Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag, June 9, 1981) is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon: The Professional, opposite Jean Reno. She was later cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).
Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace while still at high school on Long Island. In 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress; she completed a bachelor's degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and opened in New York City's The Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 2001.
Portman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for starring in the 2004 drama Closer, appeared in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith the following year, and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and also appeared in Thor (2011) and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the psychological thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award and the BFCA Award in 2011. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie. She was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. The same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, was released in 2015.
Acted in
From Coventry to Colorado
2025
as Inspector Wendy Fry
Lady in the Lake
2024
as Maddie Schwartz
May December
2023
as Elizabeth
Angel City
2023
as Self
Secrets of the Elephants
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Image Book
2023
as Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
as Self - Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
as Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
What If...?
2021
as Jane Foster (voice)
One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Jane Foster (archive footage)
Lucy in the Sky
2019
as Lucy Cola
This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Jane Foster
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
as Sam Turner
Bluey
2018
as Whale Doco Narrator (voice)
Vox Lux
2018
as Celeste Montgomery
Annihilation
2018
as Lena
Song to Song
2017
as Rhonda
Jackie
2016
as Jackie Kennedy
Planetarium
2016
as Laura Barlow
Angie Tribeca
2016
as Christina Craft
Jane Got a Gun
2015
as Jane Hammond
Knight of Cups
2015
as Elizabeth
A Tale of Love and Darkness
2015
as Fania Oz
The Blackened Mantle
2015
as Padmé Amidala
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
as Laura
Thor: The Dark World
2013
as Jane Foster
Illusions & Mirrors
2013
as Young Woman
Honest Trailers
2012
as Padmé Amidala (archive footage)
Honest Trailers
2012
as Jane Foster (archive footage)
Thor
2011
as Jane Foster
Your Highness
2011
as Isabel
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011
as Self
No Strings Attached
2011
as Emma Kurtzman
Black Swan
2010
as Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen
The Other Woman
2010
as Emilia Greenleaf
I'm Still Here
2010
as Natalie Portman
Hesher
2010
as Nicole
Brothers
2009
as Grace Cahill
New York, I Love You
2008
as Rifka
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Anne Boleyn
My Blueberry Nights
2007
as Leslie
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007
as Molly Mahoney
Hotel Chevalier
2007
as Jack's Girlfriend
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Inés Bilbatúa / Alicia
Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Francine (Faubourg Saint-Denis)
The Armenian Genocide
2006
as Aurora Mardiganian (voice)
V for Vendetta
2006
as Evey
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Padmé Amidala
Free Zone
2005
as Rebecca
Domino One
2005
as Dominique Bellamy
Closer
2004
as Alice Ayres
Garden State
2004
as Sam
True
2004
as Francine
Cold Mountain
2003
as Sara
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Padmé Amidala
Zoolander
2001
as Natalie Portman
Where the Heart Is
2000
as Novalee Nation
Anywhere but Here
1999
as Ann August
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Padmé Amidala
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Taffy Dale
Everyone Says I Love You
1996
as Laura Dandridge
Beautiful Girls
1996
as Marty
Heat
1995
as Lauren Gustafson
Léon: The Professional
1994
as Mathilda Lando
Developing
1994
as Nina
The Simpsons
1989
as Darcy (voice)
Sesame Street
1969
as Natalie
Bronco Belle
as Raylene Jackson
Foxy Trotter
as Ronnie
Fountain of Youth
The Twits
as (voice)