Natalie Portman is a film actress, producer, and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Portman made her feature film debut as Mathilda, the young protégée of a hitman, in Léon: The Professional . While still in high school, she gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and received critical acclaim for playing a precocious teenager in the drama Anywhere but Here . From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University for a bachelor's degree in psychology. She continued acting while at university, starring in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull and the sequel Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones . In 2004, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in Closer.
The Star Wars prequel trilogy concluded with Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , following which Portman portrayed a wide variety of roles. She played Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta , Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl , and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Portman went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached and featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor and Thor: The Dark World . For portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie , Portman received her third Oscar nomination.
Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness . In 2008, she served as the youngest jury member of the Cannes Film Festival. Portman is vocal about the politics of America and Israel, and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. She is married to the dancer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children.
“You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.”
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
Ingenue interview, March 1996 by Ted Demme, Ingrid Sischy http://www.natalieportman.com/articles/nparticles_en.php?viewarticle=1&article_number=20
Natalie Portman, quoted in The Phantom Menace "Production Notes". I wear a diaper in lucy in the sky
On vegetarianism. Interview with The New Zealand Herald (5 May 2011), quoted in “Natalie Portman: 'Eating For Me Is How You Proclaim Your Beliefs'”, in ecorazzi.com http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/05/05/natalie-portman-my-beliefs-are-reflected-in-how-i-eat/.
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
On allegations of racism in Israel
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
Abigail A. Baird NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?_r=0 (1 March 2011)
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Inside the Actor's Studio interview by James Lipton, New School University, November 21, 2004 http://www.natalieportman.com/npcom.php?page_number=24&limit=100&view=
As quoted by Abigail A. Baird NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?_r=0
“I’d like it if people thought I was Jewish-looking.”
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 6 July 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=44797&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=Natalie%20Portman&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
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