She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel.
They moved to Toronto when she was age 2.
Actress Messing was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the daughter of Jewish American parents, Sandra née Simons , who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and Brian Messing, a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer.
Actress Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.
Began her career in musical theatre at the age of eight and continued through high school with the lead of Kim in Bye Bye Birdie.