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Nathalie Emmanuel, 35, played Missandrei in “Game of Thrones” from 2013 to 2019. The actress was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, United Kingdom to a Saint Lucian-English father and a Dominican mother.

Nathalie Emmanuel as vegan

Emmanuel is very conscious about what she eats. It started about 10 years ago when she was in Los Angeles, California, United States for work.

At the time, a friend studying holistic nutrition told Emmanuel about the link between diet and disease. The English actress started to eat vegan after her friend explained to her its benefits.

“My family is Caribbean and I wanted to make plant-based eating work and still feel a connection to my cultural food,” Emmanuel told Only Natural Diamonds. “I got into Google and found there’s a lot of vegan food in the Rastafarian religion. All this stuff came up with Ital and its mentality around food and health. The way they eat from the earth, it’s very unprocessed and organic.”

When it comes to Emmanuel’s decision to eat vegan, her family was very supportive. Her mother is also vegan now.

Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero

Emmanuel plays Julia Cicero in “Megalopolis”. The character is a pill-popping party girl.

Julia’s father Franklyn Cicero is played by Giancarlo Esposito. Franklyn is the mayor of a decaying metropolis called New Rome.

Among Emmanuel and Esposito’s “Megalopolis” co-stars are Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Balthazar Getty and Dustin Hoffman. Also in the cast are Sonia Ammar, Chloe Fineman, Madeleine Gardella, Bailey Ives, Isabelle Kusman, Romy Mars, James Remar, Haley Sims and D.B. Sweeney.

Driver plays a futuristic architect named Cesar Catilina, who serves as New Tome’s design authority chairman. LaBeouf plays Cesar’s cousin Clodio Pulcher, a degenerate dandy.

Plaza’s character Wow Platinum is a television presenter specializing in financial news. Hoffman plays the mayor’s fixer named Nush “The Fixer” Berman.

Written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, “Megalopolis” was filmed from November 2022 to March 2023. It premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 16, 2024.