Natalie Portman is a famous American actress, producer, screenwriter and director. She has won many prestigious film awards such as Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Saturn.
The beginning of Natalie Portman's film career
The surname Hertzschlag is translated from Hebrew as "heart beat". The actress's creative pseudonym, Portman, is the maiden name of her maternal grandmother.
Natalie Herzschlag was born in Jerusalem on June 9, 1981 in the family of an artist and a doctor. When Natalie was 3 years old, the family moved to America. At the age of 11, she won a modeling competition and signed her first contract to advertise Revlon perfumes.
A year later, Natalie took part in screen tests for the role of the young heroine of the cult film Leon by the famous French director Luc Besson. Portman was not immediately approved for this role, but it more than met the director's hopes. Natalie brilliantly coped with the role and immediately became famous.
This picture was followed by work in other successful film projects. Natalie Portman played with Mike Mann in Heat, opposite Al Pacino and Robert De Niro; Tedd Demme's Beautiful Girls, for which she was nominated for several prestigious film awards; the great Woody Allen in Everyone Says I Love You; and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (Mars Attacks!).
Film biography of Natalie Portman
Natalie brilliantly graduated from high school and entered Harvard at the Faculty of Psychology. She combines her studies at a prestigious university with work in the cinema. In 1999, Portman starred in George Lucas's science fiction epic Star Wars. The Phantom Menace "(Star Wars. The Phantom Menace), followed by work in two more episodes of this epic:" Attack of the Clones "(Attack of the Clones) and" Revenge of the Sith "(Revenge of the Sith), which added to the actress's popularity.
In 2004, Portman played for the patriarch of American cinema Mike Nichols in Closer, where Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen became her partners. Natalie Portman was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role as stripper Alice in Proximity.
In 2011, the actress was given the prestigious Oscar for her role as the ballerina obsessed with Odile in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. This work also earned her another Golden Globe.
In 2008 Natalie Portman became the youngest member of the Cannes Film Festival jury.
In total, Natalie Portman's filmography includes about 50 films, including My Blueberry Nights, The Other Boleyn Girl, Goya's Ghosts, Love and Other Circumstances (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits). In 8 films she acted as a producer, wrote a script for 3 films and directed them as a director.
