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Claim
To Fame & Biography
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the
Sith / V for Vendetta / Star Wars:
Episode I - The Phantom Menace Born: 9
June 1981, Israel (age 25)
Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) |
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Official Site and Fan Sites
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Official Site - Natalie Portman
- Not Available
Fan Sites
Natalie Portman
~ A comprehensive page dedicated to the beautiful actress
Natalie Portman ~ Fan site
with image gallery, biography, and
links. |
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Movie
Credits for Natalie Portman
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Indiana Jones 4 - Actress (rumored) 2008
Films In Production (4 titles)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - Molly
Mahoney 2007
My Blueberry Nights - Actress 2007
Post-production
The Other Boleyn Girl - Anne Boleyn 2007
Filming
Goya's Ghosts - Ines/Alicia 2006
Completed
Past Films & Videos (20 titles)
Paris, je t'aime - Francine (segment 'Faubourg
Saint-Denis') 2006
V for Vendetta - Evey Hammond 2005
The Making of 'Heat' (video documentary)
- Special Thanks 2005
Free Zone - Rebecca 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the
Sith - Padmé 2005
Domino One - Dominique Bellamy 2005
Closer - Alice 2004
True (short) - Francine 2004
Garden State - Sam 2004
Cold Mountain - Sara 2003
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the
Clones - Senator Padmé Amidala 2002
Where the Heart Is - Novalee Nation 2000
Anywhere But Here - Ann August 1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom
Menace - Queen Padmé Amidala 1999
Mars Attacks! - Taffy Dale 1996
Everyone Says I Love You - Laura
Dandridge 1996
Beautiful Girls - Marty 1996
Heat - Lauren Gustafson 1995
The Professional - Mathilda |
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Representation
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Creative Artists Agency (I) Talent Agency
Firm, The - Manager
ID Public Relations - Publicist |
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Fun facts & Trivia
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Turned down a role in The Horse
Whisperer to act in "The Diary of Anne
Frank" on Broadway.
Graduated from Syosset High School,
Syosset, New York. [29 June 1999]
Has been a vegetarian since the age of
8.
Has taken dance lessons since the age of
4.
Says that math was her favorite subject
in school "because there's always an
answer."
Stated in a TV interview that with the
exception of the Star Wars prequels, she
will not act for the next four years in
order to concentrate on studying at
Harvard University. [1999]
Can speak two languages, Hebrew and
English (her native languages),
fluently. Also knows some conversational
French, German, and Japanese and
Spanish.
Originally turned down the role of Ann
August in the film Anywhere But Here
because of the love scene between
herself and Corbin Allred that required
nudity. Susan Sarandon, who had co-star
approval, said she couldn't continue the
movie without Portman, so the script was
re-written without the scene and she
accepted the role.
Was a member of the environmental song
and dance troupe The World Patrol Kids
under her real name, Natalie Hershlag.
She is an only child.
She went to Stagedoor Manor Performing
Arts Camp in 1994 and 1995 where she was
Anne in "Anne of Green Gables" in 1994
and "Tapestry" in 1995.
Was the first choice to play Juliet in
Romeo + Juliet but turned it down
because of the scenes and the age
difference between her and Leonardo
DiCaprio.
She was discovered in a pizza parlor and
was originally turned down for the role
of Mathilda in The Professional because
she was too young.
Harpers and Queen magazine said that she
is "the new Audrey Hepburn".
Turned down the title role in Adrian
Lyne's Lolita, due to her feelings about
young adult actors/actresses being
exposed to sex in films.
Before she was cast in _Star Wars:
Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)_ ,
she had never seen the original 3 Star
Wars movies.
Moved to the US when she was 3 years
old.
Turned down the role of Wendy in The Ice
Storm because she felt the material was
"too dark." The role went to Christina
Ricci, who has said she often gets the
projects Natalie turns down.
Said would never be in a horror movie or
any other "Jennifer Love Hewitt type"
film
Has said in interviews that when she
gets older, she would like to be a
doctor like her father.
Was reportedly caught using a fake ID
trying to sneak into Boston club called
the Roxy. The performer Moby insisted
that she was invited by him and refused
to perform unless she was admitted. She
was admitted, and security watched her
as she stood in the back, watched the
show, and didn't drink.
Stated in an on-line interview that the
story about sneaking into the Roxy club
in Boston to see Moby is not true and
that she and her friends went home after
they were denied entrance.
Takes pride in the fact that she is a
role model for girls and choses roles
that are positive so that they will have
a positive role model to look up to.
Her father is a fertility specialist.
Auditioned for Little Women.
Became interested in acting after
spending three summers at the
prestigious (and expensive) Stagedoor
Manor Performing Arts Camp.
Is very close to her parents and says,
"The best part about being friends with
your parents is that no matter what you
do, they always love you."
Grew up in Syosset, Long Island, New
York, where her parents still reside.
Dated Lukas Haas. [July 2001]
Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful
People by People Magazine in 2002.
Natalie was born on her mother's 29th
birthday.
Father's name: Avner. Mother's name:
Shelley.
One of Teen People Magazine's 25 Hottest
Stars under 25 [2002]
Went to Usdan Camp for the arts as a
child.
The make-up brand Stila has a lip gloss
named after her.
As of June 2002, she has appeared on
Late Show with David Letterman, eight
times.
won the 2002 Teen's Choice Award for
choice actress in an action/adventure
film (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of
the Clones)
Voted the 15th Sexiest Female Movie Star
in the Australian Empire Magazine
September 2002.
Received her Harvard degree in June of
2003.
Has a passion for travel. In late 2003
and early 2004 she travelled alone to
Morocco and Guatemala.
Favorite actor is Ben Kingsley.
Is trained in ballet, jazz, and tap
dancing.
