Natalie Canerday

Natalie Canerday
Born	March 9, 1962 (1962-03-09) (age 49) Russellville, Arkansas, United States

Natalie Suzanne Canerday^[1] (born March 9, 1962) is an American actress.

Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. After attending Hendrix College (where she performed in plays with Herman's Head star William Ragsdale), she began her motion picture career as a production secretary for the television feature The Tuskegee Airmen, then made minor appearances in films such as Biloxi Blues and Walk the Line. Her most famous roles have been as protagonists' harried mothers in Sling Blade and October Sky. In 1996, she and others in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade cast were collectively nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture.

Canerday served as a judge for the 2006 George Lindsey/UNA Film Festival,^[2] and was recently cast in a national radio commercial.^[3] She has recently worked in the Oak Ridge Secret City Film Festival. It was known as the 7 day shoot-out, in which the contestants had only 7 days to make a 2–7 minute short-film. She worked along side inspired director Chase Hartsook, on his short film "Third Rate Romance", as the bartender. This event took place on October 1–8, 2009.

References

1. ^ Natalie Canerday Biography (1962–)
2. ^ "George Lindsey/UNA Film Festival to Screen Record Number of Entries"
3. ^ "Red Deluxe Gets Slingblade Star in the Studio for Yahoo!/Scripps"

External links

• Natalie Canerday at the Internet Movie Database
• Natalie Canerday at Moviefone

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Name	Canerday, Natalie
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Short description	American actor
Date of birth	March 9, 1962
Place of birth	Russellville, Arkansas
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