NATALIE MENDOZA plays Juno. Juno is the leader of the trip, tough, compelling and always looking for adventure. She is Sarah’s best and oldest friend, but incapable of dealing with her friend’s grief, and secretly harboring grief and guilt of her own, she has not seen Sarah for almost a year.
Juno is determined that the trip will be special and the start of happier times for Sarah, but it is exactly these good intentions which lead the girls to their inevitable doom. Natalie says of Juno: “Juno is a mass of contradictions. She’s fearless, but she’s completely cowardly as well. She has this ability to focus really well, but then when it comes to anything emotional, she loses it. Typically, she decides that she’s going to make everything better in the group by taking them on the adventure of a lifetime. She thinks it’s an amazing gift that she’s giving to her friends, but of course she hasn’t thought it through. Her intentions are always good, she’s got this big heart, but she never thinks anything through to the end. And she pays for it basically. She pays for it big time. “
Natalie Mendoza has firmly established herself as a versatile performer. In addition to an impressive list of acting credits in film, television and theatre, Mendoza is also an accomplished singer, dancer and writer.
Born in Honk Kong, Natalie moved to Australia at a young age and was soon performing and traveling with her siblings and her jazz musician father and actress/dancer mother.
She landed her first professional role at 15 in the hit musical “Cats” which toured Australia and Asia. She followed this with parts in “Miss Saigon” alongside her sister Rebecca, “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” “Sweet Charity” and “Les Miserables.”
Natalie’s natural musical ability led to a recording contract and her first single, “On My Own.” She and Rebecca soon joined forces as “Jackson Mendoza” and recorded two singles, “Ordinary Girl” and “Venus and Mars.” They also performed in concert with Mel C.
As a solo artist, Natalie has performed with David Campbell and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Television includes guest roles in series such as “Wildside,” “Fearless,” and “Farscape,” plus a regular role in the syndicated series “Beastmaster.” She also appeared in the “South Pacific” starring Glenn Close. Natalie is about the start filming as a series regular in “Hotel Babylon” for BBC1.
She recently appeared in the Michael Winterbottom feature film “Code 46” and Miramax’s “The Great Raid,” starring Benjamin Bratt. Her other film credits include Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge,” “Muggers” and “Horseplay.”
2003 was another busy and diverse year for Natalie. She wrote and recorded a solo album as well as studied acting at Bristol’s prestigious Old Vic theatre in the UK. She also returned to Australia to appear in the Melbourne Theatre Company production “Coup d’Etat” with Tom Long.
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