Portman at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con | |
Born | June 9, 1981 (age 38)[1] |
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Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Years active | 1994–present |
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Spouse(s) | Benjamin Millepied (m.2012) |
Children | 2 |
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Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag;[a] June 9, 1981) is an actress and filmmaker with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Portman made her feature film debut as the young protégée of a hitman in the action film Léon: The Professional (1994). While still in high school, she gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and received critical acclaim for playing a precocious teenager in the comedy-drama Anywhere but Here (1999). From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University for a bachelor's degree in psychology, while continuing to act in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002, 2005). She also starred in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. In 2004, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in the romantic drama Closer.
Learn about Israeli-born American actress Natalie Portman biography, wiki, height, weight, age, husband, family, net worth and facts. Feb 15, 2018 Natalie Portman is an Oscar-winning, Israeli American actress known for her role in films such as 'Black Swan,' 'Jackie,' 'Thor' and the 'Star Wars' franchise.
Portman's career progressed with her starring roles as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2006), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011) and featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011), and Thor: The Dark World (2013). For portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), Portman received her third Academy Award nomination.
Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015). She is vocal about the politics of America and Israel, and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. She is married to dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children.
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Family background and education
Portman was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem.[1] Her parents are Jewish.[4][5][6] Her parents gave her the traditional Hebrew name of 'Neta-Lee'.[2] She is the only child of Shelley (née Stevens),[7] an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli fertility specialist and gynecologist.[8] Her maternal grandparents, Bernice (née Hurwitz) and Arthur Stevens[7] (whose family surname was originally Edelstein),[9] were from Jewish families who moved to the United States from Austria and Russia.[10] Portman's paternal grandparents, Mania (née Portman) and Zvi Yehuda Hershlag, were Jewish immigrants to Israel.[11][12] Zvi, born in Poland, moved to what was then Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and eventually became an economics professor. His parents died at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.[12] One of Portman's paternal great-grandmothers was born in Romania and was a spy for British Intelligence during World War II.[13][14]
Portman's parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University, where her mother was selling tickets. They corresponded after her father returned to Israel and were married when her mother visited a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the family moved to the United States, where her father received his medical training.[10] Portman, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel,[15] has said that although she 'really love[s] the States ... my heart's in Jerusalem. That's where I feel at home.'[13] Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to Connecticut in 1988 and then moved to Jericho, New York, on Long Island,[16] in 1990.[17][18] While living in the Washington, D.C. area, Portman attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland.[11] Portman learned to speak Hebrew[19] while living on Long Island and attended a Jewish elementary school, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County in Jericho, New York.[16][20] She graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, Long Island in 1999.[21][22] She studied ballet and modern dance at the American Theater Dance Workshop in New Hyde Park, New York, and attended the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Wheatley Heights, both on Long Island.[16] Portman did not attend the premiere of her film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, so she could study for her high school final exams.[23]
After graduating from Harvard University in 2003, she was commencement speaker in 2015.
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.'[24] As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, 'A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar', co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search.[25] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called 'Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy' during her psychology studies at Harvard.[26][27]
In 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in psychology.[28][29] 'I don't care if [college] ruins my career,' she said in 2002. 'I'd rather be smart than a movie star.'[30][31] At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz's research assistant.[32][33] While attending Harvard, she was a resident of Lowell House[34] and wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in response to an essay critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians.[35]
Portman returned to Israel and took graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004.[36] In March 2006, she was a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her 2006 film, V for Vendetta.[37] Portman has professed an interest in foreign languages since childhood and has studied French,[38] Japanese,[38] German,[39] and Arabic.[40]
Career
1992–1998: Early work
When Portman was 10 years old, a Revlon agent spotted her at a pizza store and asked her to become a child model.[41] She turned down the offer but used the opportunity to get an acting agent.[32][13] She auditioned for the 1992 off-Broadway musical Ruthless!, about a girl who is prepared to commit murder to get the lead in a school play.[42] Portman and Britney Spears were chosen as the understudies for star Laura Bell Bundy.[36] Six months after the play ended, Portman auditioned for and secured a leading role in Luc Besson's action film Léon: The Professional (1994).[13] To protect privacy, she adopted her paternal grandmother's maiden name, Portman, as her stage name.[43][44] She played Mathilda, an orphan child who befriends a middle-aged hitman (played by Jean Reno). Her parents were reluctant to let her do the part due to the explicit sexual and violent nature of the script, but agreed after Besson took out the nudity and killings committed by Portman's character.[45] Portman herself opined that after those scenes were removed, she found nothing objectionable about the content.[46] Even so, her mother was displeased with some of the 'sexual twists and turns' in the finished film, which were not part of the script.[41]Hal Hinson of The Washington Post commended Portman for bringing a 'genuine sense of tragedy' to her part, but Peter Rainer of Los Angeles Times believed that she 'isn't enough of an actress to unfold Mathilda's pain' and criticized Besson's sexualization of her character.[47][48]
'[T]here's a surprising preponderance of that kind of role for young girls. Sort of being fantasy objects for men, and especially this idealised purity combined with the fertility of youth, and all this in one. [...] It was definitely interesting to think about - why men write the female characters they do. Just like the way they write the male character. How much is wish-fulfilment fantasy, and why.'
—Portman recalling about playing sexualized youngsters as a child, in a 2007 interview[49]
After filming The Professional, Portman went back to school and during the summer break of 1994, she filmed a part in Marya Cohn's short film Developing. In it she played a young girl coping with her mother's (played by Frances Conroy) cancer.[50] She also enrolled at the Stagedoor Manor performing arts camp, where she played Anne Shirley in a staging of Anne of Green Gables.[51]Michael Mann offered her the small part of the suicidal stepdaughter of Al Pacino's character in the action film Heat (1995) for her ability to portray dysfunction without hysteria.[52][53] Impressed by her performance in The Professional, the director Ted Demme cast her as a precocious teenager who flirts with her much-older neighbor (played by Timothy Hutton) in the ensemble comedy-drama Beautiful Girls (1996).[46]Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, 'Portman, a budding knockout, is scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role.'[54] She subsequently went back to Stagedoor Manor to appear in a production of the musical Cabaret.[55] Also in 1996, Portman had brief roles in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You and Tim Burton's comic science fiction film Mars Attacks!.[56]
Portman was cast opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1997), but she dropped out during rehearsals when studio executives found her too young for the role.[41] She was also offered Adrian Lyne's Lolita, based on the novel of the same name, but she turned down the part due to its excessive sexual content.[41][46] She later bemoaned that her parts in The Professional and Beautiful Girls prompted a series of offers to play a sexualized youngster, adding that it 'dictated a lot of my choices afterwards 'cos it scared me ... it made me reluctant to do sexy stuff'.[49] Portman instead signed on to star as Anne Frank in a Broadway adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, which was staged at the Music Box Theatre from December 1997 to May 1998. In preparation, she twice visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and interacted with Miep Gies; she found a connection with Frank's story, given her own family's history with the Holocaust.[57][58] Reviewing the production for Variety, Greg Evans disliked her portrayal, which he thought had 'little of the charm, budding genius or even brittle intelligence that the diary itself reveals'.[59] Conversely, Ben Brantley found an 'ineffable grace in her awkwardness'.[60] The experience of performing the play was emotionally draining for her, as she attended high school during the day and performed at night; she wrote personal essays in Time and Seventeen magazines about her experience.[61]
1999–2006: Star Wars and transition to adult roles
