Natalie Portman
Born at Hadassah University Hospital in West Jerusalem on June 9, 1981, Natalie Portman holds both Israeli and United States citizenship and has worked across film, television, and stage throughout her career. Her education took her from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School and Syosset High School to Harvard University, and she has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Working in English and Hebrew, she has built a career that spans acting, directing, producing, and screenwriting.
Portman has worked as a film actor, stage actor, and television actor, and has also taken on roles as a film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Her work in front of the camera brought her significant recognition from major industry bodies. She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, honors that marked her standing within the film industry at different stages of her career.
Her most prominent awards came in recognition of a leading performance: she received the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. These awards, spanning two of the most prominent film award bodies in the United States and the United Kingdom, reflect the reach of her work across international audiences. The Library of Congress Name Authority file records her as Portman, Natalie, 1981-, a cataloguing entry that places her among figures whose work has warranted formal archival recognition.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I’ve gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn’t the end of the world.
I’m pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?’
I’m trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
I’d basically have trouble with any job that doesn’t require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it’s so worth is. It’s done wonders for my mood.