Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett (born May 14, 1973 in Mississauga) is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the girl group All Saints. During All Saints' five years of inactivity, she was a member of Appleton with her younger sister Nicole.

Biography

In addition to Nicole, Natalie has two older sisters, Lori and Lee. Natalie was born in Mississauga, Ontario to her British mother Mary and Canadian Jewish father, Kenbut. While growing up she lived in Toronto, New York City, and London.

She attended high school in Ellenville, New York and eventually quit to sing at a Borscht Belt country club at age fifteen. She moved back to New York City and, in 1990, back again to Camden, England, where she met Carl Robinson (born c.1967), a stripper with The Dreamboys whom she met when seeing them perform on a night out in London when she was 17, She moved in with him three months later. On May 19, 1992, their daughter Rachel was born.

She married Robinson in New York in 1993 and they divorced in 1995. On June 6, 2002 Appleton married Liam Howlett of The Prodigy. In addition to Appleton's daughter from her first marriage, the couple have one child, Ace Billy Howlett (March 2, 2004).