Portman's costume from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Portman began filming the part of Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy in 1997, which marked her first big-budget film release. The first film of the series, Episode I – The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, when she was in her final year of high school.[62] Portman was unfamiliar with the franchise when she was cast, and watched the original Star Wars trilogy before filming began.[63] She also worked closely with the director George Lucas on her character's accent and mannerisms, and watched the films of Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, and Katharine Hepburn to draw inspiration from their voice and stature.[64] Filming in arduous locations in Algeria proved to be a challenge for Portman, who struggled with the process of making a film involving special effects.[13][65] Critics disliked the film but with earnings of $924 million worldwide it was the second highest-grossing film of all time to that point, and it established Portman as a global star.[66][67][68]
Following production on The Phantom Menace, Portman initially turned down a lead role in the coming-of-age film Anywhere but Here (1999) after learning it would involve a sex scene, but director Wayne Wang and actress Susan Sarandon (who played Portman's mother in the film) demanded a rewrite of the script. Portman was shown a new draft, and she decided to accept the role.[17][69]Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon called Portman's performance 'astonishing' and said that 'unlike any number of actresses her age, she's neither too maudlin nor too plucky'.[70] She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[71]
Portman's sole screen appearance in 2000 was in Where the Heart Is, a romantic drama filmed in Texas, in which she played a pregnant teenager.[72] After finishing work on the film, she began attending Harvard University to pursue her bachelor's degree in psychology, and significantly reduced her acting workload over the next few years.[17] In the summer of 2001, she returned to Broadway (at the Delacorte Theater) to perform Chekhov's drama The Seagull, which was directed by Mike Nichols and co-starred Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.[73] Linda Winer of Newsday wrote that the 'major surprises come from Portman, whose Nina transforms with astonishing lyricism from the girl with ambition to Chekhov's most difficult symbol of destruction'.[74] Also in 2001, Portman was among several celebrities who made cameo appearances in the comedy Zoolander.[75] The following year, she reprised her role of Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which she had filmed in Sydney and London during her summer break of 2000.[76] She was excited by the opportunity to play a confident young woman who did not depend on the male lead.[77] Portman graduated from Harvard in 2003 and her sole screen appearance that year was in the brief part of a young mother in the war film Cold Mountain.[17]
Portman on the set of Free Zone in 2005
Portman began 2004 by featuring in the romantic comedy Garden State, written and directed by its star Zach Braff. She was the first actor to sign on to the film after finding a connection with her part of a spirited young girl suffering from epilepsy.[18][78] Her role in it is considered a prime example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl character type.[79] Portman later commented that she found it upsetting to have contributed to the trope.[80] She followed it by playing a mysterious stripper in Closer, a drama directed by Mike Nichols based on the play of the same name, and co-starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, and Clive Owen. She agreed to her first sexually explicit adult role, after turning down such projects in the past, saying that it reflected her own maturity as a person.[18][81] She also performed her first nude scenes for it, but they were cut when she insisted that they were inessential to the story.[81] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone labeled it a 'blazing, breakthrough performance' and added that she 'digs so deep into the bruised core of her character that they seem to wear the same skin'.[82] She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[83][84]Closer was also a commercial success, earning over $115 million against its $27 million budget.[85]
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the final installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, was Portman's first film release of 2005. It earned over $848 million to rank as the second-highest-grossing film of the year.[86] She next played a Jewish-American girl in Free Zone, a drama from the Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai. To prepare, she studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and read memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin, which she said allowed her to explore both the role and her own heritage.[81] Controversy arose when she filmed a kissing scene at the Wailing Wall, where gender segregation is enforced, and she later issued an apology.[87] Critics disliked the film for its heavy-handed approach to the conflicts in the Middle East.[88] Portman's final film role in 2005 was as Evey Hammond in the political thriller V for Vendetta, based on the comics of the same name, about an alternative future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom. She was drawn to the provocative nature of the script, and worked with a dialect coach to practice a British accent. She also shaved her hair for the part, which she considered an opportunity to rid herself of vanity.[89] Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Chronicle considered it to be Portman's best performance to that point and wrote that she 'keeps you focused on her words and actions instead of her bald head'.[90] She was awarded with the Saturn Award for Best Actress.[91]
Portman began 2006 by hosting an episode of the television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.[92] One of her sketches, a song named 'Natalie's Rap', was released in 2009 on Incredibad, an album by the Lonely Island.[93] In the anthology film Paris, je t'aime, consisting of 18 short films, she had a role in the segment named 'Faubourg Saint-Denis' from director Tom Tykwer.[94] Later that year, she starred in Miloš Forman's Goya's Ghosts, about the painter Francisco Goya. Forman cast her in the film after finding a resemblance between her and Goya's portrait The Milkmaid of Bordeaux.[95] She insisted on using a body-double for her nude scenes after discovering on set that she had to perform such scenes when they were not originally in the script.[96] It received predominantly negative reviews, but Roger Ebert was appreciative of Portman for playing her dual role 'with fearless conviction'.[97][98]
2007–2015: Evolution and critical recognition
Portman began 2007 by replacing Jodie Foster in Wong Kar-wai's romantic drama My Blueberry Nights, which was his first English-language film. For her role as a gambler, she trained with a poker coach.[99]Richard Corliss of Time magazine believed that 'for once she's not playing a waif or a child princess but a mature, full-bodied woman' and commended her 'vibrancy, grittiness and ache, all performed with a virtuosa's easy assurance'.[100] Her next appearance was in Hotel Chevalier, a short film from Wes Anderson, which served as a prologue to his feature The Darjeeling Limited (in which Portman had a cameo).[101] In the short, Jason Schwartzman and her play former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room. For the first time, Portman performed an extended nude scene; she was later disappointed at the undue focus on it and she subsequently swore off further nude appearances.[96][102] Keen to work in different genres, Portman accepted a role in the children's film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which she played an employee at a magical toy store.[103] She also appeared in Paul McCartney's music video 'Dance Tonight' from his album Memory Almost Full, directed by Michel Gondry.[104]
Portman at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where she served as a jury member
Scarlett Johansson and Portman starred as rival sisters Mary and Anne Boleyn, respectively, in the period film The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). She was excited by the opportunity to work opposite another actress her age, bemoaning that such casting was rare in film.[105] Derek Elley of Variety was critical of Portman's English accent and wrote that she 'doesn't quite bring the necessary heft to make Anne a truly dominant power player'.[106] The film had modest box-office earnings.[107] She served as a jury member of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and also launched her own production company, named handsomecharlie films, after her late dog.[99][108] Portman's directorial debut, the short film Eve, opened the short-film screenings at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.[109] It is about a young woman who goes to her grandmother's romantic date, and Portman drew inspiration for the older character (played by Lauren Bacall) from her own grandmother.[110]
A poorly received adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, entitled The Other Woman, marked Portman's first film role of 2009.[111] She appeared in a faux perfume commercial called Greed, directed by Roman Polanski, and in the anthology film New York, I Love You, she directed a segment and also starred in a different segment directed by Mira Nair.[112][113] Portman next took on a role opposite Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in the drama film Brothers, a remake of the 2004 Danish film of the same name. Her role was that of a war widow, for which she interacted with military wives. The film was shot during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, and Portman found it challenging to shoot certain scenes without a bound script.[114] Claudia Puig of USA Today found her to be 'subdued and reactive in a part that doesn't call for her to do much else'.[115]
After producing and co-starring alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the black comedy Hesher (2010),[116] Portman played a young ballerina overwhelmed with the prospect of performing Swan Lake in Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film Black Swan. She was trained by the professional ballerina Mary Helen Bowers, and in preparation, she trained for five to eight hours daily for six months and lost 20 pounds (9 kg).[117][118][119] Her performance was acclaimed;[120] writing for Empire, Dan Jolin found her to be 'simultaneously at her most vulnerable and her most predatory, at once frostily brittle and raunchily malleable [...] before peaking at the film's denouement with a raw, alluring showstopper of a performance'.[121]Black Swan emerged as a sleeper hit, earning over $329 million worldwide against a $13 million budget, and earned Portman the Academy Award for Best Actress.[122][123][124] Following her win, controversy arose over who performed the bulk of the on-screen dancing in the film.[125]Sarah Lane, one of Portman's dancing doubles in the film, claimed that Portman performed only about five percent of the full-body shots, adding that she was asked by the film's producers not to speak publicly about it during the Oscar season.[126] Aronofsky defended Portman by insisting that she had performed 80 percent of the on-screen dancing.[126]
