Natalie Morales
Birthdate: Feb 15, 1985
Birthplace: Kendall, Florida, USA
Natalie Morales is one of a handful of comic female actors who have expanded their movie portfolio into directing, screenwriting and producing, but made her feature debut in a drama in a supporting role in director Oliver Stone’s long-awaited sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and Eli Wallach, premiering out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival and released by 20th Century Fox to a good $134.7 million return (against $70 million costs).
Morales was cast more characteristically in the rom-com Going the Distance (2010), which starred Drew Barrymore and Justin Long under Nanette Burstein’s direction and was released by Warner Bros. to a poor box office ($32 million). Morales co-starred in her first prominent screen role in director/writer/star Blayne Weaver’s comedy, 6 Month Rule (2011), with Martin Starr and John Michael Higgins, and released by Abramorama/Secret Identity Pictures after premiering at the Austin Film Festival.
Morales was cast as Rosie Casals in the historical sports comedy-drama, Battle of the Sexes (2017), starring Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Pullman and Sarah Silverman, under Valerie Faris’s and Jonathan Dayton’s direction, and which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures to a disappointing $18.6 million return.
Morales delivered a voice performance (as Miss Calleros) in the animated MCU-Sony Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), starring the voices of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Nicolas Cage and Liev Schreiber under the co-direction Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, produced and co-written by Phil Lord (with Rothman), and which grossed $394 million on a $90 million budget. Morales co-starred in the Michael Dowse-directed action comedy, Stuber (2019), alongside Kuwait Nanjani and Dave Bautista, premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a 20th Century Fox release returning $32 million.
Natalie Morales had a supporting role in director/writer/producer John Lee Hancock’s crime thriller, The Little Things (2021), starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto, earning disappointing results for Warner Bros. Morales made a major career shift with her debut as star/director/co-writer of the drama, Language Lessons (2021), with co-writer/co-star Mark Duplass, and which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and released by Shout! Studios.
Morales appeared in a supporting role in director/writer BenDavid Grabinski’s comedy thriller released by Saban Films, Happily (2021), with Joel McHale, Kerry Bishé and Stephen Root, followed by Morales co-starring with Jillian Bell in the sci-if comedy, I’m Totally Fine (2022), directed by Brandon Dermer and released by Decal, and Morales playing opposite co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman in director/co-writer Gene Stupnitsky’s sex comedy, No Hard Feelings (2023), co-starring Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick, and grossing a fair $87 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.
Natalie Morales co-starred with Sonequa Martin-Green, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris in co-writer/director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ semi-autobiographical comedy-drama, My Dead Friend Zoe (2025), with Gloria Reuben and Utkarsh Ambudkar, premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released wide by distributor Briarcliff Entertainment.
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Personal life
Natalie Morales was born and raised in Miami, Florida, by parents. sisters and brothers. Morales’s early education was at St. Agatha Catholic School and Southwest Miami Senior High School. Morales graduated high school and studied acting and theater at Miami Dade College and Florida International University. Morales’s height is 5’ 7”. Morales’s estimated net worth is $18 million.
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Previous (14)
- 2025 |
My Dead Friend Zoe
asZoe
Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.
- 2023 | If You Were the Last
- 2023 |
No Hard Feelings
asSara
On the brink of losing her home, Maddie finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.
- 2022 | I'm Totally Fine
- 2022 | I'm Totally Fine
- 2021 | Plan B
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
The Little Things
asDetective Jamie Estrada
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
asMiss Calleros
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
- 2017 |
Battle of the Sexes
asRosie Casals
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
- 2011 | 6 Month Rule
- 2010 | Going the Distance
Facts About Natalie Morales
Identity: Natalie Morales announced via social media in 2017 that she is queer.
Journalist: Morales considered journalism as a career in her high school years, and attended the University of Miami’s Dow Jones Minority High School Journalism Workshop.
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