Natalie Morales

Actor, Producer, Director

Birthdate: February 15, 1985 (41 Years Old)

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 20^th 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 Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista, premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a 20^th 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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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.

Known For

Parks and Recreation

Lucy Santo Domingo (2009)

Battle of the Sexes

Rosie Casals (2017)

Abby's

Abby (2019)

Girls

Clementine Barrios (2012)

Natalie Morales Movies

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2025 |
My Dead Friend Zoe
My Dead Friend Zoe
2025
Comedy, Drama, War
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.
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asZoe
2023 |
No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings
2023
Comedy, Romance
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.
asSara
2021 |
The Little Things
The Little Things
2021
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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.
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asDetective Jamie Estrada
2021 |
Language Lessons
Language Lessons
2021
Comedy, Drama
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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asCariño
2021 |
Happily
Happily
2021
Comedy, Crime, Romance
A dark romantic comedy. Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.
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2019 |
Stuber
Stuber
2019
Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure.
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asNicole
2018 |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Brooklyn teenager unexpectedly becomes Spider-Man and discovers he’s not the only one. Pulled into a collapsing multiverse, he must team up with alternate versions of the hero to stop a catastrophic threat. What begins as chaos turns into a powerful journey about identity, responsibility, and learning to believe you’re enough.
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asMiss Calleros
2017 |
Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes
2017
Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
asRosie Casals

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2021 |
Language Lessons
Language Lessons
2021
Comedy, Drama
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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2021 |
Language Lessons
Language Lessons
2021
Comedy, Drama
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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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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