Portman at the 83rd Academy Awards, where she won Best Actress for Black Swan (2010)
Portman next served as an executive producer for No Strings Attached (2011), a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and her as a young couple in a casual sex relationship. She described the experience of making it as a 'palate cleanser' from the intensity of her Black Swan job.[127] It received unfavorable reviews but was a commercial success.[128][129] She next agreed to the stoner filmYour Highness for the opportunity of playing an athletic and foul-mouthed character, which she believed was rare for actresses.[130] Critics were dismissive of the film's reliance on scatological humor and it proved to be a box-office bomb.[131][132] In her final film release of 2011, Portman took on the part of Jane Foster, a scientist and love-interest of the titular character (played by Chris Hemsworth) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Thor. She liked the idea of Kenneth Branagh directing a big-budget film that emphasized character; she signed on to it before receiving a script, and helped developed her part by reading the biography of scientists such as Rosalind Franklin.[133][134][135] Richard Kuipers of Variety commended Portman's 'sterling work in a thinly written role' for adding dimension to the film's romantic subplot.[136]Thor earned $449.3 million worldwide to emerge as the 15th highest-grossing film of 2011.[137]
In 2012, Portman topped Forbes' listing of the most bankable stars in Hollywood.[138] Her sole screen appearance that year was in Paul McCartney's music video 'My Valentine', alongside Johnny Depp.[139] The following year, she reprised the role of Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World, which earned over $644 million worldwide to emerge as the 10th highest-grossing film of 2013.[140]Forbes featured her in their Celebrity 100 listing of 2014, and estimated her income from the previous year to be $13 million.[141]
In 2015, Portman appeared alongside an ensemble cast, including Christian Bale, in Terrence Malick's experimental drama film Knight of Cups, which marked her first project after giving birth. She shot for it within a week; she did not receive a traditional script or dialogues and improvised most of her scenes with Bale.[142][143] She said that shooting with Malick influenced her own directorial venture, A Tale of Love and Darkness, which released in the same year.[142] Based on Israeli author Amos Oz's autobiographical novel of the same name which is set in Jerusalem during the last years of Mandatory Palestine, the Hebrew-language film starred Portman who also produced and co-wrote it.[144][145] She wanted to adapt the book since she first read it a decade ago, but postponed it until she was old enough to play the leading role of a mother herself. She collaborated closely with Amos, showing him drafts of her script as she adapted the book.[146][147] A. O. Scott of The New York Times found it to be a 'conscientious adaptation of a difficult book' and was appreciative of Portman's potential as a filmmaker.[148] She next produced and starred in the western film Jane Got a Gun about a young mother seeking vengeance. Initially scheduled to be directed by Lynne Ramsay, the production was plagued with numerous difficulties. Ramsay did not turn up on set for the first day of filming and was eventually replaced with Gavin O'Connor. Michael Fassbender, Jude Law and Bradley Cooper were all cast as the male lead, before Ewan McGregor played the part.[149]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian reviewed that Portman's 'stately performance' was not enough to save the 'laborious and solemn western', and it grossed less than $4 million against its $25 million budget.[150][151]
2016–present: Jackie and beyond
Portman at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Portman portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), about Kennedy's life immediately after the 1963 assassination of her husband. She was initially intimidated to take on the part of a well-known public figure,[152] and eventually researched Kennedy extensively by watching videos of her, reading books, and listening to audiotapes of her interviews.[153][154] She also trained with a dialect coach to adapt Kennedy's unique speaking style.[155] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it an 'incandescent performance' and added that 'her Jackie is both inscrutable and naked, broken but unquestionably resilient, a mess and yet fiercely dignified'.[156] She won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[157][158] She also served as producer for the comedy horror film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, directed by Burr Steers, and starred in Rebecca Zlotowski's French-Belgian drama Planetarium.[159][160] The 2017 experimental romance Song to Song marked Portman's second collaboration with Terrence Malick, which like their previous film polarized critics.[161][162]
In 2018, Portman starred in the science fiction film Annihilation, based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel. She played a biologist and former soldier who studies a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating organisms.[163][164] She was pleased to headline a rare female-led science fiction film, and she moved her family near Pinewood Studios during filming. For the action sequences, she underwent movement training with the dancer Bobbi Jene Smith.[165] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian took note of Portman's 'strong, fiercely compelling presence' and commended her for playing the part without unnecessary sentimentality.[166] It only received a limited theatrical release and was distributed on Netflix internationally.[167] Her next appearance was in Xavier Dolan's first English-language film, the ensemble drama The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018), which was termed a 'shocking misfire' by Eric Kohn of IndieWire.[168] She then starred as a troubled pop singer in Vox Lux, sharing the part with Raffey Cassidy. She was attracted to the idea of showcasing the negative effects of fame, and in preparation, she watched documentaries on musicians and listened to the music of Sia, who composed her songs in the film. For the climactic dance routines, she trained with her husband, Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed the sequence.[169] It received mixed reviews but Portman's performance was picked up for praise.[170] Comparing it to her portrayals in Black Swan and Jackie, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote that 'this role has a similar audacity and extravagance that few actresses would dare attempt, let alone be allowed to get away with'.[171]
Unused footage from Thor: The Dark World and a new voice-over was used for Portman's brief appearance in the 2019 superhero film Avengers: Endgame.[172] She then portrayed a psychologically troubled astronaut (based on Lisa Nowak) in the drama Lucy in the Sky, directed by Noah Hawley.[173] She replaced the film's producer Reese Witherspoon, who backed out due to a scheduling conflict. Although Portman's performance was picked up for praise, the film was unfavorably reviewed.[174]
Portman will next narrate the Disney+ nature documentary Dolphin Reef and reprise her role as Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder, which is set to be released in 2021.[175][176]
Social and political causes
Portman, who is an advocate for animal rights, became a vegetarian when she was eight years old, a decision which came after she witnessed a demonstration of laser surgery on a chicken while attending a medical conference with her father.[177] She became a vegan in 2009 after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and later produced a documentary on factory farming systems in the U.S. by the same title.[178][179] In September 2017, she was recognized for her work on the film by the Environmental Media Association Awards with the Ongoing Commitment Award.[180][181] She does not eat animal products or wear fur, feathers, or leather. 'All of my shoes are from Target and Stella McCartney', she has said.[182] In 2007, she launched her own brand of vegan footwear.[183] In 2007, Portman traveled to Rwanda with Jack Hanna, to film the documentary, Gorillas on the Brink. Later, at a naming ceremony, Portman named a baby gorilla Gukina, which means 'to play.'[184] Portman has been an advocate of environmental causes since childhood, when she joined an environmental song and dance troupe known as World Patrol Kids.[185] She is also a member of the One Voicemovement.[186]
Speaking about global microfinance organization, FINCA at Columbia University in 2007
Portman has also supported anti-poverty activities. 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 developing countries.[187] 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. 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'.[188] In the 'Voices' segment of the April 29, 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 children in Third World countries.[189] In fall-2007, she visited several university campuses, including Harvard, USC, 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.[190]
Portman is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and for the 2004 presidential election she campaigned for the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry. Prior to the 2008 presidential election, Portman supported Senator Hillary Clinton of New York in the Democratic primaries. She later campaigned for the eventual Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. In a 2008 interview, she also stated: 'I even like John McCain. I disagree with his war stance – which is a really big deal – but I think he's a very moral person.'[191] In 2010, Portman's activist work and popularity with young people earned her a nomination for VH1's Do Something Awards, which is dedicated to honoring individuals who do good.[192] In 2011, Portman and her then-fiancé Benjamin Millepied were among the signers of a petition to President Obama in support of same-sex marriage.[193] Portman supported Obama's re-election campaign.[194]
