The Facts of Life/Natalie Green

Natalie Letisha Sage Green
The Facts of Life
Actor	Mindy Cohn
First Appearance	1x01- Rough Housing
Last Appearance	The Facts of Life Reunion
Series Billing	Billed
Episode Count	200

Natalie Green is a fictional character from the sitcom The Facts of Life. She was portrayed by actress Mindy Cohn throughout the series run and in the 2001 reunion movie.

Basic Information

"I'd rather be a happy Magic Marker than a skinny pencil," says chubby Natalie— and she means it. Even though she did not fit the mold of a traditional beauty, Natalie was involved in many storylines regarding sex. In an early episode, she dated a boy who spread a rumor that Natalie was easy. In another episode, whilst coming home from a costume party she was nearly the victim of a sexual assault. Toward the end of the series in that controversial episode, "The First Time", she became the first of the girls to have sex when she slept with her boyfriend Snake on their one-year anniversary.

Natalie was a budding writer and wrote for the Eastland School newspaper. She graduated Eastland in 1985. However, she doesn't go to college immediately and takes a year off to travel across the country on a bus. Her family and friends were initially dismayed, because she turned down an admission offer from Princeton University to go "Greyhound." After a year, Natalie decides to attend Langley College, and became a reporter for the local newspaper in Peekskill. She went to New York City towards the end of the series and decided to stay and pursue her writing career. On the episode in which Natalie visits the SOHO loft she will eventually call home, her future roommates include Richard Grieco and David Spade. (The episode, which aired in 1988, was originally set up for Mindy Cohn to transition into a spinoff series, but the plans never materialized). In the TV-movie, The Facts of Life Reunion, she is with her boyfriend and has a run-in with her ex. Her current boyfriend then proposes to her by phone.

Natalie was the only one of the girls who was adopted. In one episode, Blair successfully tracked down Natalie's birth mother, but Natalie — who realized that her adoptive parents were her true parents, even though they weren't biologically related to her — refused to answer the phone and hear the results of the search, instead inviting her friends to taste the cake "my mother made." However, thanks in part to an argument with her adoptive mother during a 1982 episode, the subject arose once again, and it would be her adoptive mother who would finally reveal to Natalie who her biological mother was. Natalie tracked her down and met her, but as before, she still considered the mother who had raised her, her true mother, even after sharing with her the meeting she had with her biological mother.