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Born in Israel on June 9, 1981, and best known as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequels, she has since moved on to other notable roles and even two Academy Award nominations—one of which she won (Best Actress for her role in Black Swan). Not to be confused with Keira Knightley, who looks a bit like her (and played a body double of her character in The Phantom Menace).
Her Films:[]
- Léon: The Professional (1994)
- Heat (1995)
- Beautiful Girls (1996)
- Mars Attacks (Film)! (1996)
- The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy as Padmé Amidala
- The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Where the Heart Is (2000)
- Zoolander (2001) (cameo)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- Garden State (2004)
- Closer (2004)
- V for Vendetta (2006)
- Goya's Ghosts (2006)
- Paris Je T'Aime (2006) (in a short film)
- Hotel Chevalier (2007) (short film companion piece to The Darjeeling Limited, she also has a very brief cameo in the latter)
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
- New York I Love You (2009) (also in a short film)
- The Other Woman (2009)
- Brothers (2009)
- Hesher (2010)
- Black Swan (2010)
- No Strings Attached (2011)
- Your Highness (2011)
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe as Dr. Jane Foster
- Thor (2011)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019, through archive footage)
- Alternate versions of Jane in What If?... (2021)
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
- A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
- Knight of Cups (2015)
- Jane Got A Gun (2016)
- Planetarium (2016)
- Jackie (2016)
- Song to Song (2017, filmed in 2012)
- Annihilation (2018)
- Vox Lux (2018)
- Lucy in the Sky (once called Pale Blue Dot) (2019)
Tropes used in Natalie Portman include:
- Academy Award: Won for Black Swan, nominated for Closer.
- Action Girl: In several of her best-known roles, including Mathilda in Léon: The Professional and Padmé in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, she proves to be really handy with a gun.
- Adorkable
- Brainy Brunette: She is a Harvard University graduate with an IQ of 140 and wrote two essays there titled "A Simple Method To Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar" and "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"
- Breather Episode/Lighter and Softer: The kid-oriented, G-rated Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is this for her after the rather graphically violent and dramatic V for Vendetta, and before the biopic The Other Boleyn Girl. She never did another kid-oriented film after that.
- Her Sesame Street stints could also qualify.
- After Black Swan, Natalie went for a Lighter and Softer break by starring in the comedies No Strings Attached and Your Highness, as well as the slightly more dramatically serious superhero films Thor and Thor: The Dark World, in which case, were more lighter as those two were given a PG-13 rating compared to the former two, which were rated R. Then she went back into completely serious acting in A Tale of Love and Darkness, which was about genocide, and also proving her badass directing skills along the way.
- Hey, remember when she played a Manic Pixie Dream Girl with a good sense of humor... in a dramedy?
- Celebrity Resemblance: Keira Knightley, who played Padmé's decoy in The Phantom Menace. Apparently, even their mothers couldn't tell them apart with their ceremonial makeup on.
- Character Tics: According to the article "The Beautiful Mind", Natalie has a habit of playing with her toes during an interview.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Wait, what?
- Creator Backlash:
- Admits she's not the biggest fan of the The Phantom Menace.
- Was not fond of Thor: The Dark World to the point that it took her nine years to return to the MCU.
- Cryptic Conversation / Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Used as a joke in an Inside The Actors Studio issue, where she said a line in Hebrew (at around 4:43) and then, when asked of its meaning, playfully answered: "It's for me to know and you to find out". Since then, people on the Internet have been asking about it. (If you want to know, what she said is: In a month, I'm going to Israel to study at the University.) Besides, she mentioned in an interview that she likes using Hebrew as a Secret Language.
- Darker and Edgier: Black Swan. And she pulls it off, winning a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, which was about genocide, also became this for Portman as she starred in an PG-13 rated drama after a Lighter and Softer break starring in two R-rated comedies (No Strings Attached, Your Highness) and two PG-13 rated superhero films (Thor, Thor: The Dark World, which were also kind of dramatic but not as dramatic as A Tale of Love and Darkness)
- Vox Lux is Portman's most cynical work to date.
- Denser and Wackier: When she appeared and rapped twice on Saturday Night Live.
- Dyeing for Your Art: She had her head shaved on camera for V for Vendetta, and lost 20 pounds to play a ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She generates a lot If It's You It's Okay girl-crushes among her fellow actresses.
- Foot Focus: If Natalie's ever barefoot in a scene, expect close-ups of her feet.
- Former Child Star: Averted, as she is even more successful now than as a child actor.
- Identical Stranger: With Keira Knightley.
- Ivy League: Portman is a Harvard graduate.
- Jewish And Nerdy: She is of American-Israeli Jewish descent and is very smart.
- The Ladette: See Cluster F-Bomb above.
- Like Is, Like, a Comma: She often punctuates her sentences with "like".
- Ms. Fanservice: Some of her films showcase her beauty such as Attack of the Clones where her white outift is torn a bit by a Nexu and thus show her stomach/tummy, Closer in which she played a stripper wearing a purple bra and thong and a pink wig and Hotel Chevalier in which she was naked during the sex scene. Although she swore doing nude scenes after Hotel Chevalier nonetheless she would do one in Planetarium where she was naked on a Paris, France beach and splashed with water while sunbathing.
- One of Us: She has a bachelor's in psychology from Harvard and has taken graduate courses at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has published two papers (one in organic chemistry from when she was in high school and one in neuropsychology from when she was in college). And she speaks six languages: she's fluent in English and Hebrew, and has studied German, French, Japanese, and Arabic.
- She's one of the few people in the world to have a Erdos-Bacon number — where her scholarly work can be linked to mathematician Paul Erdos AND her film work linked to Kevin Bacon. She has a Erdos-Bacon number of 6.
- Pretty in Mink: Has occasionally worn fur, although fake (and she has a puppy in that gallery).
- Romance on the Set: During the making of Black Swan, Natalie started a relationship with film's choreographer Benjamin Millepied. Currently they're engaged and have a child together.
- Which is Hilarious in Hindsight once you see Black Swan, as he's the "would you **** this girl" guy.
- Slasher Smile: Ha! A cute actress like Natalie can't possibly do th... OH MY GOD...
- Well, seeing as she was praised for her performance in Black Swan, this probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
- Stage Name: Her original name is Natalie Hershlag. Portman was her grandmother's maiden name.
- We Used to Be Friends: To her shame, she was once friends with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner before he became, in her own words, "a supervillain".