Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman

At the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, presenting V for Vendetta.
Born Natalie Hershlag
(Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג‎)
June 9, 1981 (1981-06-09) (age 27)
Jerusalem, Israel
Years active 1994–present

Natalie Portman (Hebrew: נטלי פורטמן‎; born June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-American actress. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting. Her first role came in the 1994 independent film Leon: The Professional, and she became well known when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.[1] In 2005, Portman received a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress in the drama Closer.

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Biography

Early life

Portman was born Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג‎) in Jerusalem, Israel.[2][3] Her father, Avner Hershlag, is an Israeli doctor specializing in fertility and reproduction (reproductive endocrinology).[4][5] Her mother, Shelley Stevens, is an American homemaker who now works as her agent.[4] Portman's maternal ancestors were Jews from Austria and Russia and her paternal ancestors were Jews who immigrated to Israel from Poland and Romania. Her paternal grandfather's parents died in Auschwitz and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a spy for the British during World War II.[6]

Portman's parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University where her mother was selling tickets. Her father returned to Israel, but the two corresponded and were married when her mother visited Israel a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the family moved from Israel to the United States, where her father pursued his medical training. The family first lived in Washington, D.C., where she attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, but relocated to Connecticut in 1988, and then settled permanently in Long Island, New York, in 1990.[1] Portman has said that although she "really love[s] the States... my heart's in Jerusalem. That's where I feel at home."[6] She is an only child and very close to her parents,[1] who are often seen with her at her film premieres.

Education

Portman was a straight-A student.[7] "I'd rather be smart than be a movie star,"[8] she told an interviewer. Although she says her family was not religious,[9] she attended a Jewish elementary school, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Glen Cove, New York. She graduated from a public high school, Syosset High School.[1] Portman reportedly skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I so she could study for her high school final exams.[10]

In June 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in psychology. While attending Harvard, she was a resident of the Lowell House.[11] Portman pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004.[9] At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz's research assistant (he thanks her in The Case for Israel). She was also a research assistant in a psychology lab, and in March 2006, appeared as a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film V for Vendetta.[12] In addition to being bilingual in Hebrew[13] and English, Portman has studied[14] French,[15] Japanese,[15] German[16] and Arabic.[17]

As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers which were published in professional scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper on the "Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen" was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search.[18] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence" during her psychology studies at Harvard.[19]

Portman is among a very small number of professional actors with a defined Erdős–Bacon number.[20][19][21][22][23][24][25]An individual's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that individual and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the individual is separated from actor Kevin Bacon. These numbers are the primary measures of the small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment, respectively.

Personal activities and beliefs

Portman has been a vegetarian since childhood[26] and is an advocate for animal rights. She does not eat animal products or wear fur, feathers or leather. "All of my shoes are from Target and Stella McCartney", she says.[27] In 2007, Natalie Portman traveled to Rwanda with Jack Hanna, to film a documentary titled Gorillas on the Brink. Later at a naming ceremony, Portman named a baby gorilla Gukina, which means 'to play'.[28] In 2007, she launched her own brand of vegan footwear.[29] Portman has been an advocate of environmental causes since childhood, when she joined an environmental song and dance troupe known as World Patrol Kids.[30]

Portman has spent some of her free time involved in causes such as the Democrats' 2004 U.S. presidential campaign and ending poverty. In 2004 and 2005 she traveled to Uganda, Guatemala, and Ecuador as the Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, an organization that promotes micro-lending to help finance women-owned businesses in poor countries.[31] In an interview conducted backstage at the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia and appearing on the PBS program Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria she discussed microfinance.[32] Host Fareed Zakaria said that he was "generally wary of celebrities with fashionable causes", but included the segment with Portman because "she really knew her stuff".[33] In the "Voices" segment of the 29 April 2007, episode of the ABC Sunday Morning Program This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Portman discussed her work with FINCA and how it can benefit women and their children in third world countries.[34] In the Fall of 2007, Portman visited several university campuses, including Harvard, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, New York University, and Columbia, to inspire students with the power of microfinance and to encourage them to join the Village Banking Campaign to help families and communities lift themselves out of poverty.[35]

On the concept of the afterlife, she comments "I don't believe in that. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live."[6] She has said that she feels more Jewish in the Holy Land and that she would like to raise her children in the Jewish religion: "A priority for me is definitely that I'd like to raise my kids Jewish, but the ultimate thing is to have someone who is a good person and who is a partner... I get much more Jewish in Israel".[36] Portman supports Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for President in the 2008 U.S elections but says that she "likes Obama as well".[37] Portman, who had read W. E. B. Du Bois, was interviewed for the August 2004 issue of Allure magazine where she was quoted as saying, "Oh my God! I'm not black, but I know what it feels like!"[38] She then wrote a letter to their editor, in which she wrote: "The 'it' I was referring to when I said, 'I know what it feels like,' was not intended to signify that I know 'how black people feel,' but rather that I know what Du Bois’ concept of double-consciousness feels like, in variation. Had my quote included what I actually said preceding that statement, perhaps my meaning would have been clearer."[39]