She has worked with a several of her
co-stars twice: Ashley Judd in Heat and
Where the Heart Is; Lukas Haas in Mars
Attacks! and Everyone Says I Love You;
'Julia Roberts' in Everyone Says I Love
You and Closer; Jude Law in Cold
Mountain and Closer; Philip Seymour
Hoffman in the play The Seagull and Cold
Mountain; John Carroll Lynch in
Beautiful Girls and Anywhere But Here.
She has also worked for director Mike
Nichols on two occasions: for the play
The Seagull and Closer.
As a young girl, she was an understudy
for the lead character in the
off-Broadway show, "Ruthless", alongside
Britney Spears. They still keep in
touch, and recently threw a party
together in New York City.
Fashion designer Zac Posen refers to her
as his "muse."
Both she and Sofia Coppola have played
the daughter of a character played by Al
Pacino, and also both appeared in a film
featuring Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Sofia Coppola was in all three Godfather
films (though she had only an uncredited
part in the 2nd), and Portman was in
Heat. Portman and Coppola appeared
together in Star Wars: Episode I - The
Phantom Menace.
Is close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal
and Bryce Dallas Howard.
She is good friends with the members of
the band Maroon 5.
Her comedic influences are Lily Tomlin
and Diane Keaton. She said in an
interview, "I love Lily Tomlin and I
love Diane Keaton. They're sort of my
heroes. Diane Keaton can do anything.
She's just the best there is."
Has a song named after her by the band
TeamSleep.
She and director Tom Tykwer became good
friends after working together on True.
She spoofed her role in Star Wars before
becoming involved in the series. In Mars
Attacks!, she gives a medal to Lukas
Haas in a scene resembling the award
ceremony at the end of Star Wars:
Episode IV - A New Hope. The medals were
given out by Princess Leia, the daughter
of Portman's future character, Queen
Amidala. In addition, the recipients of
those medals, Harrison Ford and Lukas
Haas, appeared together in Witness.
Shares a birthday with Johnny Depp and
Michael J. Fox.
Was considered for a role in
Elizabethtown. |
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Quotes - Natalie Portman
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Real Life Quotes
On Lolita: "I don't think there needs to
be a movie out where a child has sex
with an adult."
On Lolita: I think there's enough
exploitation out there that it's not
nescessary to do more.
"Young actors often don't think of the
consequences of doing nudity or sex
scenes. They want the role so badly that
they agree to be exploited, and then end
up embarassing family, friends, and even
strangers."
On acting: "I started to do this at age
11. At age 20, I might say, this is
enough."
On violence in the media: "We live in a
violent world, but since the success of
films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every
movie has some violence in it, and it's
now being used as a form of comedy:
audiences are now being encouraged to
laugh when people get their heads blown
off. I just don't like hearing people
laugh at violence."
"I also feel I'm a positive role model
by not putting my education on hold."
"I want to use college to explore what
other careers I might be interested in."
On acting: "I'm taking it day by day.
Right now I like acting, but if
something else sparks my interest in
college, I'll do that. It's so limiting
to say, this is it for the rest of my
life. There are so many things that
interest me: I love math, science,
literature, languages."
On Lolita: "Let me tell you, this
movie's going to be sleaze."
"I'm going to college. I don't care if
it ruined my career. I'd rather be smart
than a movie star."
"I don't know if acting is what I want
to do for the rest of my life, it's just
what I've, you Know, ended up doing when
I was little, and I've kinda grown up
with it."
"When I'm working they pretty much treat
me like an adult, but then when there's
a break everyone else goes to their
trailers and drinks beer and I like, go
to school."
"There's so much else to do in the
world. To just be interested in doing
films would limit my life."
"I think school is so much harder than
real life. People are so much more
accepting when they are adults."
"Danny [Aiello] told me, 'Don't do
television.'"
"Cute is when a person's personality
shines through their looks. Like in the
way they walk, every time you see them
you just want to run up and hug them."
"I've never tried smoking. I don't
drink. I've never tried drugs."
(Australian Dolly August 2000)
"Politics is easy to segue into from
acting. I'm very interested in it,
though I would never run for office. But
after this, anything I do is going to
seem very bizarre to me." (Interview
October 1999)
"No, but I've been thinking about it a
lot. I love acting, but I don't know if
there's something out there that I love
more. That's what college is going to be
about for me - checking things out."
(Interview October 1999)
When asked by Seventeen magazine what
advice she had for teenagers going off
to college she said, "I would say
practicing laundry it's so hard."
(November 1999)
"There is a lot lacking on the
intellectual side and on the values side
when being an actor." (Seventeen,
November 1999)
Told the November 1999 issue of
Mademoiselle magazine that she wished
she knew David Letterman because, "He
seems to be so smart, but you never get
to hang out with him after the show."
When asked by German Cosmopolitan (3/00)
if she would like having herself as a
daughter she replied, "Well of course. I
am a good person, nice, smart, witty,
trustworthy, know nice people, don't do
drugs and earn a lot of money." On what
she likes about her parents: "They have
made it quite clear that they believe I
can be great. Had my parents expected
less of me,I would not be the person I
am now. And I am very happy with
myself." (German Cosmopolitan March
2000)
"I'm not planning to be an actress as an
adult, I'm planning other things for my
future." Source: Venice Magazine July
1995
"I don't think I'd be able to deal with
just acting, because I don't know if you
get to use your brain that much. You do,
for certain roles, but not most. Acting
is more of a hobby for me."
"There's a big intellectual aspect
that's kind of lacking, " she says of
acting in films. "Right now I supplement
that through being in school. I'm not
sure I'd be happy if I was just acting.
I haven't explored a lot of other
avenues. Hopefully I'll figure it out by
the end of school, so I know what I want
to do with my life." |
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