Nat Tena

In this episode we talk to our brilliant friend Nat Tena, who you might know better as Nymphadora Tonks.

Nat landed her first film role aged sixteen, when she starred alongside Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult in About a Boy. Since then she’s been in many of our favourite films and TV shows, from Game of Thrones to The Mandalorian. When she’s not acting she’s singing and playing the accordion in gypsy ska band Molotov Jukebox.

We find out how smoking round the back of the bike sheds landed Nat her first film role, why she thought Dumbledore was a country and what bad habit has her scaring fellow hotel guests.

In 2020 Nat walked the 720km Camino De Santiago trail with her best friend to raise money for The Orchid Project, an amazing charity that is fighting to put an end to female genital cutting. To support the charity and find out more go to theorchidproject.org

Nat’s ‘3am Questions’:

Favourite book - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Favourite song - The Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson

Favourite film - Strictly Ballroom

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Normal Not Normal is a Stabl production.

Produced by Alice Homewood.

YouTube version edited by Oliver and James Phelps.

Music: 'Not Normal' by Sebastian Forslund and 'Bobby Swing' by The Bladwerk Band

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