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Foxy Trotter pre-production Ronnie. May December pre-production Elizabeth Berry. Thor Were an Only Child? Jane Foster voice. Donovan Sam Turner. Video short Miss Dior. Christina Craft. Darcy voice. Taffy Dale. In , Portman had starring roles in the independent movies Garden State and Closer.
In she filmed Free Zone. The year also saw a close to the Star Wars prequel trilogy, with Revenge of the Sith released worldwide on May 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 Her shaved head was first seen publicly at the Revenge of the Sith premieres.
She kept her hair short for most of , had a fauxhawk mohawk, and briefly sported a full mohawk in late August, saying that it was "kind of wonderful to throw vanity away for a bit".
During the latter part of , Portman filmed Goya's Ghosts. In a now-famous SNL Digital short, 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. Sally and Dan, The Couple That Should Be Divorced , plays a fertility specialist her father is a physician who specializes in fertility and reproduction. This reference article is mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes see www.
See also our Disclaimer. Natalie Portman. Portman at the Cinemathique Gala. Natalie is entirely of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. In , magazines reported that Portman started a new trend - wearing logo T-shirts - when they snapped photos of her at her 18th birthday wearing a snug Nesquik shirt.
However, logo T-shirts had already been popular since at least the s She had borrowed the shirt from her best friend's eight-year-old brother; he was appalled. In , she spent a few months in Madrid partying with Javier Bardem and friends.
She was mostly unrecognizable to fans because of her Mohawk. Once during an interview, she offered a metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the David Hare play "Via Dolorosa".
It's about a man who jumps out of a burning building and lands on a passerby, breaking the passerby's leg. The passerby says, "You broke my leg", and the man breaks his other leg to shut him up.
Said that it was while working on The Seagull that she became aware that acting is much more about the process than the product.
Most helpful was when she would peek over Philip Seymour Hoffman 's shoulder at the notebook he kept, in which he wrote questions and then answers about his character's feelings. She became the first client of Artists Management Group to land representation at the powerhouse Creative Artists Agency. Was surprised and amused to discover that her apartment in the heart of Kings Cross, London, was across the street from a brothel.
Took diving courses in Eilat, Israel. Diving is one of her favorite hobbies. As the first day of Cold Mountain filming fell on Halloween, Portman came to set dressed as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz", only to realize she was the only one who had dressed up.
Her years at Harvard resulted in the phenomenon of The Natalies, in which every underclasswoman with that first name received numerous e-mails and phone messages from fans. When she arrived at a London airport to do reshoots for the third Star Wars prequel, a customs official--going by her size--asked Natalie if she was traveling with a guardian. Portman has also been friends with Isaac Mizrahi since she was 14, and friends with Mike Nichols and his wife Diane Sawyer since she was Afterwards, the team gave her her own jersey.
While in northern Iraq in , the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry hung a giant poster of her in their command hanger after discovering that most of the men in the unit were big fans.
Her father Avner was born on September 12, , and her mother Shelley was born on June 9, Natalie was born on her mother's 29th birthday. Has a slight indentation on her head, that was visible during the time she had her head shaved. The indentation was the result of being delivered by vacuum extraction. Director Milos Forman sought her out for an audition after seeing her on the cover of Vogue. He said that she looked like a Goya painting. She has lived on Long Island, New York since she was a child While in Morocco, she lived in a tent and traveled by camel.
She visits Morocco regularly. Named 2 on Empire magazine's Sexiest Movie Stars and was ranked 2 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list Was listed as a potential nominee for the Razzies for Worst Actress, for her performances in Goya's Ghosts and Mr. She didn't make the final ballot. Replaced Eva Green in Closer Previous owners were Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener Best friends with Rashida Jones. Was originally cast as Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights , but was replaced by Gemma Arterton , who was later replaced by Kaya Scodelario , after dropping out of the project.
December 28, Engaged to Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied , with whom she is expecting their first child. She has said one of the most difficult challenges of filming Black Swan was her speaking voice. She stated throughout her career, so far, director Mike Nichols has given her consistent criticism on how childish her voice normally sounds and encouraged her to work with vocal coaches to make it sound deeper and more adult.
The role of Nina required her to regress backwards to make her voice more child-like. She felt it was taking her back to a point she worked hard to leave behind.
Was briefly referenced in The Social Network Portman was approached by writer Aaron Sorkin when writing the screenplay to the film to get insider information on Harvard University at that time because she was a fellow student of Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, and also Divya Narendra and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
In spring , she completed one semester of graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. She led the class in a discussion about politically infused violence referencing her most recent film at the time, V for Vendetta Her appearance was part of an MTV short-series, "Stand-Ins", where college professors were replaced with a celebrity instructor for one day.
She often broke down and cried offstage while part of the Broadway adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in , where she portrayed Anne Frank, because of her personal connections to the events. Her grandparents lost most of their family members in the Holocaust including her paternal great grandparents who were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Was a resident of Lowell House during her first year at Harvard University.
Did not have a Bat Mitzvah due to her parents being more secular than religious Jews. She attended a Conservative Jewish day school through seventh grade more to preserve her sense of Israel and her Hebrew than a religious motivation. On February 27, , a video of top Dior designer, John Galliano , going on an anti-Semitic rant in Paris surfaced online.
Portman released a statement condemning Galliano's actions, specifying she was "shocked and disgusted," and as a proud Jewish woman refused to associate herself with him from that point on. Since the Miss Dior Cherie ad campaign was set to officially launch two days after the video surfaced, Dior was forced to take legal action to work out a settlement in order to keep Portman as a spokesperson. Galliano was fired on March 1, and the ad campaign launched as originally planned.