In January 2011, Portman became an ambassador of WE Charity (formerly known as Free The Children), an international charity and educational partner, spearheading their Power of a Girl campaign.[195] She hosted a contest challenging girls in North America to fundraise for one of WE Charity's all-girls schools in Kenya. As incentives for the contest winner, she offered her designer Rodarte dress, worn at the red carpet premiere of Black Swan, along with tickets to her next premiere.[195] WE Charity's all-girls school was also the beneficiary of proceeds from sales of Nude Grege #169, the lipstick Portman designed for Christian Dior.[196] It was announced in May 2012, that Portman would be working with watch designer Richard Mille to develop a limited-edition timepiece with proceeds supporting WE Charity.[197] Throughout the years Portman has participated in WE Day events organized by WE Charity.[198] WE Days aim to educate, empower and supply tools for teens to be socially active in their communities. During WE Day California 2019 Portman gave a pro vegan speech in front of the student audience, linking between Vegan lifestyle and feminism.[199][200]
In February 2015, Portman was among other alumni of Harvard University including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Darren Aronofsky and Susan Faludi who wrote an open letter to the school demanding it divest its $35,900,000,000 endowment from coal, gas, and oil companies.[201] Later that year in May, she spoke at the annual Harvard Class Day to the graduating class of 2015.[202]
Portman, an Israeli-American, has become increasingly vocal about her views on the Israeli government, specifically Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. Portman was critical of Netanyahu's re-election in 2015, stating that she was 'disappointed' and often found his comments racist.[203] In November 2017, Portman was announced as the Genesis Prize recipient for 2018, which includes $2,000,000 in prize money.[204][203] The following April, Portman announced that she did not plan to attend the award ceremony scheduled for June, due to 'recent events in Israel' that left her feeling uncomfortable attending public events there.[205] The ceremony was cancelled in consequence.[205] Portman later clarified that she is not boycotting Israel, but did not want to 'appear as endorsing' Netanyahu, who was set to give a speech at the ceremony.[206]
In January 2018, she donated $50,000 to Time's Up.[207] In February 2018, Portman advocated believing women and listening to their voice, supported Dylan Farrow and expressed regret over signing a petition to release Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland in 2009.[208]
During the 2018 Women's March in Los Angeles, she spoke about the 'sexual terrorism' she experienced that began when she was 13 years old after the release of Léon: The Professional. She told the crowd; 'I understood very quickly, even as a thirteen-year-old, if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe. And that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort.'[209] She drew attention to the #MeToo movement stating her first ever piece of fan mail, was a rape fantasy between her and the male fan, and that her local radio station created a countdown until her eighteenth birthday (when she would be of legal age to consent to participation in sexual activity).[210]
Personal life and in the media
Portman is married to French danseur and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children, son Aleph (b. 2011)[211][212] and daughter Amalia (b. 2017).[213] The couple began dating in 2009, after having met while working together on the set of Black Swan,[214] and wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on August 4, 2012.[215][216] The family lived in Paris for a time, after Millepied accepted the position of director of dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, and Portman expressed a desire to become a French citizen.[217][218] They currently reside in Los Angeles.[219]
In 2006, she commented that she felt more Jewish in Israel and that she would like to raise her children Jewish: '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.'[220]
In 2010, Portman signed on with Dior and appeared in several of the company's advertising campaigns.[221] In October 2012, Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned a Dior advertisement that featured Portman wearing Dior mascara after a complaint from Dior's competitor, L'Oreal. The ASA ruled that the photographs of Portman 'misleadingly exaggerated the likely effects of the product'.[222]
Acting credits and awards
Portman's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Closer (2004), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), V for Vendetta (2005), Black Swan (2010), No Strings Attached (2011), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Jackie (2016), and Annihilation (2018).[223][224]
Portman was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Black Swan, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for Closer. She has received two more Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Closer and Best Actress for Jackie; and two more Golden Globe nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Anywhere but Here (1999) and Best Actress in a Drama for Jackie.[225]
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Bibliography
- Dickerson, James L. (2002). Natalie Portman: Queen of Hearts. ECW Press. ISBN9781550224924.
- Dickerson, James L. (2012). Natalie Portman's Stark Reality: A Biography. Sartoris Literary Group. ISBN9780985513597.
External links
- Natalie Portman on IMDb
- Natalie Portman at the Internet Broadway Database
- Natalie Portman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Works by or about Natalie Portman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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Overview (4)
Born | in Jerusalem, Israel |
Birth Name | Natalie Hershlag |
Nickname | Nat |
Height | 5' 3' (1.6 m) |
Mini Bio (1)
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, a 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 Léon: The Professional (1994) (aka 'Léon'). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996).
It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas, Anywhere But Here (1999) and Where the Heart Is (2000), followed by Closer (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: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Black Swan (2010).
She received a second nomination for Best Actress, for playing Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie (2016).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, a 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 Léon: The Professional (1994) (aka 'Léon'). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996).
It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas, Anywhere But Here (1999) and Where the Heart Is (2000), followed by Closer (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: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Black Swan (2010).
She received a second nomination for Best Actress, for playing Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie (2016).
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Spouse (1)
Benjamin Millepied | (4 August 2012 - present) ( 2 children) |
Trade Mark (5)
Often portrays characters that are rather smart, mature and grown up for their age
Lisp sweet voice
Mole on the side of her face
Trivia (160)
Turned down a role in The Horse Whisperer (1998) to act in 'The Diary of Anne Frank' on Broadway.
Graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York in June 1999.
Has taken dance lessons since the age of 4. Still takes ballet classes.
Stated in a TV interview that with the exception of the Star Wars prequels, she will not act for the next four years in order to concentrate on studying at Harvard University (1999).
Can speak two languages, Hebrew and English (her native languages), fluently. Also knows some conversational French, German, Japanese and Spanish.
Originally turned down the role of Ann August in the film Anywhere But Here (1999) because of the love scene between herself and Corbin Allred that required nudity. Susan Sarandon, who had co-star approval, said she couldn't continue the movie without Portman, so the script was re-written without the scene and she accepted the role.
Was a member of the environmental song and dance troupe The World Patrol Kids under her real name, Natalie Hershlag.
She went to Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp in 1994 and 1995 where she was Anne in 'Anne of Green Gables' in 1994 and 'Tapestry' in 1995.
She was discovered in a pizza parlor and was originally turned down for the role of Mathilda in Léon: The Professional (1994) because she was too young.
David Letterman and Harpers and Queen magazines said that she is 'the new Audrey Hepburn'.
Turned down the title role in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), due to her feelings about young adult actors/actresses being exposed to sex in films.
Before she was cast in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), she had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy. She admitted to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), in 2004, that, before being cast, she didn't know the difference between 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek'.
Moved to the United States when she was 3 years old.
Turned down the role of Wendy Hood in The Ice Storm (1997) because she felt the material was 'too dark'. The role went to Christina Ricci, who has said she often gets the projects Natalie turns down.
Said would never be in a horror movie or any other 'Jennifer Love Hewitt type' film
Has said in interviews that when she gets older, she would like to be a doctor like her father.
Was reportedly caught using a fake ID trying to sneak into Boston club called the Roxy. The performer Moby insisted that she was invited by him and refused to perform unless she was admitted. She was admitted, and security watched her as she stood in the back, watched the show, and didn't drink. She later stated in an online interview that the story about sneaking into the Roxy club in Boston was not true and that she and her friends went home after they were denied entrance.
Takes pride in the fact that she is a role model for girls and chooses roles that are positive so that they will have a positive role model to look up to.
Her father is a fertility specialist and gynecologist.
Auditioned for the role of young Amy March in Little Women (1994), which went to Kirsten Dunst.
Became interested in acting after spending three summers at the prestigious (and expensive) Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp.
Is very close to her parents and says, 'The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they always love you.'.
Grew up in Syosset, Long Island, New York, where she still resides.
Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002).
One of Teen People magazine's 25 Hottest Stars under 25 (2002).
The makeup brand Stila has a lip gloss named after her.
As of November 2010, she has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) 15 times.
Voted the 15th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine. [September 2002]
Graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2003 with a Artium Baccalaureus degree in Psychology.
Has a passion for travel. In late 2003 and early 2004, she traveled alone to Morocco and Guatemala.
Is trained in ballet, jazz, and tap dancing.