Portman has had romantic links with actors including Gael Garcia Bernal and Jake Gyllenhaal.[40] In the May 2002 issue of Vogue, Portman called actor/musician Lukas Haas and musician Moby her close friends.[41] She was linked to Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, but he claims they are friends.[42] She reportedly dated Nat Rothschild, of the famous multi-billionaire banking family.[43] In late 2007, she was spotted with former male model Nathan Bogle at the U.S. Open on September 5, 2007.[44] After starring in the video for his song "Carmensita", she began dating Venezuelan folk singer Devendra Barnhart.[45] When asked in a June 2002 Rolling Stone interview whether she "ever wondered, growing up, whether [she was] gay", she said: "Sure. I've never dated a woman or anything like that. But ... I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with — and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people? ... I think my personality is more compatible with men than women."[46]

Career

Early career

Portman started dancing lessons at the age of four[1] and she performed in local troupes. At the age of ten, a Revlon agent asked her to become a child model[7][1], but she turned down the offer, to focus on acting. In a magazine interview, Portman said that she was "...different from the other kids. I was more ambitious, I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. I was a very serious kid."[47] Portman spent her school holidays attending theater camps. When she was ten, she auditioned for Ruthless!, a play about a girl who is prepared to commit murder to get the lead in a school play, and she was chosen as the understudy for Laura Bell Bundy.[9] In 1994, she auditioned for the role of a child who befriends a middle-aged hitman in Luc Besson's film Léon (aka The Professional). Soon after getting the part, she took her grandmother's maiden name "Portman" as her stage name, in the interest of privacy;[1] in the Director's Cut of the film on DVD she is credited as Natalie Hershlag. Léon opened on November 18, 1994, and marked her feature film debut at age 13. That same year she appeared in the short film Developing, which aired on television.

1995–1999

During the mid-1990s, Portman had roles in the films Heat, Everyone Says I Love You, and Mars Attacks!, as well as a major role in Beautiful Girls.[1] She was also the first choice to play Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, but producers felt her age wasn't suitable enough.[7] In 1997, Portman played the role of Anne Frank in a Broadway adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. She initially turned down the lead role in the film Anywhere But Here, after learning it would involve a sex scene, but director Wayne Wang and actress Susan Sarandon demanded a rewrite of the script; Portman was shown a new draft, and she joined the project.[1] The film opened in late 1999, and she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ann August.[48] Critic Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon called Portman "astonishing", and noted that "[u]nlike any number of actresses her age, she's neither too maudlin nor too plucky." [49] In the late 1990s, Portman was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. The first part, Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, opened in early 1999, and the popularity of the film made Portman well known to audiences.[1] She then signed on to play the lead role of a persevering teenaged mother in Where the Heart Is.

2000–2005

After filming Where the Heart Is, Portman moved into the dorms of Harvard University to pursue her bachelor's degree in psychology.[1] She said in a 1999 interview that, with the exception of the Star Wars prequels, she would not act for the next four years in order to concentrate on studying.[50] During the summer break, from June to September 2000, Portman filmed Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in Sydney, including additional production in London. In July 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols, playing the role of Nina alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.[1] The play opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.[51] That same year, she was one of many celebrities who made cameo appearances in the comedy Zoolander. In 2002, the film opened around the world. Portman was cast in a small role in the film Cold Mountain alongside Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.[1]

In 2004, Portman appeared in the independent movies Garden State and Closer.[1] Garden State was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, and won Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. Her performance as Alice in Closer saw Portman win a Supporting Actress Golden Globe as well as a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.[52][53]

2005 saw the worldwide release of the final Star Wars prequel, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith on May 19. The film was the highest grossing film of the year, and was voted Favorite Motion Picture at the People's Choice Awards. Shortly before the film's opening, Portman shaved her head for her role in the film adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta, released in March 2006. Her shaved head was first seen publicly at the Revenge of the Sith premieres. "Making a dramatic change that isn't reversible is always a worthy experience", she said of the drastically different hairstyle, "and that sort of gave me the courage to do it."[54] She kept her hair short for most of 2005, had a fauxhawk, and briefly sported a full mohawk in late August, saying that it was "kind of wonderful to throw vanity away for a bit".[55] Also in 2005, Portman filmed Free Zone and director Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts. Forman hadn't seen any of her work, but thought she looked like a Goya painting so he requested a meeting.[56]

