Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation: Producer,
Director, Actress
Story
Natalie Portman is one of those pretty faces that is, well, more than a pretty face. Talented, civically-minded, undeniably intelligent, and sophisticated beyond her years, Portman has been dubbed the “new Audrey Hepburn.”
Portman was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to Avner and Shelley Hershlag. Her father, a fertility doctor, and her mother, an artist, moved from Israel when their daughter was three to Washington D.C., and then later, New York. At the age of 11, she was discovered by an agent at a pizza parlor. Initially, she was pushed into modeling. However, strong-willed and independently-minded even then, Portman decided to pursue acting.
Her debut performance came in the movie Leon in 1994. However, this role, which some felt was too “Lolita”-like in its tone, caused Portman to later refuse roles that were too sexually-oriented or that required nudity. In 1997, she did in fact turn down a role in the movie Lolita because of her strong feelings against youth playing overtly sexual roles in films. Similarly, she turned down the role of “Juliet” in the famous 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet because of the age difference between herself and Leonardo DiCaprio. In Anywhere But Here, Portman turned down the role of Ann August because of a nude scene with Corbin Allred; Susan Sarandon vouched for the necessity of Portman as her co-star and the scene was rewritten.
A straight-“A” student all through high school, Portman now studies at Harvard. She likes math, due to its clear-cut system of solving problems. She speaks five languages fluently—Hebrew, English, French, German, and Japanese. Other talents include playing the piano and ballet. One of her favorite authors is Dave Eggers. She aspires to follow in her father’s footsteps and go into the medical field.
Interestingly, Portman has had several music-related tributes to her. She has had songs named after her by bands TeamSleep and Ozma. She also has CD recorded for charity bearing her name called Love: A Tribute to Natalie Portman.
Her most famous role was perhaps Queen Amidala in Star Wars Trilogy. While these movies perhaps portray Portman’s sense of fun and her diversity as an actress, movies such as Garden State are better suited to Portman’s arena. Portman has the elegance of royalty, but her acting talent makes her suited to roles in which she plays characters with likeable flaws. It’s easy to see Portman as a woman without flaws, but more “human” roles bring her closer to earth and to fans’ hearts.
Producer
2011 No Strings Attached2010 Hesher
2009 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
2006 Saturday Night Live
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1994 Léon
2009 New York, I Love You
2009 Eve
2009 New York, I Love You
2009 Eve
2009 I'm Still Here
2009 Plan B
2007 Silenci
2005 The Making of 'Heat'
2011 Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards
2011 The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards
2011 Cinema 3
2011 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2011 Made in Hollywood
2011 Breakfast
2011 The 7PM Project
2011 Conan
2011 The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
2011 Entertainers with Byron Allen
2011 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2011 Six O'Clock News
2011 The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards
2011 The Charlie Rose Show
2011 Late Show with David Letterman
2011 I'm Still Here
2010 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols
2010 Entertainment Tonight
2010 Jim Sheridan: Film and Family
2010 Re-Made in the USA: How Brodre Became Brothers
2010 In Search of Ted Demme
2010 The View
2009 Top Chef
2009 Milos Forman: Co te nezabije...
2009 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2009 A Powerful Noise Live
2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards
2009 In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber
2008 Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Speak Out
2008 Project Runway
2008 Cartelera
2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2008 Today
2003 Cartaz Cultural
2007 Saving a Species: Gorillas on the Brink
2007 Julia Roberts: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2007 Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
2006 Space Top 10 Countdown
2006 Movie Rush
2006 Designing the Near Future
2006 Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2006 Freedom! Forever!: Making 'V for Vendetta'
2006 Armenian Genocide
2006 Getaway
2006 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006 The Daily Show
2006 Film '72
2006 Corazón de...
2006 Saturday Night Live
2006 The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Live 8
2005 Magacine
2005 Caiga quien caiga
2005 Comme au cinéma
2005 The 77th Annual Academy Awards
2005 The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope
2005 Natalie Portman: Starting Young
2005 10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back
2004 The Making of 'Garden State'
2004 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2004 This Morning
2004 Inside the Actors Studio
2004 The Oprah Winfrey Show
2004 Hitler's Pawn: The Margaret Lambert Story
2004 Anatomy of a Scene
2003 Good Morning America
2003 A Journey to 'Cold Mountain'
2003 Nicole Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2003 Sesame Street
2002 Rank
2002 2002 MTV Movie Awards
2002 The Early Show
2002 Troldspejlet
2002 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
2002 Intimate Portrait
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 The Concert for New York City
