Natasha H. herself admits to turning down movie roles that became blockbuster hits. These two hit movies she turned down, "Independance Day" and "Men In Black", would have no doubt propelled her Hollywood career much further. But Natasha H. hit bad luck, that is, her acting roles were in unsuccessful movies or limited release movies or direct-to-video. She realized her mistake in declining science fiction movies and starred in John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars", where Natasha did a good job, but the movie flopped at the box office. Lucky to have her own television show, "She Spies" in 2002, it lasted only two seasons. The problem for Natasha H. was, time. She was running out of it because soon she was ten years old than her younger more beautiful self in 1993. The acting gigs started thinning out.

Years ago some excited imdb poster claimed to have run across Natasha H., sitting outside some talent director's office in Hollywood, filling out what may have been an acting role application. This is a far come-down from her A list days and strong, top of the B list days when agents would have come to her or the deal would have been all discussed and finalized on the telephone. I don't take any joy out of it. I wish Natasha H. could have done much, much better in Hollywood.