Nathalie Pownall is a British actress. She grew up in Bristol and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre before moving to London to train professionally. She has appeared as a guest lead in BBC series Casualty, Doctors and ITV's Doc Martin with Martin Clunes. In 2008, she played Maia Sturn, the solo role in an online viral series 'Emergency Subnet' for Channel 4 to promote and launch the American Animated series Afterworld in the UK. She also played Timmy in British Horror Credo alongside, MyAnna Buring., Clayton Watson, Colin Salmon and Stephen Gately In 2006 she helped set up Tutuma, a charitable organization led by leading medical professionals and Actors, that ran theatre and dance workshops for orphans in Zimbabwe. The same year Tutuma was commissioned to perform Zimbabwe's first production of Closer by British Playwright Patrick Marber play at HIFA - Harare International Festival of the Arts.