Biography Of Natalie Hershlag

Birth Name

Natalie Hershlag

Date of Birth

9 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel 

Nickname

Nat 

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Natalie Hershlag, known as Natalie Portman, born 9 June 1981 in Jerusalem in Israel, is an actress Israeli-American. She made ​​her film debut in Leon in Luc Besson, alongside Jean Reno in 1994. It achieves the status of international celebrity in 1999 with the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in which she played Padmé Amidala. It retains this role in episodes II and III, respectively, released in 2002 and 2005.

Natalie left Israel at the age of four years for Maryland, the United States because his father wants to continue his medical training and his mother wants to approach her ​​father with cancer. They move three years later to New Haven when his father completed his residency and must begin his postdoctoral.

They move again, this time where his father secured his position as doctor at Long Island in New York, Natalie was nine years old. There she goes to a school offering courses in both Jewish and secular until the age of thirteen years and then studied at Syosset High School. Natalie Portman, who already speaks fluent English and Hebrew, one learns French and a Japanese school

After high school, Natalie Portman pursued graduate studies in psychology and joined the Harvard University in September 1999. She is resident in the Lowell House, one of the twelve residences for students in first, second or third year. This is the first time she found so far from his parents, it is a liberating experience for her but she feels simultaneously like a spoiled child because she can not fend for themselves, unlike his fellow room.

Natalie Portman has toured with famous directors such as Woody Allen (Everyone Says I Love You), Michael Mann (Heat), Tim Burton (Mars Attacks!) or Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan). In 2005, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Closer, between consenting adults of Mike Nichols , this role also earned him a nomination at the Oscars.

She was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Actress in 2007 for his role in the dystopian V for Vendetta. She won a second Golden Globe in 2011 in the category Best Actress in a drama and then the Oscar for best actress this time for her performance in Black Swan.

In addition to his artistic activities, Natalie Portman is engaged with the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), an association for non-profit that provides solutions for microcredit in developing countries. In June 2003, she obtained a degree in psychology by four-year study at the Harvard University.

Natalie Portman started her career young (she is under twelve years during the shooting of Leon ) and at sixteen, she has appeared in six films. The characters she has performed as a child have in common is particularly mature for their age. Despite having played in several big budget movies, is best known for his dramatic roles and the correctness of his game.

She lives with dancer choreographer French of contemporary dance Millepied whom she met on the set of Black Swan, a film which he was the artistic director. They are the parents of a little boy, Aleph, born June 15, 2011

In 2004 and 2005, she traveled to Uganda, in Guatemala and Ecuador as an ambassador of hope for FINCA, an organization that promotes micro-credit to develop businesses owned by women in poor countries.

You can see Natalie Portman talk about microfinance in an interview during the concert series Live 8 broadcast in the program of PBS Foreign Exchange with the presenter Fareed Zakaria. It says it is "generally careful with these celebrities defending fashionable causes" but Natalie Portman "really knew his business.

In 2007, she traveled to Rwanda with Jack Hanna (director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium ) to film a documentary Gorillas on the Brink. In 2007, she launched her own line of shoes vegan. In the " Voices "of the show This Week with George Stephanopoulos in April 2007, she discusses her work with FINCA and how it can benefit women and their children in the Third World. During the fall of 2007, she visited several university campuses, including Harvard, the UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, New York and Columbia to explain to students the importance of microfinance and to encourage them to join the campaign of village banking to help families and communities out of poverty.