Natalie Portman
09 June, 1981
| 1.60 m
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Biography
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Czarny łabędź (2010)).Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an American-born artist (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. Her parents are both of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Natalie's family left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to this day. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard University. She was discovered by an agent in a pizza parlor at the age of 11. She was pushed towards a career in modeling but she decided that she would rather pursue a career in acting. She was featured in many live performances, but she made her powerful film debut in the movie Leon zawodowiec (1994) (aka "Léon"). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Gorączka (1995), Piękne dziewczyny (1996), and Marsjanie atakują! (1996).It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel Gwiezdne wojny: Część I - Mroczne widmo (1999). She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas, Wszędzie, byle nie tu (1999) and Gdzie serce twoje (2000), followed by Bliżej (2004), for which she received an Oscar nomination. She reprised her role as Padme Amidala in the last two episodes of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: Gwiezdne wojny: Część II - Atak klonów (2002) and Gwiezdne wojny: Część III - Zemsta Sithów (2005). She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Czarny łabędź... show more
Movies
Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
The young apprentice of a magical, eccentric toy store owner learns to believe in herself, and in her friends, upon learning some grave news about the future.
A pregnant seventeen-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas have to offer, undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women.
A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.
The story of a woman dealing with her infant daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.
An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.
A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
A decade after the death of an American television star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.