Occupation: Actress/Waitress

Relationships: Riley Weir

Appearances: Season 1

Who’d Play Her: Haley Richardson

The Actress Who Walked Away: Natalie Weir came to Los Angeles with her husband, Riley, as the two struggled to build acting careers together. While Riley’s fortunes gradually improved, Natalie found success more difficult to achieve, creating tension inside a marriage already strained by disappointment and financial pressure.

Her ambitions brought her into contact with photographer Lucas Briggs, whose professional interest turned into a dangerous obsession. After Lucas attempted to assault her, Riley’s best friend, Steve, became one of Natalie’s strongest sources of support. Their emotional closeness eventually developed into an affair.

The truth came out publicly at a party for the Miranda Blackthorne Agency, where Steve exposed both Natalie’s infidelity and Riley’s secret past as an escort. The revelations destroyed the marriage and sent all three lives in different directions.

Natalie moved in with Steve, but the relationship quickly lost its appeal. She found him increasingly immature and controlling, and their romance finally collapsed after she discovered him involved in a drug-fueled threesome with Nico Bravetti and another woman at Corso.

By then, Natalie had begun recognizing that she had never completely stopped loving Riley. Even so, she believed too much damage had been done for them to rebuild their marriage. Rather than continue repeating the same painful cycle, she chose to leave Los Angeles and return to Minnesota.

Before departing, Natalie left Riley a farewell letter expressing the feelings she had been unable to resolve in person. She walked away from both the career she had pursued and the relationships that had defined her time in Hollywood, hoping distance might provide the fresh start the city never had.