Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman was
born in Jerusalem, Israel on June 9, 1981. She is an actress with
dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an
orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 action film Léon: The Professional, but mainstream
success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in
the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released
in 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology
while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
In 2001, Portman opened
in New York City's Public Theater production
of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In
2005, Portman won a Golden Globe
Award and received an Academy Awardnomination
for Best Supporting Actress for
her performance in the drama Closer.
She won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and a Saturn Award
for Best Actress for her starring role in V for Vendetta (2006). She played
leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006)
and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).
In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's
directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film
Festival's shorts competition in 2008. Portman directed a
segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Portman is also
known for her portrayal as Jane Foster, the love interest of Marvel superhero Thor in the film adaptation Thor (2011)
and its upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013).
In 2010, Portman
starred in the psychological thriller Black Swan.
Her performance received critical praise and earned her a second Golden Globe
Award, the Screen Actors
Guild Award, theBAFTA Award, the Broadcast
Film Critics Association Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2011.
She is the only child
of Shelley (nee Stevens), an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent,
and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli citizen who is a fertility specialist and
gynecologist. Portman's maternal ancestors were Jewish immigrants to
the United States, from Austria and Russia (her mother's family had changed
their surname from "Edelstein" to "Stevens"). Her
paternal grandparents were Jews who moved to Israel from Poland and Romania.
Her paternal grandfather, whose parents died at Auschwitz, was an economics professor in
Israel, and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a spy for British Intelligence during World War
II.
Portman's parents met
at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University, where her mother
was selling tickets. They corresponded after her father returned to Israel and
were married when her mother visited a few years later. In 1984, when Portman
was three years old, the family moved to the United States, where her father
received his medical training. Portman, a dual citizen of the United
States and Israel, has said that although she "really love the
States... my heart's in Jerusalem. That's where I feel at home."
Portman and her family
first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to Connecticut in
1988 and then lived in Jericho, New
York, on Long Island, in 1990.
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