| Natalie Portman  AKA Natalie Hershlag
Born: 9-Jun-1981
Birthplace: Jerusalem, Israel
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Black Swan Natalie Portman uses her grandmother's maiden name as her professional name, so that her family can retain a semblance of privacy. She was born in Jerusalem and moved to America at age three, living briefly in Washington D.C. and Connecticut before growing up in Long Island. She got into trouble as a young child at school for telling her classmates that her father -- a fertility expert -- made ladies pregnant for a living. She became a vegetarian at age eight, when she accompanied him to a medical conference and she saw a chicken used as a demonstration of laser surgery.
When she was 11, an agent spotted her in a pizza joint and asked if she would be interested in modeling. She did a Revlon commercial, then announced that what she really wanted was to be an actress. Six months later she was filming Léon, better known as The Professional (1994), starring Gary Oldman and Jean Reno. She sang in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, was President Jack Nicholson's daughter in Mars Attacks and portrayed Timothy Hutton's 13-year-old love interest in Ted Demme's Beautiful Girls (all 1996). Also in 1996, she played Anne Frank on Broadway. She originally turned down the role of Susan Sarandon's flighty daughter in Anywhere but Here (1999), because she felt too young to film a sex scene. Sarandon insisted that only Portman could play the role, so the sex scene was deleted. She also turned down the title role in the 1997 remake of Lolita. She played Queen Amidala in the three Star Wars prequels, while pursuing a degree in psychology at Harvard, and she was nominated for an Oscar for Mike Nichols' Closer (2004).
Father: Avner Hershlag (fertility specialist)
Mother: Shelley (artist)
Boyfriend: Moby (together 2000-02)
Boyfriend: Lukas Haas (actor, together 2001)
Boyfriend: Zach Braff (actor, together 2004)
Boyfriend: Gael Garcia Bernal (together 2003-04, 2007)
Boyfriend: Devendra Banhart (singer/songwriter, together 2008)
Husband: Benjamin Millepied (dancer/choreographer, m. 4-Aug-2012, one son, one daughter)
Son: Aleph Portman-Millepied (b. 14-Jun-2011)
Daughter: Amalia Millepied (b. 22-Feb-2017)
High School: Syosset High School, Syosset, NY (1999)
University: BS Psychology, Harvard University (2003)
Oscar for Best Actress 2011 for Black Swan
Golden Globe 2005 for Closer (supporting actress)
Golden Globe 2011 for Black Swan (best actress)
Endorsement of Christian Dior Couture (2010-)
Camp: Stagedoor Manor
Risk Factors: Vegetarian, Smoking, Marijuana, Yoga
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
A Tale of Love and Darkness (16-May-2015)
New York, I Love You (5-Feb-2009)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Avengers: Endgame (22-Apr-2019)
Vox Lux (4-Sep-2018)
Annihilation (13-Feb-2018)
Song to Song (10-Mar-2017)
Jackie (7-Sep-2016)
Jane Got a Gun (31-Dec-2015)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (16-May-2015)
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (25-Mar-2015)
Knight of Cups (8-Feb-2015)
Thor: The Dark World (30-Oct-2013)
Thor (21-Apr-2011)
Your Highness (8-Apr-2011) · Isabel
No Strings Attached (21-Jan-2011) · Emma
I'm Still Here (6-Sep-2010) · Herself
Black Swan (1-Sep-2010) · Nina Sayers
Hesher (22-Jan-2010) · Nicole
Brothers (3-Dec-2009) · Grace Cahill
The Other Woman (16-Sep-2009) · Emilia
New York, I Love You (5-Feb-2009) · Rifka
The Other Boleyn Girl (15-Feb-2008) · Anne Boleyn
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (15-Nov-2007)
The Darjeeling Limited (3-Sep-2007) · Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
My Blueberry Nights (16-May-2007) · Leslie
Goya's Ghosts (8-Nov-2006) · Ines
Paris, je t'aime (18-May-2006)
V for Vendetta (11-Dec-2005)
Free Zone (19-May-2005) · Rebecca
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (18-May-2005)
Closer (3-Dec-2004) · Alice
Garden State (16-Jan-2004) · Sam
Cold Mountain (25-Dec-2003)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (16-May-2002)
Zoolander (28-Sep-2001) · Herself
Where the Heart Is (28-Apr-2000) · Novalee Nation
Anywhere But Here (17-Sep-1999) · Ann August
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (19-May-1999)
Mars Attacks! (13-Dec-1996) · Taffy Dale
Everyone Says I Love You (6-Dec-1996)
Beautiful Girls (9-Feb-1996) · Marty
Heat (15-Dec-1995) · Lauren
Léon the Professional (14-Sep-1994) · Mathilda
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