She has worked with or appeared with several of her co-stars twice: Ashley Judd in Heat (1995) and Where the Heart Is (2000); Lukas Haas in Mars Attacks! (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Julia Roberts in Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and Closer (2004); Philip Seymour Hoffman in the play 'The Seagull' and Cold Mountain (2003); John Carroll Lynch in Beautiful Girls (1996) and Anywhere But Here (1999); Stellan Skarsgård in Goya's Ghosts (2006) and Thor (2011); Olivia Thirlby in New York, I Love You (2008) and No Strings Attached (2011). She has also worked with director Mike Nichols on two occasions: for the play 'The Seagull' and Closer (2004). She has also appeared alongside Jude Law three times in Cold Mountain (2003), Closer (2004) and My Blueberry Nights (2007), and with Hayden Christensen three times in the Star Wars prequels and New York, I Love You (2008).
As a young girl, she was an understudy for the lead character in the off-Broadway show 'Ruthless', alongside Britney Spears. They still keep in touch, and recently threw a party together in New York City.
Fashion designer Zac Posen refers to her as his 'muse'.
Both she and Sofia Coppola have played the daughter of a character played by Al Pacino, and also both appeared in a film featuring Pacino and Robert De Niro. Sofia Coppola was in all three Godfather films (though she had only an uncredited part in the second), and Portman was in Heat (1995). Portman and Coppola appeared together in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
Close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Her comedic influences are Lily Tomlin and Diane Keaton. She said in an interview, 'I love Lily Tomlin and I love Diane Keaton. They're sort of my heroes. Diane Keaton can do anything. She's just the best there is.'
Has a song named after her by the band TeamSleep.
She and director Tom Tykwer became good friends after working together on True (2004).
She spoofed her role in Star Wars before becoming involved in the series. In Mars Attacks! (1996), she gives a medal to Lukas Haas in a scene resembling the award ceremony at the end of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The medals were given out by Princess Leia, the daughter of Portman's future character, Queen Amidala. In addition, the recipients of those medals, Haas and Harrison Ford, appeared together in Witness (1985).
Was considered for a role in Elizabethtown (2005).
Has a CD named after her by Chicago-based DJ Intel One. The CD was done for charity, given away, and titled 'Love: A Tribute to Natalie Portman'. It featured songs by Shelley Duvall, Common, The Roots and others.
She has worked with two Draculas as well as two Frankenstein monsters. In Léon: The Professional (1994), she worked with Gary Oldman, who played Dracula for Francis Ford Coppola. In Heat (1995), she appeared with Robert De Niro, who played The Creature for Kenneth Branagh. In Star Wars, she works with Christopher Lee, who played both roles for Hammer Film Productions.
Had to miss the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) so she could study for her high school final exams.
Bears a striking resemblance to Keira Knightley. Knightley played Sabé, the Queen's decoy, in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). When in makeup, not even the mothers of the actresses could tell them apart.
She hesitantly shot an explicit nude scene for Closer (2004), in the scene where Alice (Portman) strips for Larry (Clive Owen). Ultimately, Portman and director Mike Nichols agreed not to use it, as the scene was effective enough without it.
Worked with a vocal coach to learn how to speak with an English accent for V for Vendetta (2005).
Learned how to play the piano and conduct for Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007).
Named #42 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
Named #49 in FHM's '100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005' special supplement.
Says her performances in Everyone Says I Love You (1996) is her worst. Her failure, she believes, is her inability to improvise.
Several months after shaving her head, she was traveling through Ireland and stopped for directions at a bed and breakfast. The owners refused to allow her even onto their porch. However, they did give her directions.
A radio station once had a contest to find out where she went to school; Backstreet Boys tickets were the prizes.
Natalie is entirely of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Natalie's father was born in Israel and Natalie's mother was born in Ohio, in the United States. Natalie's paternal grandparents, Zvi Yehuda Hershlag (a member of the tribe of Naftali) and Mania Portman, were from Rzeszów, Poland, and Romania, respectively. Natalie's maternal grandfather, Arthur Edelstein (later Stevens), was born in New York, to a family of emigrants from Austria, Ukraine, and Russia, while Natalie's maternal grandmother, Bernice Hurwitz, was born in Maryland, the granddaughter of emigrants from Lithuania/Russia.
In 1999, 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 1970s) She had borrowed the shirt from her best friend's eight-year-old brother; he was appalled.
In 2005, 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 (2002) 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. CAA refused to work with clients of its former founder Michael Ovitz's AMG; as soon as the one-time super-agent sold out his interest in the management firm, CAA went straight after Portman.
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.
For her 2003 New Year's party, she wore a Zac Posen dress that had more than $10,000 worth of crystals sewn onto it. She also attended Moby's much-hyped secret Naked NYE party.
As the first day of Cold Mountain (2003) 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.
Is close friends and well-known customer of Zac Posen, friends with Jeanine Lobell and her husband Anthony Edwards, as well as Jonathan Safran Foer. 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 15.
Attended a soccer game in Madrid with Stellan Skarsgård. Afterwards, the team gave her her own jersey.
While in northern Iraq in 2004, 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.
Was considered for the role of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane (2007), which went to Anne Hathaway.
Her parents met at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Her father Avner was born on September 12, 1951, and her mother Shelley was born on June 9, 1952. 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.
Named #61 in FHM magazine's '100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006' supplement.
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 currently lives on Long Island, New York, and also shares a home in London, England. She has lived on Long Island, New York since she was a child (2007).
Listens mostly to R&B, old school hip-hop and 1990s alternative rock. Some of her favorite groups and artists are A Tribe Called Quest, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan and Nirvana.
Footage of her and Leonardo DiCaprio as Juliet and Romeo in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) was actually shot before executives had her replaced with Claire Danes due to the age difference between Natalie and Leonardo.
Unwinds by singing karaoke at Winnie's, a New York City bar in Chinatown.
While in Morocco, she lived in a tent and traveled by camel. She visits Morocco regularly.
There is a band named after her: Natalie Portman's Shaved Head.
Named #2 on Empire magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars (2007) and was ranked #2 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list (2008).
During the royal premiere of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), she met Prince Charles. The prince asked her whether she had also been in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which had been released four years before her birth.
Was listed as a potential nominee for the 2008 Razzies for Worst Actress, for her performances in Goya's Ghosts (2006) and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007). She didn't make the final ballot.
Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
Sold her 2,088-square-foot house in Sea Cliff, New York for $1.750 million. She had purchased it in 2002 for $1.375 million (2007).
Sold her two-bedroom loft in Manhattan's West Village for $6.55 million. She purchased the property in 2005 for $5.7 million (2008).
She paid $3.25 million to purchase a four-bedroom, 4,866-sq.-ft. home in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills area. Previous owners were Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener (2009).
(September 13, 2009) Was in attendance at the wedding of her Your Highness (2011) co-star Zooey Deschanel to Benjamin Gibbard.
Best friends with Rashida Jones. Also close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Bryce Dallas Howard, Britney Spears, Mila Kunis, Robert Pattinson, and Julia Roberts.
Was originally cast as Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights (2011), but was replaced by Gemma Arterton, who was later replaced by Kaya Scodelario, after dropping out of the project.
Was considered for the role of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010) after Emily Blunt dropped out of the project, but Scarlett Johansson was cast instead.
(December 28, 2010) Engaged to Black Swan (2010) choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she is expecting their first child.
(March 6, 2009) In New York, she led a viewing of A Powerful Noise (2008), a documentary about women fighting adversity. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar held another viewing in Los Angeles, California.
Was considered for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), but Anne Hathaway was cast instead.
Is one of 14 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014), Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014) and Brie Larson for Room (2015).
She has said one of the most difficult challenges of filming Black Swan (2010) 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 (2010). 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 2004, she completed one semester of graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.
She entered a project into the Intel Science Talent Search in the late 1990s while at Syosset High School. Her project, titled 'A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar', took her to the semi-finals of the Intel contest. She graduated Valedictorian of Syosset High School in 1999 and went on to study Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University, graduating in 2003.