2001 Zoolander
2001 The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
2000 Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto
2000 The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1999 Mundo VIP
1999 The Stars of 'Star Wars': Interviews from the Cast
1996 Showbiz Today
1996 1996 MTV Movie Awards
1994 HBO First Look
2011 Breakfast
2009 España, plató de cine
2009 Filmania: Eiga no tatsujin
2009 Almost Famous II
2006 Headline News
2005 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies
2005 Silenci?
2005 50 Cutest Child Stars: All Grown Up
2005 Biography
2005 Cinema mil
2005 Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
2004 Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
Director
2009 New York, I Love You2009 Eve
2009 New York, I Love You
2009 Eve
2009 I'm Still Here
2009 Plan B
2007 Silenci
2005 The Making of 'Heat'
2011 Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards
2011 The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards
2011 Cinema 3
2011 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2011 Made in Hollywood
2011 Breakfast
2011 The 7PM Project
2011 Conan
2011 The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
2011 Entertainers with Byron Allen
2011 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2011 Six O'Clock News
2011 The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards
2011 The Charlie Rose Show
2011 Late Show with David Letterman
2011 I'm Still Here
2010 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols
2010 Entertainment Tonight
2010 Jim Sheridan: Film and Family
2010 Re-Made in the USA: How Brodre Became Brothers
2010 In Search of Ted Demme
2010 The View
2009 Top Chef
2009 Milos Forman: Co te nezabije...
2009 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2009 A Powerful Noise Live
2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards
2009 In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber
2008 Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Speak Out
2008 Project Runway
2008 Cartelera
2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2008 Today
2003 Cartaz Cultural
2007 Saving a Species: Gorillas on the Brink
2007 Julia Roberts: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2007 Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
2006 Space Top 10 Countdown
2006 Movie Rush
2006 Designing the Near Future
2006 Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2006 Freedom! Forever!: Making 'V for Vendetta'
2006 Armenian Genocide
2006 Getaway
2006 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006 The Daily Show
2006 Film '72
2006 Corazón de...
2006 Saturday Night Live
2006 The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Live 8
2005 Magacine
2005 Caiga quien caiga
2005 Comme au cinéma
2005 The 77th Annual Academy Awards
2005 The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope
2005 Natalie Portman: Starting Young
2005 10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back
2004 The Making of 'Garden State'
2004 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2004 This Morning
2004 Inside the Actors Studio
2004 The Oprah Winfrey Show
2004 Hitler's Pawn: The Margaret Lambert Story
2004 Anatomy of a Scene
2003 Good Morning America
2003 A Journey to 'Cold Mountain'
2003 Nicole Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2003 Sesame Street
2002 Rank
2002 2002 MTV Movie Awards
2002 The Early Show
2002 Troldspejlet
2002 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
2002 Intimate Portrait
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 The Concert for New York City
2001 Zoolander
2001 The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
2000 Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto
2000 The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1999 Mundo VIP
1999 The Stars of 'Star Wars': Interviews from the Cast
1996 Showbiz Today
1996 1996 MTV Movie Awards
1994 HBO First Look
2011 Breakfast
2009 España, plató de cine
2009 Filmania: Eiga no tatsujin
2009 Almost Famous II
2006 Headline News
2005 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies
2005 Silenci?
2005 50 Cutest Child Stars: All Grown Up
2005 Biography
2005 Cinema mil
2005 Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
2004 Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
Actress
2011 Your Highness
2011 No Strings Attached
2010 Black Swan
2010 Hesher
2010 Brothers
2009 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
2009 New York, I Love You
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl
2007 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007 Hotel Chevalier
2007 The Darjeeling Limited
2007 My Blueberry Nights
2007 The Simpsons
2006 Goya's Ghosts
2006 Paris, je t'aime
2006 V for Vendetta
2005 Free Zone
2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 Domino One
2005 Closer
2004 True
2004 Garden State
2004 Sesame Street
2003 Cold Mountain
2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2000 Where the Heart Is
1999 Anywhere But Here
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1996 Mars Attacks!
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1996 Beautiful Girls
1995 Heat
1994 Léon
1994 Developing
2011 No Strings Attached
2010 Hesher
2009 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
2006 Saturday Night Live
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1994 Léon
2009 New York, I Love You
2009 Eve
2009 New York, I Love You
2009 Eve
2009 I'm Still Here
2009 Plan B
2007 Silenci
2005 The Making of 'Heat'
2011 Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards
2011 The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards
2011 Cinema 3
2011 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2011 Made in Hollywood
2011 Breakfast
2011 The 7PM Project
2011 Conan
2011 The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
2011 Entertainers with Byron Allen
2011 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2011 Six O'Clock News
2011 The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards
2011 The Charlie Rose Show
2011 Late Show with David Letterman
2011 I'm Still Here
2010 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols
2010 Entertainment Tonight
2010 Jim Sheridan: Film and Family
2010 Re-Made in the USA: How Brodre Became Brothers
2010 In Search of Ted Demme
2010 The View
2009 Top Chef
2009 Milos Forman: Co te nezabije...
2009 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2009 A Powerful Noise Live
2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards
2009 In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber
2008 Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Speak Out
2008 Project Runway
2008 Cartelera
2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2008 Today
2003 Cartaz Cultural
2007 Saving a Species: Gorillas on the Brink
2007 Julia Roberts: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2007 Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
2006 Space Top 10 Countdown
2006 Movie Rush
2006 Designing the Near Future
2006 Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2006 Freedom! Forever!: Making 'V for Vendetta'
2006 Armenian Genocide
2006 Getaway
2006 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006 The Daily Show
2006 Film '72
2006 Corazón de...
2006 Saturday Night Live
2006 The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Live 8
2005 Magacine
2005 Caiga quien caiga
2005 Comme au cinéma
2005 The 77th Annual Academy Awards
2005 The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005 Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope
2005 Natalie Portman: Starting Young
2005 10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back
2004 The Making of 'Garden State'
2004 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2004 This Morning
2004 Inside the Actors Studio
2004 The Oprah Winfrey Show
2004 Hitler's Pawn: The Margaret Lambert Story
2004 Anatomy of a Scene
2003 Good Morning America
2003 A Journey to 'Cold Mountain'
2003 Nicole Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute
2003 Sesame Street
2002 Rank
2002 2002 MTV Movie Awards
2002 The Early Show
2002 Troldspejlet
2002 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
2002 Intimate Portrait
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 The Concert for New York City
2001 Zoolander
2001 The Beginning: Making 'Episode I'
2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
2000 Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto
2000 The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1999 Mundo VIP
1999 The Stars of 'Star Wars': Interviews from the Cast
1996 Showbiz Today
1996 1996 MTV Movie Awards
1994 HBO First Look
2011 Breakfast
2009 España, plató de cine
2009 Filmania: Eiga no tatsujin
2009
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