Natalie Portman
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Natalie Portman
Rosalind Franklin
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Mary Muggle-Wump (voice)
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Self (archive footage)
... 2025
Charlotte Purdue
... 2025
Self - Presenter
... 2025
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Elizabeth
... 2023
Self
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Self - Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
... 2022
Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
... 2022
Lucy Cola
... 2019
... 2019
Jane Foster
... 2019
Sam Turner
... 2019
Celeste Montgomery
... 2018
Narrator (voice)
... 2018
Lena
... 2018
Rhonda
... 2017
Jackie Kennedy
... 2016
Laura Barlow
... 2016
Jane Hammond
... 2015
Elizabeth
... 2015
Fania Oz
... 2015
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Jane Foster
... 2013
Jane Foster
... 2011
Isabel
... 2011
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Emma Kurtzman
... 2011
Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen
... 2010
Emilia Greenleaf
... 2010
Natalie Portman
... 2010
Nicole
... 2010
Grace Cahill
... 2009
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Rifka
... 2008
Anne Boleyn
... 2008
Leslie
... 2007
Molly Mahoney
... 2007
Jack's Girlfriend
... 2007
Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
... 2007
Inés Bilbatúa / Alicia
... 2006
Francine (Faubourg Saint-Denis)
... 2006
Aurora Mardiganian (voice)
... 2006
Evey
... 2006
Padmé Amidala
... 2005
Rebecca
... 2005
Dominique Bellamy
... 2005
Alice
... 2004
Sam
... 2004
Francine
... 2004
Sara
... 2003
Padmé Amidala
... 2002
... 2001
Natalie Portman
... 2001
Novalee Nation
... 2000
Ann August
... 1999
Padmé Amidala
... 1999
Taffy Dale
... 1996
Laura Dandridge
... 1996
Marty
... 1996
Lauren Gustafson
... 1995
Nina
... 1995
Mathilda Lando
... 1994
Ronnie
Raylene Jackson
Ally