As the spotlight shines on Cavill’s latest Hollywood achievement, attention also falls on Viscuso. The pair made their red carpet debut in 2022, and fans of the Witcher star quickly became curious about his partner, who had appeared on a famed MTV reality television show and had been embroiled in a blackface scandal in 2021.

So who is Henry Cavill’s girlfriend, Natalie Viscuso? Here’s what we know about the partner of Superman.

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Natalie Viscuso is a big-time Hollywood executive

According to her now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Viscuso, 34, previously worked as the vice-president of television and digital studios at Legendary Entertainment – the same studio that produced Cavill’s blockbusters Man of Steel (2013) and Enola Holmes (2020).

However, earlier this year in May, Viscuso switched gears and accepted a new job as the vice-president of TV at Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment, per Deadline. In her new role, she will oversee the company’s TV and digital studios and its long list of projects, such as HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood and Brujo, Showtime’s The Auteur and other projects for Hulu, Peacock and Apple.

She was very close with her late mum

In 2017, Viscuso shared a heartbreaking post about her late mum, Tammie Kay Baumann, who died after a battle with cancer.

Before her tragic death, Viscuso started a GoFundMe page in 2017 and explained her mother’s rare disease, epithelioid angiosarcoma. She said it was a “relentless” and “ferocious” battle, describing the disease as one of the most rare and destructive cancers known to man.

She wrote a sweet post about her mum a year later: “Three days, 30 days, 365 days … every day without my sweet little mum is just the same. I miss her every moment of every day, not just on this first anniversary of her death. Today I’m choosing to remember her in all of her incredible beauty, joy and radiance that she was so loved for.”

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Her dad owns a nightclub – but she had a humble beginning

Before she was in the global spotlight, Viscuso’s first encounter with fame was as a teenager. In 2005, she appeared on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 where she celebrated her US$450,000 birthday party and was seen living in a US$5 million mansion. But she was not always wealthy and actually had a modest beginning, as stated in British media.

“I came from the nothingness of Roswell, New Mexico. I lived with my aunt and uncle. Life was difficult. The whole town is only 20 miles (32km) long,” she explained in the episode. “Money really is not an object to me. I’m really spoiled. Sometimes I feel guilty for that, but I deserve everything that I have because I’ve always been just the nice girl, never the rich girl.”

In the reality show, we saw Viscuso throw an OTT birthday party that was attended by 1,000 guests. She also showed off her designer duds and her dad’s supercars afterwards. Her father is nightclub owner Mike Viscuso who – with Melissa, his fiancée at the time – “rescued” Natalie from Roswell, New Mexico, per British media.

Viscuso further explained her situation, saying, “She [Melissa] basically rescued me from there. This is just where I belong. We’re above high class now. We’re at the top.”

Per People, Viscuso attended the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts and was included in the dean’s list. She was also a member of the Sigma Alpha Lambda and Phi Sigma Theta national honour societies.

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That blackface scandal

At the drama’s peak, a petition was created to kick Viscuso’s beau off the production, though there were few signatories.

Viscuso has since apologised. She told British media that the tribe she was living with painted her skin “as part of an initiation ceremony” and “an acceptance into their culture”.

She is “endlessly proud” of Cavill

So, what do we know about Viscuso and Cavill’s relationship so far?

Although it’s unclear exactly when they started dating, the duo first sparked romance rumours in April 2021 when Cavill posted a photo on his Instagram of his “beautiful and brilliant love, Natalie” while they were playing chess. They were also spotted on a romantic walk in London just a few days before, per People.

Meanwhile, Viscuso wrote, “Just teaching my dear Henry how to play some chess … or … maybe he let me win?”

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However, the relationship confirmation was not taken well by Cavill’s gargantuan fan base, who went on a social media rampage after seeing the post. Some have called attention to the couple’s earlier photos together, which they say appear manipulated. Others speculate the duo is the face of an elaborate PR relationship.

The Black Adam actor has since addressed some of these comments on his Instagram, basically telling his fans to back off.

“I know it can be fun to speculate, to gossip and to dive into our own personal echo chambers on the internet, but your ‘passion’ is misplaced, and it causes harm to the people I care about most,” he said, adding, “I am very happy in love and in life. I’d be enormously grateful if you were happy with me.”

Compared to Cavill, Viscuso has fewer PDA posts on Instagram. She’s uploaded few photos of them together, including ones with Cavill and her pooch.

Each post Viscuso shares of her beau, however, appears to reaffirm her fondness for Cavill. In an Instagram post from last month, she said: “I don’t think I’ll ever get over seeing my man on the big screen – I am endlessly proud of him and am so excited about this film.”

Additional reporting by Audrey Chan