Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag, June 9, 1981) is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon: The Professional, opposite Jean Reno. She was later cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace while still at high school on Long Island. In 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress; she completed a bachelor's degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and opened in New York City's The Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 2001. Portman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for starring in the 2004 drama Closer, appeared in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith the following year, and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and also appeared in Thor (2011) and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the psychological thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award and the BFCA Award in 2011. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie. She was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. The same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, was released in 2015.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Lady in the Lake as Maddie Schwartz
- 2023 · Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2023 · May December as Elizabeth
- 2023 · Angel City as Self
- 2023 · Secrets of the Elephants as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Image Book as Self
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder as Self - Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
- 2022 · Thor: Love and Thunder as Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
- 2021 · What If...? as Jane Foster (voice)
- 2021 · One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Jane Foster (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2019 · Lucy in the Sky as Lucy Cola
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
- 2019 · Avengers: Endgame as Jane Foster
- 2019 · The Death & Life of John F. Donovan as Sam Turner
- 2018 · Bluey as Whale Doco Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Vox Lux as Celeste Montgomery
- 2018 · Annihilation as Lena
- 2017 · Song to Song as Rhonda
- 2016 · Jackie as Jackie Kennedy
- 2016 · Planetarium as Laura Barlow
- 2016 · Angie Tribeca as Christina Craft
- 2015 · Jane Got a Gun as Jane Hammond
- 2015 · Knight of Cups as Elizabeth
- 2015 · A Tale of Love and Darkness as Fania Oz
- 2015 · The Blackened Mantle as Padmé Amidala
- 2015 · The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards as Laura
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Thor: The Dark World as Jane Foster
- 2013 · Illusions & Mirrors as Young Woman
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Padmé Amidala (archive footage)
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Jane Foster (archive footage)
- 2011 · Thor as Jane Foster
- 2011 · Your Highness as Isabel
- 2011 · Black Swan: Metamorphosis as Self
- 2011 · No Strings Attached as Emma Kurtzman
- 2010 · Black Swan as Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen
- 2010 · The Other Woman as Emilia Greenleaf
- 2010 · I'm Still Here as Natalie Portman
- 2010 · Hesher as Nicole
- 2009 · Brothers as Grace Cahill
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · New York, I Love You as Rifka
- 2008 · The Other Boleyn Girl as Anne Boleyn
- 2007 · My Blueberry Nights as Leslie
- 2007 · Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium as Molly Mahoney
- 2007 · Hotel Chevalier as Jack's Girlfriend
- 2007 · The Darjeeling Limited as Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Goya's Ghosts as Inés Bilbatúa / Alicia
- 2006 · Paris Je T'aime as Francine (Faubourg Saint-Denis)
- 2006 · The Armenian Genocide as Aurora Mardiganian (voice)
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Evey
- 2005 · Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Padmé Amidala
- 2005 · Free Zone as Rebecca
- 2005 · Domino One as Dominique Bellamy
- 2004 · Closer as Alice Ayres
- 2004 · Garden State as Sam
- 2004 · True as Francine
- 2003 · Cold Mountain as Sara
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Padmé Amidala
- 2001 · Zoolander as Natalie Portman
- 2000 · Where the Heart Is as Novalee Nation
- 1999 · Anywhere but Here as Ann August
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Padmé Amidala
- 1996 · Mars Attacks! as Taffy Dale
- 1996 · Everyone Says I Love You as Laura Dandridge
- 1996 · Beautiful Girls as Marty
- 1995 · Heat as Lauren Gustafson
- 1994 · Léon: The Professional as Mathilda Lando
- 1994 · Developing as Nina
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Darcy (voice)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1969 · Sesame Street as Natalie
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee & Presenter
- 2024 · Fountain of Youth as
- 2024 · Foxy Trotter as Ronnie
- 2024 · The Twits as (voice)
- 2024 · Bronco Belle as Raylene Jackson