In 2006, she appeared as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in a political science course titled 'Terrorism & Counterterrorism'. She led the class in a discussion about politically infused violence referencing her most recent film at the time, V for Vendetta (2005). 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 1997, 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.
Is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel.
Was voted 'Most Likely to be on Jeopardy' in the senior superlatives at Syosset High School.
In January 2011, she became the new face of Dior in the Miss Dior Cherie ad campaign. On February 27, 2011, 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, 2011 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 (2010).
Where the Heart Is (2000) contains her first on-screen love scene.
One month before filming began for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Portman began taking daily classes to master the English accent under dialect coach Jill McCullough.
Was considered for the role of Dr. Ryan Stone in Gravity (2013), which went to Sandra Bullock.
Was ranked #8 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2011 list.
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.' Portman has traveled to several countries as a FINCA ambassador and worked with many of the women FINCA's donations have helped.
Was the one who led her Brothers (2009) co-star Bailee Madison to Guillermo del Toro for a role in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010). Portman spoke about her young co-star with Alfonso Cuarón, who is a good friend of Guillermo del Toro, and then recommended Madison for a role. She ultimately was cast as a lead character, Sally Hirst. In July 2011, Guillermo del Toro spoke in an interview about how Bailee Madison was 'a miracle' and that they had Portman to thank for it.
Was one of the first actresses offered the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) along with Carey Mulligan and Ellen Page, but Portman declined due to exhaustion. The role ultimately went to Rooney Mara.
In September 2011, she traveled to Paris, France with fiancé Benjamin Millepied and their son Aleph to celebrate Millepied's retrieval of an award from the French Minister of Culture. 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 2011, 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, 2011, she added a fan-voted Spike TV Scream Award for Best Actress in the film Black Swan (2010) to the collection of other awards she received for the same film and category.
Favorite actresses include Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton.
Participated in a live reading of the 1960 film The Apartment (1960) where she read the part of Fran Kubelik originally portrayed by Shirley MacLaine. The sold out reading directed by Jason Reitman was held on November 17, 2011 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Portman read alongside J.K. Simmons, Ken Jeong, Nick Kroll, and her No Strings Attached (2011) co-star Mindy Kaling.
Was a vegetarian from 1989 until 2009 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.
Served on the jury at the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards alongside Nicole Kidman and Jodie Foster.
Voted #21 on Ask men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012.
Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to her son Aleph in order to begin filming Song to Song (2017).
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son named Aleph Portman-Millepied on June 14, 2011. Child's father is her fiancé (now husband), Benjamin Millepied.
(August 4, 2012) Married her boyfriend of three years and father of her 13-month-old son Aleph Benjamin Millepied. It was a private ceremony in Big Sur, California.
When Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in September 2009 and awaiting extradition to the United States for having raped a 13-year-old girl back in 1975, 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 13-year-old, committing statutory rape. In a 2018 interview for Buzzfeed to promote Annihilation (2018), 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 2013 by Ask men's list of the Top 99 'most desirable' women.
She holds the record for third-largest 'Best Actress' award sweep (38 wins) for her role as Nina Sayers in Black Swan (2010), following Helen Mirren (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) and Cate Blanchett (41 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine (2013).
Does humanitarian work with FINCA International. [July 2005]
Los Angeles, California: Attended the 83rd annual Academy Awards with fiancé, Benjamin Millepied, and her parents, Avner and Shelley. [February 2011]
Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rachel Weisz. Neal is the only one to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Portman was 5 months pregnant with her son Aleph when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan (2010). She was pregnant again when she was nominated for Best Actress in 2017.
Was the 138th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan (2010) at The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011) on February 27, 2011.
Has starred in two film franchises in which she stars as a woman who falls in love with a warrior. The 'Star Wars' prequels as Padme Amidala and Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013) as Jane Foster.
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. Jackson: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Thor (2011).
She lost 20 pounds for her role as 'Nina Sayers' in Black Swan (2010).
She has the same Erdös-Bacon-Number, as Albert Einstein, with an 11.
She has appeared in two films with 'I Love You' in the title: Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and New York, I Love You (2008).
She appeared in two films with Lukas Haas in 1996: Mars Attacks! (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996).
Portrays Jane Foster, the title character's love interest in Thor (2011). In 2014, Jane took over the Mjolnir and assumed the mantle of Thor, replacing him in his monthly comic book title.
Inspired the Wachowskis to adapt David Mitchell's novel, 'Cloud Atlas', into a film.
Named 'The Most Beautiful Face of 2008' by TC Candler's list of the '100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World', and ranked on their list for 19 consecutive years (1998-2016). She was ranked #44 in 2016, #37 in 2015, #34 in 2014, #33 in 2013, #30 in 2012, #19 in 2011, #14 in 2010, #2 in 2009, #1 in 2008.
Has worked with three of the same directors as Carrie Fisher. Firstly, they played on-screen mother-and-daughter Padme and Leia in George Lucas's Star Wars films. Secondly, Woody Allen cast them in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Thirdly, Mike Nichols directed Fisher's first film, Shampoo (1975), and Portman in Closer (2004). 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 (1990).
Is one of five actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for playing a first lady of the United States (Jackie Kennedy). Previous nominees were Beulah Bondi (Rachel Jackson), Greer Garson (Eleanor Roosevelt), Joan Allen (Pat Nixon), and Sally Field (Mary Todd Lincoln).
Natalie is the first person born in the 1980s (and thus could be considered the first millennial) to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan, 2010). Eddie Redmayne is the first person born in that decade to win Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)). Catalina Sandino Moreno and Ryan Gosling are the first persons born in the 1980s 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, 2017. Child's father is her husband, Benjamin Millepied.
Was 4 months pregnant with her daughter Amalia when she completed filming The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018).
Returned to work 12 months after giving birth to her daughter Amalia to begin filming Vox Lux (2018).
In 2003 she graduated from Harvard in the same class as then friend Jared Kushner.
Though she played Padmé Amidala, the biological mother of Luke Skywalker in three installments of the Star Wars movies, she has never personally met Mark Hamill as of 2018; Hamill revealed this to his followers on Twitter when it was Portman's 37th birthday, as well as noting that the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vanity Fair (which features the stars of both Star Wars trilogies) was shot individually. Portman did, however, met her onscreen daughter Leia (Carrie Fisher).
In his 2019 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.' Portman responded forcefully to his version of events, saying that she had just turned 18 when they met (Moby had claimed she was 20), that they had not dated, and that she had distanced herself from him once 'I realized that this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate' (he is 16 years her senior).
Personal Quotes (109)
On Lolita (1997): I don't think there needs to be a movie out where a child has sex with an adult.
On Lolita (1997): 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 11. 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 (1994), 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. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
I want to use college to explore what other careers I might be interested in.
On acting: I'm taking it day by day. Right now I like acting, but if something else sparks my interest in college, I'll do that. It's so limiting to say, this is it for the rest of my life. There are so many things that interest me: I love math, science, literature, languages.
On Lolita (1997): Let me tell you, this movie's going to be sleaze.
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruined my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
When I'm working, they pretty much treat me like an adult, but then when there's a break everyone else goes to their trailers and drinks beer and I like, go to school.
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them, you just want to run up and hug them.
I've never tried smoking. I don't drink. I've never tried drugs. (Australian Dolly, August 2000)
Politics is easy to segue into from acting. I'm very interested in it, though I would never run for office. But after this, anything I do is going to seem very bizarre to me. (Interview, October 1999)
No, but I've been thinking about it a lot. I love acting, but I don't know if there's something out there that I love more. That's what college is going to be about for me - checking things out. (Interview, October 1999)
When asked by Seventeen magazine what advice she had for teenagers going off to college, she said 'I would say practicing laundry it's so hard.'. (November 1999)
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. (Seventeen, November 1999)
Told the November 1999 issue of Mademoiselle magazine that she wished she knew David Letterman because, 'He seems to be so smart, but you never get to hang out with him after the show.'.
