Natalie Portman

Birthplace: Jerusalem, Israel
Birthday: June 9, 1981

From her first film, Luc Besson's "The Professional" (1994), the slim, dark, olive-skinned and somewhat exotic looking Natalie Portman was tagged with star quality, and as she matured the actress proved her potential both as an Oscar-nominated dramatic actress and as a pop movie icon with her role as the regal Padme Amidala in the "Star Wars" prequels.

She played an orphan apprenticed to a "cleaner" or hit man (Jean Reno) who serves as her mentor, and she as his savior. "The Professional" proved an auspicious debut, winning Portman attentio…more

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Developing
Nina
V for Vendetta: Unmasked
The 77th Annual Academy Awards
Susan Sarandon: Rebel With a Cause
Interviewee
The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards

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Career Milestones

2008
Formed own production company, HandsomeCharlie Films
2008
Portrayed Anne Boleyn, opposite Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn in "The Other Boleyn Girl"
2007
Played a woman who inherits a magical toyshop in "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium," co-starred opposite Dustin Hoffman
2007
Portrayed Goya's muse, who is falsely accused of heresy in Milos Forman's "Goya's Ghosts"
2006
Co-starred as one of two woman brought together by circumstance in Amos Gitai's "Free Zone"