


To protect her privacy, she adopted her paternal grandmother's maiden name, Portman, as her stage name.
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Six months after Ruthless! ended, Portman auditioned for and secured a leading role in Luc Besson's action drama Léon: The Professional (1994). Career 1994–1998: Early work and acting background Portman and Britney Spears were chosen as understudies for star Laura Bell Bundy. She auditioned for the 1992 off-Broadway Ruthless!, a musical about a girl who is prepared to commit murder to get the lead in a school play. She turned down the offer but used the opportunity to get an acting agent. When Portman was ten years old, a Revlon agent spotted her at a pizza restaurant and asked her to become a child model. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. Describing her early life, Portman has said that she was "different from the other kids. She studied ballet and modern dance at the American Theater Dance Workshop, and regularly attended the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. While living on Long Island, she attended a Jewish elementary school, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland. While living in Washington Portman attended Charles E. Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to Connecticut in 1988 and then moved to Long Island in 1990. Her maternal grandparents were American Jews, whereas her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants to Israel. She is the only child of Shelley ( née Stevens), an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born gynecologist. Natalie Herschlag was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, to Jewish parents with roots in Poland, Austria, and Russia.


2.1 1994–1998: Early work and acting background.She is married to dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children. She is vocal about the politics of the United States and Israel, and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015). Portman has also featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), which established her as one of the world's highest-paid actresses. She went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011) and portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. Portman's career further advanced with her starring roles as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2004, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in the romantic drama Closer. She reduced her number of acting roles, but continued to act in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002, 2005) and in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology. While in high school, she made her Broadway debut in a 1998 production of The Diary of a Young Girl and gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Portman began her acting career at age twelve, when she starred as the young protégée of a hitman in the action drama film Léon: The Professional (1994). She has had an extensive career in film since her teenage years and starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag, Hebrew: נטע-לי הרשלג, ( )June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-born American actress.