When asked by German Cosmopolitan if she would like having herself as a daughter, she replied, 'Well of course. I am a good person, nice, smart, witty, trustworthy, know nice people, don't do drugs and earn a lot of money.' On what she likes about her parents: 'They have made it quite clear that they believe I can be great. Had my parents expected less of me,I would not be the person I am now. And I am very happy with myself.'. (German Cosmopolitan, March 2000)
I'm not planning to be an actress as an adult, I'm planning other things for my future. (Venice Magazine, July 1995)
I don't think I'd be able to deal with just acting, because I don't know if you get to use your brain that much. You do, for certain roles, but not most. Acting is more of a hobby for me.
There's a big intellectual aspect that's kind of lacking,' she says of acting in films. 'Right now I supplement that through being in school. I'm not sure I'd be happy if I was just acting. I haven't explored a lot of other avenues. Hopefully I'll figure it out by the end of school, so I know what I want to do with my life.
When asked about her prom dress: A designer is going to give me something to wear. It's the most amazing perk I have.
I didn't have this undying need to be an actress. I didn't have that fire in me ever -- at any point. And still, I don't think I have that within me.
I don't really know if acting would have ultimately become my passion as an adult, or if there's something else I would have found had I not been in the pizza shop. That's what college is helping me investigate.
I'm ready to ditch the movies and keep at the books. There are so many other things, and it would feel limiting to say, 'Acting is it for me.' I love psychology. That's what I'm studying right now. It would probably be difficult, because of my current occupation, to become a clinical psychologist, but I could certainly do research. And I'd like to have a family someday, too.
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
I don't go wagging my boobs around in people's faces. (Rolling Stone (USA), June 2002)
I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.
I was in a relationship recently with someone who yelled at me for being too much in my head, you know? He said 'I was thinking too much about everything.'.
I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth it. It's done wonders for my mood.
I basically have a little boy's body. They tell me, 'Okay, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'.
On traveling through Morocco with a guide and sleeping in tents: They knew that I am Israeli, and yet they still opened the doors of their houses for me, offering me tea. They all were nice and hospitable.
As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
My contemporaries in Israel have a love for life that's amazing. There, there is not the luxurious and rich existence of material goods of Hollywood films, every day they struggle to survive, but they still have an enthusiasm difficult to find elsewhere.
My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.
At college I began to do research for a professor and so I became part of the organization promoted by the Queen of Jordon: the Foundation for International Community Assistance. That offers microcredits, offering small loans of money to women who want to start their own businesses. The interest is very low and the results are extraordinary.
I'm pretty much a boring Goody Two-shoes. I've definitely gotten drunk before, I don't think it's possible to go through college without getting drunk, but I don't really like it at all. I actually tried my first cigarette last year at school. I just figured, if many people are smoking, there must be something to it, and before I pooh- pooh it I should at least know what it's about. I took one puff and I was like, Okay, I was right. There's nothing to it. They're just wrong, it's disgusting.
I've been doing like one movie a year so I haven't made that many movies. A lot of girls my age have done 40 already, so I guess I'm a little behind.
I get like 400 Holocaust scripts. That's what you get for being the openly Jewish actress!
I wanted to be able to form my own sexual identity. If other people have you in their mind as some sort of sex object, you have two choices: either live up to it and become super-sexual or rebel against it and be super-asexual.
I'm the anti-Method actor. As soon as we finish a scene, I need to go back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to take this home with me. I would feel cheated on when I went home. There were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my friends.
I had a bad early experience when Léon: The Professional (1994) came out. I'm really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as a sexual object when I was 12.
I think it is a really beautiful thing that we have recognition within our industry - but it's not that important.
But we have to remember that almost all films are written and directed by men. Female characters are women imagined by men, so it's always this classic figure of a sexy woman with a childish innocence.
You walk into a nice strip club, the ones where the women are treated well - obviously 'well' is debatable - and the women just seem so powerful. Women have full control; they can get whatever they want from these guys. But they realise it is a tacit contract: they are that way because men want them to be like that. Obviously, if the men wanted them on the floor scrubbing their shoes they'd probably be doing that too.
I see that my girlfriends, already at 23, are thinking, 'What career can I choose that will also suit having children?' And it is limiting. Whereas my male friends aren't thinking that way. (Premiere magazine)
[about going bald] Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian. After all the crazy hairstyles I had to endure for the films, it's quite liberating to have no hair - especially in this heat.
On filming Star Wars: You learn after your first blue-screen movie, and more after your second, the extent to which you have to prepare. You have to come up with the scenery, the characters, the whole world, as well as what's going on with you. You're often talking to a tape mark instead of a character, and you have to project what they might be thinking, what's going on, how they're treating you.
On filming Free Zone (2005) in Jerusalem: I was sleeping five hours a night and we were running from location to location and making up the story as we went along. There's a scene where my arms are uncovered and I'm very close to the guy. People got upset and we moved to another place. It was just crazy because they were calling us Nazis, and I think that's a little much.
I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one, which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign.
People think the film industry is going to corrupt me. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't curse or smoke or do anything like that around me.
The people whose secrets I most want to know are people who actually have families and marriages as well as careers - people like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore. I think that if I were like mid-30s and didn't have kids yet I would probably start adopting or something. Aargh, I don't even have a boyfriend, and I'm talking about kids!
On starring in Closer (2004): It's not exploitative, but it is about sex. No kids allowed. It's definitely a different thing for me, but I feel like I'm old enough to handle it now. I sort of understand more how to deal with it publicly, and it doesn't shatter me. I don't have to go to school the next day and have people be like, 'Oh I saw you in that movie; you were very dirty.'.
I think, especially in those first few years of college, my body started changing a lot. I got hips. Your metabolism changes; you're not exercising as much. I ran track for a couple of years in high school, and I was also dancing. I was always doing something. At Harvard, you don't really join the team unless you're a star.
(On which of the three Star Wars prequels is her favorite) They are all so very different, Episode III is very dark and much more demanding, we all know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader but to actually see this transition is very painful. So when you have such a dark story to work with it demands you as an actor to work harder. So even though I haven't seen the film yet, I would suppose that the last one is my favorite.
I began Star Wars when I was 14 and I'm going to be 24 when this final movie comes out, so these movies were 10 years of my life and now I'm just trying to do something different.
I agree with Walter Murch's theory that digital will never have the emotional or visual power of regular film, because audiences respond to absences. Regular film has a split second of blank screen between each shot, which the audience's brain has to automatically fill in. Digital doesn't have that, so it doesn't engage the audience in the same ways. In all modernist literature, the most present thing is what's absent. Like the opening of The Sound and the Fury, where they're looking between the fence. Or in Closer the most important parts, the relationships, are missing and have to be filled in by the audience. Absences are crucial.
I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that requested people's good and bad memories, and then checked them for content. But non-pathological people, people who maintain a happy, healthy brain, couldn't provide negative memories. They'd say, 'But I learned this from the experience'; they'd turn their negative memories into positive ones.
I get a copy of every action figure from Star Wars. I send them to charity. Some of the really cool ones I keep. Like there's a snow globe thing with one of the spacecrafts in it, which is also a music box, which I really love.
(Asked if winning the Globe was a shock) God, yes! I was so sure I wasn't going to win it, I went up to Meryl Streep (nominated for The Manchurian Candidate (2004)) before the show and said, 'You're going down.' We'd done a play together, so I knew her pretty well, but to me, it was a big joke, like, I'm going to win against Meryl-yeah, right. When they called my name, all I could think was, oh no, Meryl's going to be mad at me!
(On the necklace she gave Julia Roberts) Oh, I made the mistake of telling one person I did that - now everyone loves this story! It was just a joke, because there were lots of dirty words in the script and, every time Julia had to say a bad word, she got all blushy.
The moment you buy into the idea you're above anyone else is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
I actually am starting to feel I should start a revolution against heels, even though that wouldn't be a dramatic revolution. Everyone around me says, 'You have to wear heels.' It's based on some silly concept that longer legs are more beautiful.
