Natalie Portman is a famous American actress, producer, screenwriter and director. She is the owner of many prestigious film awards, such as the Oscars, BAFTA, Golden Globes and Saturn.
The beginning of the film career Natalie Portman
The surname Herzschlag is translated from Hebrew as "heart beat". The actress’s creative pseudonym, Portman, is her maternal grandmother’s maiden name.
Natalie Herzshlag 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 contest and signed her first contract - for Revlon perfume advertising.
A year later, Natalie took part in screenings for the role of the young heroine of the cult film "Leon" (Leon) of the famous French director Luc Besson. Portman was not immediately approved for this role, but she more than justified 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”, where her partners were Al Pacino and Robert de Niro; with Tedd Demme in Beautiful Girls, for which she was nominated for several prestigious film awards at once; the great Woody Allen in "Everyone Says I Love You" (Everyone Says I Love You); and Tim Burton in the parody "Mars attacks!" (Mars Attacks!).
Biography Natalie Portman
Natalie brilliantly graduated from high school and entered Harvard at the Department of Psychology. She combines studies at a prestigious university with work in the cinema. In 1999, Portman starred in George Lucas' science fiction epic Star Wars. The Phantom Menace, followed by work on two more episodes of the epic: Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, which added to the actress's popularity.
In 2004, Portman played with the patriarch of American cinema Mike Nichols in the movie Closer, where Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen became her partners. For the role of stripper Alice in "Intimacy, " Natalie Portman was nominated for an Oscar and received the Golden Globe in the nomination for Best Supporting Role.
In 2011, the actress also obeyed the prestigious Oscar, which she was given for the role of the obsessed party of Odile ballerina in the film "Black Swan" Darren Aronofsky. This work also brought her another Golden Globe.
In 2008, Natalie Portman became the youngest member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival.
In total, Natalie Portman's filmography includes about 50 films, including "My Blueberry Nights", "Another Other Boleyn Girl", "Goya's Ghosts", "Love and Other Circumstances "(Love and Other Impossible Pursuits). In 8 films, she acted as a producer, for 3 films she wrote the script and shot them as a director.
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