Paid for all of her own ballet training to prepare for the role of Nina Sayers in Black Swan Where the Heart Is contains her first on-screen love scene. Was considered for the role of Dr. Ryan Stone in Gravity , which went to Sandra Bullock. Is a spokeswoman for FINCA, a financial charity who gives and recycles small loans to women in poverty stricken countries so they can start small businesses.
FINCA's president Rupert Scofield has spoken about feeling lucky to have Portman as a celebrity spokeswoman because she is, "extremely intelligent and committed. She ultimately was cast as a lead character, Sally Hirst. In July , Guillermo del Toro spoke in an interview about how Bailee Madison was "a miracle" and that they had Portman to thank for it. The role ultimately went to Rooney Mara. Millepied was awarded the "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres".
Owns and operates her own film production company, Handsomecharlie Films, with Annette Savitch. As of , every film produced by the company except for the short film "Eve", which Portman wrote and directed has featured Natalie in a lead or supporting role. As well as acting in the films produced by Handsomecharlie Films, she is also credited as an executive producer.
On October 18, , she added a fan-voted Spike TV Scream Award for Best Actress in the film Black Swan to the collection of other awards she received for the same film and category. Participated in a live reading of the film The Apartment where she read the part of Fran Kubelik originally portrayed by Shirley MacLaine.
Portman read alongside J. Was a vegetarian from until when after reading the book Eating Animals she opted to become a vegan. However she resumed vegetarianism after falling pregnant with her son Aleph to give him the necessary supplements and also due to her insatiable craving for eggs and cheese. Following her son's birth she resumed veganism once again. Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to her son Aleph in order to begin filming Song to Song Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son named Aleph Portman-Millepied on June 14, August 4, Married her boyfriend of three years and father of her month-old son Aleph Benjamin Millepied.
It was a private ceremony in Big Sur, California. When Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in September and awaiting extradition to the United States for having raped a year-old girl back in , Portman along with Harrison Ford , Monica Bellucci , Tilda Swinton , Adrien Brody and many others signed a petition to free him, even though Polanski did admit that he did have sex with the year-old, committing statutory rape.
In a interview for Buzzfeed to promote Annihilation , Portman stated that she regretted her involvement, alleging that someone was passing the petition around where she lived and she'd ignorantly signed her name to be helpful.
Named as one of the "most desirable" famous women for by Ask men's list of the Top 99 "most desirable" women. Neal is the only one to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. She was pregnant again when she was nominated for Best Actress in Has starred in two film franchises in which she stars as a woman who falls in love with a warrior.
One of only four actors with an Erdos-Bacon number - 7 for Portman. This represents sum of the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon 2 and degrees of separation from co-authoring a paper with famed mathematician Paul Erdos 5 having co-authored the peer-reviewed paper "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" while a student at Harvard.
She has made four films with Samuel L. She lost 20 pounds for her role as "Nina Sayers" in Black Swan She appeared in two films with Lukas Haas in Mars Attacks! Portrays Jane Foster, the title character's love interest in Thor In , Jane took over the Mjolnir and assumed the mantle of Thor, replacing him in his monthly comic book title. She was ranked 44 in , 37 in , 34 in , 33 in , 30 in , 19 in , 14 in , 2 in , 1 in Has worked with three of the same directors as Carrie Fisher.
Portman credits that film with reviving her career after Star Wars. Fisher's career as a writer and script doctor took off after Nichols's film adaptation of Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge Is one of five actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for playing a first lady of the United States Jackie Kennedy.
Natalie is the first person born in the s and thus could be considered the first millennial to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Black Swan, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Ryan Gosling are the first persons born in the s to have been nominated in those two respective categories.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 35, a daughter named Amalia Millepied on February 22, Child's father is her husband, Benjamin Millepied. Donovan Returned to work 12 months after giving birth to her daughter Amalia to begin filming Vox Lux In she graduated from Harvard in the same class as then friend Jared Kushner and attended his and bride Ivanka Trump 's wedding in Portman did, however, meet her onscreen daughter Leia Carrie Fisher.
In his autobiography, "Then It Fell Apart," Moby claims that he dated Portman after she asked him out: "I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me. On Lolita : I don't think there needs to be a movie out where a child has sex with an adult. On Lolita : I think there's enough exploitation out there that it's not necessary to do more. Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes.
They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarassing family, friends, and even strangers. On acting: I started to do this at age At age 20, I might say, this is enough. On violence in the media: We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction , it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off.
A Revlon agent spotted a year-old Portman and asked her to sign as a child model, but she turned down the offer. However, she used the opportunity to get an acting agent, jumpstarting her career. Her Hebrew birth name, Neta-Lee Hershlag, was changed to protect her privacy as a child actress.
From a young age, Portman expressed an interest in foreign languages. Her training came in handy for her Oscar-winning performance in Black Swan She missed the premiere of her film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace because she was studying for her high school final exam. I'd rather be smart than a movie star. Director of Anywhere But Here Wayne Wang even demanded a rewrite of the script to eliminate a sex scene after Portman initially turned down her leading role. Her first-ever on-stage performance was as an understudy alongside a young Britney Spears for the off-Broadway musical Ruthless!
One of the main reasons for her veganism is her support for animal rights. She graduated from Harvard University in with a B. She also worked countless hours with a dialect coach for her role as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in the biopic Jackie. She has also been compared to Audrey Hepburn. Portman met her husband, Benjamin Millepied, on the set of Black Swan
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