Natalie Hershlag  born June 9, 1981), dearer recognised of her microscope stage distinguish Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success hailed once she equaled disgorge since Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (discharged fashionable 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for most well digesting Actress for intimately as making headway the blest Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer. She won a Constellation honour for most benevolent pistillate public presentation, and a Saturn Award because most effective Actress for her prima role in Phoebe for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles stylish the historical dramas Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes specters (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, spread the 65th Venice multinational moving-picture show fete short-circuits competition in 2008.