Natalie Portman Biography

Natalie Portman is the busy actress and director who won the best actress Oscar as for the 2010 film Black Swan.

Natalie Portman first made her mark in coming-of-age roles in the mid-1990s, playing smart-but-vulnerable doe-eyed kids in The Professional (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996), and also appearing in Heat (1995, with Al Pacino) and Mars Attacks (1996, with Jack Nicholson). Her talent landed her in Woody Allen‘s movie Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and on Broadway she starred as Anne Frank in a 1997 revival of The Diary of Anne Frank.

Portman then took a very high-profile role as Queen Amidala in the George Lucas film Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) and its sequels Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Also in 1999, Portman began undergraduate studies at Harvard University; she graduated in 2003.

Her other films include the Zach Braff feature Garden State (2004), the adult drama Closer (2004, with Clive Owen), V for Vendetta (2005, based on the comic book by Alan Moore), Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007, starring Dustin Hoffman), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008, with Portman as Queen Anne Boleyn), the superhero flick Thor (2011), the Terrence Malick drama Knight of Cups (2015) and Jackie (2016, with Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy).

Natalie Portman was 29 when she won her first Oscar, playing a maybe-crazy ballerina in Darren Aronofsky‘s psychodrama Black Swan. In 2015 she directed her her first feature, the drama A Tale of Love and Darkness.