In seventh grade, I cried every single day when I came back from shooting The Professional. My friends were not my friends. They were saying, 'She thinks she's so hot now,' things like that, and it was the most painful thing I've ever gone through. Clearly, I haven't had that difficult a life. (Jane Magazine, 1999)
Ashley Judd and I went to this place called the Broken Spoke. You walk in and everyone's wearing cowboy hats and men come up to you and ask you to dance. We danced the two-step together, and all these men were coming up, saying, 'It's not right to see two ladies dancing. Let us cut in!'.
There were stories in the house of what had happened to them (her grandparents during the Holocaust), and it wasn't that much talked about. I had to go on a website to read my grandfather's descriptions of what happened to the family.
[on Tom Tykwer, and working with him during his personal crisis] The very first time we met we were able to tell each other so much about our personal experiences and what we were going through at the moment- my own experience was a similarly difficult and pivotal one for me, though obviously a bit more adolescent than Tom's. It was part of what made the film seem like a joint search for something, a joint expedition.
[on shooting the strip-club scene fully nude] You can't do this stuff half-assed, pun intended.
[asked how she would like to be remembered] I don't like that question. That question only provides irony if you prematurely die.
[Morocco] When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strangers whom I had just met, and had traveled with earlier on camel back. There we were, watching this amazing lightening in the middle of the desert. The tent was shaking and it was a really exciting experience.
I aspire to make more comedies because we never see enough good ones.
When I was nine and attending a Jewish school, we had different kosher lunches served. We weren't kosher at home. My mom used to make me chicken salad sandwiches and I would have to lie to everyone, saying it was tuna. 'It doesn't smell like tuna,' they'd say.
[on preparing for her role as Queen Amidala] George worked with me a lot, on changing my voice and my movement and the way I carried myself. We worked on this accent that... kinda goes to old, older generations of actresses who used kind of an unidentifiable accent. 'Is it American or is it British?' and I watched Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. If you look at them, their voices and the stature is so regal, even in their everyday characters. And that's kinda why I used it to model after.
[on regretting doing nudity]: I'm really sorry I didn't listen to my intuition. From now on, I'm going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say no.
[on a torture scene she filmed for Goya's Ghosts (2006)] Last year, I did something that I wasn't comfortable with, and I'm really sorry I didn't listen to my intuition. There was a scene in a movie that felt inappropriate for me, but I didn't want to make waves... From now on, I'm going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say 'no'. (Parade magazine)
[on the dangers of too-early celebrity] I've been lucky enough that most of my big falls have been missed by the tabloids. And I think the other people have not been so lucky. It's a tricky thing, and not necessarily a positive thing,that young people are working and seeking this kind of attention. Getting this sort of attention changes them.
Overall, to get a real deep, nuanced understanding of human behaviour, art is the best way.
[on her mixed feelings about nudity] I'm really not prudish about doing nudity. I think it's beautiful in films, and sex is such a big part of life, and nudity is obviously our natural state. That's not my issue. My issue is that I feel it takes something away from what you're doing. And also that it can be used afterwards for different purposes. Misappropriated.
[on Hillary Clinton] A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it's so sexist. You ask people why they don't like her and it's because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice. She's so much more polished and experienced than anyone else. Last night, a friend, a social worker in L.A. who works with underprivileged kids, was saying how these girls who have never been interested in politics before are so excited that a woman might be president. I mean, look how many women are in government...Hillary's one of, what, [a handful of] female senators? I also like Obama. I even like McCain. I disagree with his war stance -- which is a really big deal -- but I think he's a very moral person. I met him and Hillary on the same day, actually, when I went to Washington with Finca [a nonprofit that gives loans to businesswomen in developing countries]. Hillary was by far the smartest person I met that day. Just totally focused, and knew more about the issues than anyone else, and was so able to go from one thing to the other.
(On Meryl Streep) You look at Meryl Streep, who is so phenomenally, freakishly gorgeous, and in some ways it's just bizarre that she was never a sex symbol. But it was always about her - and now it doesn't matter that she's getting older, because we just want to continue watching her be an interesting person.
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get, like, 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
[on Scarlett Johansson] Seriously, I would really want to grab Scarlett's breasts. She's got beautiful ones.
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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 embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
[on filming sex scenes in movies] - It's hard to have a sex scene, period. It doesn't matter if it's a friend, a male, a female. You're with 100-something crew members, lighting you, repositioning you, there's no comfort whatsoever.
[on her role in Black Swan (2010)] - There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die. It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it could sort of take you down.
[on her doing kissing scenes and kissing Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached (2011)] - It's awkward! It's always awkward. It's just weird to kiss someone that you wouldn't choose to kiss in your personal life. You get over it. You laugh through it and act like an immature kindergartner, which is what I did much of the time.
[on romantic comedies] - I've always wanted to do [a romantic comedy]. But the girls are always in fashion, and it's always about their clothes,' she explained.
They always want to get married at the end. There's some kind of makeover scene. That stuff offends me.
They always want to get married at the end. There's some kind of makeover scene. That stuff offends me.
I want to thank everyone who has ever hired me; Luc Besson who gave me my first job when I was 11-years old, Mike Nichols who has been my hero and my champion for the past decade and, now, Darren Aronofsky. You are a fearless leader and visionary. I am blessed to have gotten to work with you every day for the period of time that I did.
[on her pregnancy and engagement] I have always kept my private life private, but I will say that I am indescribably happy and feel very grateful to have this experience.
The part I don't like is when what you put out there as part of a story, as art, can be expropriated into something disgusting and objectifying and salacious in another context. Which it all inevitably is in today's media. I'm just aware of that because, yes I'm interested in being in a really provocative film, and no I'm not interested in being on a porn site.
[on losing weight for her Black Swan (2010) physique]: I'm a very short person and you're supposed to look very long, and you look longer when you don't have the bulk on you - which is, like, sick. The whole thing. I'm aware that it's sick.
[on doing her own dancing for Black Swan (2010)]: I do have a double for the complicated turning stuff, but anything I could do myself saved the budget hundreds of thousands of dollars in special effects.
[on the Black Swan (2010) dance controversy]: I know what went on and we had an amazing experience making the movie and I don't want to tarnish it by entering into nastiness. It's such a positive thing what we get to do. We get to create things and I feel so lucky to be a part of that. I'm really proud of everyone's work on the movie and of my experience and I'll have that forever. It's nice for me to always know about that no matter what kind of nastiness or gossip is going around.
[on Sarah Lane dance controversy] I did my work and I'm in the majority of the film. I did have a dance double for the most difficult sequences. It was just unfortunate, the entire situation. She's a wonderful dancer and hopefully people will get to see her in her company. I'm sorry that she felt unacknowledged.
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with people I want to be with.
Someone told me when I was really young not to touch my eyebrows, and that was a really good idea because it was the time when everybody was making their eyebrows really skinny. I am glad I didn't do that because they don't really come back.
I would say my friends and family are a passion, as I spend most of my time with them. I love dancing, not necessarily ballet, and I love watching dance as well. Those are definitely passions of mine.
I love being home. My work takes me away so much that it really feels like a vacation being at home and being able to stay in bed all day and not get up. However, I also love traveling and have had amazing trips to many parts of the world.
Pretty much everyone's role on a film is indispensable -- hundreds of people. Like without a first assistant director? Without a good first AD? Your movie falls to pieces. And those are people who never, ever, ever get interviewed anywhere. And they make the movie. I feel like you could probably run a set better with a good first AD and no director than a good director and no AD.
Nicole Kidman gave me the advice to always choose a film by its director. You're never certain how the movie will turn out, but you are always guaranteed an interesting experience.
[Terrence Malick's advice for her directorial debut Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Finsternis (2015)] He kept saying, 'Make films your way and don't let anyone tell you that you need a three-act structure. You just make movies as you experience life.' [2016]
[on Ashton Kutcher getting paid three times more than her for their 2011 film No Strings Attached] I wasn't as pissed as I should have been. I mean, we get paid a lot, so it's hard to complain, but the disparity is crazy
Salary (1)
Closer (2004) | $1,000,000 |