2006–present

Portman appeared on Saturday Night Live on March 4, 2006,[57] hosting the show with musical guest Fall Out Boy and special guest star Dennis Haysbert. In a SNL Digital Short,[58] she portrays herself as an angry gangsta rapper (with Andy Samberg as her Flava Flav-esque partner in Viking garb) during a faux-interview with Chris Parnell, saying she cheated at Harvard University while high on pot and cocaine.[59] In another sketch, she portrays a student named Rebecca Hershlag (her actual surname) attending a Bar Mitzvah, and in an installment of the recurring sketch The Needlers (also known as Sally and Dan, The Couple That Should Be Divorced), plays a fertility specialist (her father's profession).

Portman promoting V for Vendetta at Comic Con 2005.
Portman promoting V for Vendetta at Comic Con 2005.

V for Vendetta opened in early 2006. Portman portrayed Evey Hammond, a young woman who is saved from the secret police by the main character, V. Portman worked with a voice coach for the role, learning to speak with an English accent, and had her head shaved.[60] Maxim magazine named Portman #33 on its annual Hot 100 list, citing her V for Vendetta hairstyle as a huge accomplishment proving "you don't need hair to be hot."

Portman has commented on V for Vendetta's political relevance, and mentioned that her character, who joins an underground anti-government group, is "often bad and does things that you don't like" and that "Being from Israel was a reason I wanted to do this because terrorism and violence are such a daily part of my conversations since I was little." She said the film "doesn't make clear good or bad statements. It respects the audience enough to take away their own opinion".[61] Both Goya's Ghosts and Free Zone received limited releases in 2006. Portman starred in the children's film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, which began filming in April 2006 and was released in November 2007; she has said that she was "excited to do a kids' movie."[60] In late 2006, Portman filmed The Other Boleyn Girl, a historical drama in which she plays Anne Boleyn; Eric Bana and Scarlett Johansson co-starred in the film. She was also named one of the hottest women of film and TV by Blender Magazine.[62]

In 2006, she filmed Wong Kar-wai's road movie My Blueberry Nights. She won acclaim for her role as gambler Leslie, because "[f]or once she's not playing a waif or a child princess but a mature, full-bodied woman,...but she's not coasting on her looks;...She uses her appeal to simultaneously flirt with and taunt the gambler across the table"[63].Portman had a small role in the 18th season of The Simpsons as the voice of Bart Simpson's first girlfriend, Darcy.[64] She also appears in Paul McCartney's music video "Dance Tonight" from his 2007 album Memory Almost Full, directed by Michel Gondry.[65]Portman co-starred in the Wes Anderson short film Hotel Chevalier, opposite Jason Schwartzman, in which she performed her first nude scene.[66] She is scheduled to star opposite Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in the drama film Brothers, a remake of the 2004 Danish film of the same name.[67]

In May 2008 Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury.[68]

Filmography

Film/Television

Year Title Role Notes
1994 Léon (aka The Professional) Mathilda
1995 Heat Lauren Gustafson
1996 Beautiful Girls Marty
Mars Attacks! Taffy Dale
Everyone Says I Love You Laura Dandridge
1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Padmé Amidala
Anywhere But Here Ann August
2000 Where the Heart Is Novalee Nation
2001 Zoolander (Herself) cameo
2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Padmé Amidala
2003 Cold Mountain Sara
2004 Garden State Samantha
Closer Alice Ayres/Jane Jones For Closer, she received a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA Award.
2005 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Padmé Amidala
Free Zone Rebecca received a limited U.S.theatrical release in April 2006
2006 V for Vendetta Evey Hammond
Paris, je t'aime Francine
Goya's Ghosts Ines Bilbatua & Alicia
2007 My Blueberry Nights Leslie
The Darjeeling Limited Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
Hotel Chevalier Jack's Ex-Girlfriend 13-minute short companion piece to The Darjeeling Limited
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Molly Mahoney
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl Anne Boleyn
Brothers TBA post-production
2009 New York, I Love You Rifka

Theater

Awards

Won

Nominations

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Awards
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by
Renée Zellweger
for Cold Mountain		 Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
for Closer
2005		 Succeeded by
Rachel Weisz
for The Constant Gardener
San Diego Film Critics Society Award
Preceded by
Renée Zellweger
for Cold Mountain		 Best Supporting Actress
for Closer
2004		 Succeeded by
Rachel Weisz
for The Constant Gardener
Saturn Award
Preceded by
Naomi Watts
for King Kong		 Best Actress
for V for Vendetta
2006		 Succeeded by
TBD


Persondata
NAME Portman, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hershlag, Natalie
SHORT DESCRIPTION Israeli-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem, Israel
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH