"[177] Portman has been an advocate of environmental causes since childhood, when she joined an environmental song and dance troupe known as World Patrol Kids. [78], Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the final installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, was Portman's first film release of 2005. [141] She next produced and starred in the western film Jane Got a Gun about a young mother seeking vengeance. Michael Fassbender, Jude Law and Bradley Cooper were all cast as the male lead, before Ewan McGregor played the part. [159] It only received a limited theatrical release and was distributed on Netflix internationally.
She played a biologist and former soldier who studies a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating organisms.
[218], Portman's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Closer (2004), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), V for Vendetta (2005), Black Swan (2010), No Strings Attached (2011), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Jackie (2016), and Annihilation (2018). She described the experience of making it as a "palate cleanser" from the intensity of her Black Swan job. [131] Her sole screen appearance that year was in Paul McCartney's music video "My Valentine", alongside Johnny Depp.
Brought up in Strathbungo, Glasgow, he attended Shawlands Academy, where he was head boy, before gaining an HNC in acting at Reid Kerr Colege, Paisley. [150][151] She also served as producer for the comedy horror film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, directed by Burr Steers, and starred in Rebecca Zlotowski's French-Belgian drama Planetarium.
[195], At Harvard, Portman wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in response to an essay critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians.
Owing to a scene in which her character is tortured, she also had her head shaved on-camera; she considered it an opportunity to rid herself of vanity. [166] She replaced the film's producer Reese Witherspoon, who backed out due to a scheduling conflict. [165] She then portrayed a psychologically troubled astronaut (based on Lisa Nowak) in the drama Lucy in the Sky, directed by Noah Hawley. [26][27] She played Mathilda, an orphan child who befriends a middle-aged hitman (played by Jean Reno). I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. | [29] Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "Portman, a budding knockout, is scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role. [97], Scarlett Johansson and Portman starred as rival sisters Mary and Anne Boleyn, respectively, in the period film The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). Natalie Portman, Actress: Black Swan.
She was initially intimidated to take on the part of a well-known public figure,[145] and eventually researched Kennedy extensively by watching videos of her, reading books, and listening to audiotapes of her interviews. [57], Portman's sole screen appearance in 2000 was in Where the Heart Is, a romantic drama filmed in Texas, in which she played a pregnant teenager.
Just like the way they write the male character. Early life. "[216], In 2010, Portman signed on with Dior and appeared in several of the company's advertising campaigns. [200], In January 2018, she donated $50,000 to the Time's Up initiative. [21] She turned down the offer but used the opportunity to get an acting agent. [22][59] In the summer of 2001, she returned to Broadway (at the Delacorte Theater) to perform Chekhov's drama The Seagull, which was directed by Mike Nichols and co-starred Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag;[a] June 9, 1981) is an actress and filmmaker with dual Israeli and American citizenship. [124][125] In her final film release of 2011, Portman took on the part of Jane Foster, a scientist and love-interest of the titular character (played by Chris Hemsworth) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Thor. [103], A poorly received adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, entitled The Other Woman, marked Portman's first film role of 2009.
[62] The following year, she reprised her role of Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which she had filmed in Sydney and London during her summer break of 2000. In 2004 and 2005, she traveled to Uganda, Guatemala, and Ecuador as the Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, an organization that promotes micro-lending to help finance women-owned businesses in developing countries. [35][36] Impressed by her performance in The Professional, the director Ted Demme cast her as a precocious teenager who flirts with her much-older neighbor (played by Timothy Hutton) in the ensemble comedy-drama Beautiful Girls (1996). She was drawn to the provocative nature of the script, and worked with a dialect coach to speak in a British accent. [13][69][70], Portman began 2004 by featuring in the romantic comedy Garden State, written and directed by its star Zach Braff. [12][16] She studied ballet and modern dance at the American Theater Dance Workshop, and regularly attended the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The ASA ruled that the photographs of Portman "misleadingly exaggerated the likely effects of the product". [21] She was also offered Adrian Lyne's Lolita, based on the novel of the same name, but she turned down the part due to its excessive sexual content. Daniel was born in Glasgow on 13 February 1992 and is the son of the actor Ron Donachie. Her role was that of a war widow, for which she interacted with military wives.
[183], Portman is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and for the 2004 presidential election she campaigned for the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry. [12] Describing her early life, Portman has said that she was "different from the other kids. Her parents were reluctant to let her do the part due to the explicit sexual and violent nature of the script, but agreed after Besson took out the nudity and killings committed by Portman's character. 2017). [87] Later that year, she starred in Miloš Forman's Goya's Ghosts, about the painter Francisco Goya. [114] Black Swan emerged as a sleeper hit, earning over $329 million worldwide against a $13 million budget, and earned Portman the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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