[135] The following year, she reprised the role of Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World, which earned over $644 million worldwide to emerge as the 10th highest-grossing film of 2013. Damit Verizon Media und unsere Partner Ihre personenbezogenen Daten verarbeiten können, wählen Sie bitte 'Ich stimme zu.' She has since made her mark in Hollywood and is engaged to Ashton Kutcher. [174] More recently, she and her production partner Sophie Mas formed MountainA with a first look deal at Apple+. Prolific in film since a teenager, she has starred in blockbusters and also played psychologically troubled women in independent films, for which she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. [47] Portman was unfamiliar with the franchise when she was cast, and watched the original Star Wars trilogy before filming began. She impressed V For Vendetta crew members with her German skills. [40] Also in 1996, Portman had brief roles in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You and Tim Burton's comic science fiction film Mars Attacks!. After falling in love with the language watching Chariots of Fire, Bradley made it his mission to add “fluent in French” to his list of talents and studied for six months in Aix-en-Provence. In it she played a young girl coping with her mother's (played by Frances Conroy) cancer. In 2004 and 2005, she traveled to Uganda, Guatemala, and Ecuador as the Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, an organization that promotes micro-lending to help finance women-owned businesses in developing countries. "[68][69] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy". 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I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. [105] It is about a young woman who goes to her grandmother's romantic date, and Portman drew inspiration for the older character (played by Lauren Bacall) from her own grandmother. She also learned Spanish, French and Italian later in life. [11][12][13], Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to Connecticut in 1988 and then moved to Long Island[14] in 1990. It earned over $848 million to rank as the second-highest-grossing film of the year. As incentives for the contest winner, Portman offered the designer Rodarte dress she wore to the premiere of Black Swan, along with tickets to her next premiere. [14] Describing her early life, Portman has said that she was "different from the other kids. Besides learning the romance languages Italian, Spanish, and French he also speaks Greek and some Russian, Latin, German, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. In Hispanic countries, she is most well known for these movies. Ramsay did not turn up on set for the first day of filming and was eventually replaced with Gavin O'Connor. [22], When Portman was ten years old, a Revlon agent spotted her at a pizza restaurant and asked her to become a child model. [223], In 2010, Portman signed on with Dior and appeared in several of the company's advertising campaigns. [81], Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the final installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, was Portman's first film release of 2005. [155][156] The 2017 experimental romance Song to Song marked Portman's second collaboration with Terrence Malick, which like their previous film polarized critics. Natalie’s first dog, that we know about, was a Poodle-Schnauzer called Noodles. I was more ambitious. 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Born in the Ukraine, she moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was just seven. [212], Portman is married to French danseur and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children, son Aleph (b. See Paltrow speak Spanish. [215] The couple began dating in 2009, after having met while working together on the set of Black Swan,[216] and wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on August 4, 2012. [106], A poorly received adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, entitled The Other Woman, marked Portman's first film role of 2009. [219][220] They currently reside in Los Angeles. Just like the way they write the male character. [25] To protect her privacy, she adopted her paternal grandmother's maiden name, Portman, as her stage name. The first sentence of her college motivational letter read as the following, “Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven.” That’s how she felt when she first moved to the US. [56] Following production on The Phantom Menace, Portman initially turned down a lead role in the coming-of-age film Anywhere but Here (1999) after learning it would involve a sex scene, but director Wayne Wang and actress Susan Sarandon (who played Portman's mother in the film) demanded a rewrite of the script. [189], Portman is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and for the 2004 presidential election she campaigned for the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry. Initially scheduled to be directed by Lynne Ramsay, the production was plagued with numerous difficulties. Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Palestine. She was fluent in … [95] Richard Corliss of Time magazine believed that "for once she's not playing a waif or a child princess but a mature, full-bodied woman" and commended her "vibrancy, grittiness and ache, all performed with a virtuosa's easy assurance". [42][43] Reviewing the production for Variety, Greg Evans disliked her portrayal, which he thought had "little of the charm, budding genius or even brittle intelligence that the diary itself reveals". [171], Portman will next reprise her role as Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder, which is scheduled for release in 2022. She liked the idea of Kenneth Branagh directing a big-budget film that emphasized character; she signed on to it before receiving a script, and helped develop her part by reading the biography of scientists such as Rosalind Franklin. However, the movie comes in its original English language and subtitles. "[39] She subsequently went back to Stagedoor Manor to appear in a production of the musical Cabaret. [179][180] She does not wear animal products and has praised animal-friendly products designed by Stella McCartney and Target. [134] Her sole screen appearance that year was in Paul McCartney's music video "My Valentine", alongside Johnny Depp. [96] Her next appearance was in Hotel Chevalier, a short film from Wes Anderson, which served as a prologue to his feature The Darjeeling Limited (in which Portman had a cameo). She was initially intimidated to take on the part of a well-known public figure,[148] and eventually researched Kennedy extensively by watching videos of her, reading books, and listening to audiotapes of her interviews. Discovered : At age 11, by a Revlon model scout in a Long Island pizza parlor. Portman continued to grow her multilingual talents as an adult and decided to learn Spanish while starring in Goya’s Ghosts. [63] Linda Winer of Newsday wrote that the "major surprises come from Portman, whose Nina transforms with astonishing lyricism from the girl with ambition to Chekhov's most difficult symbol of destruction". [195] During WE Day California 2019 Portman gave a pro vegan speech in front of the student audience, linking vegan lifestyle and feminism. LEONARDO DICAPRIO [36] Michael Mann offered her the small part of the suicidal stepdaughter of Al Pacino's character in the action film Heat (1995) for her ability to portray dysfunction without hysteria. Host Fareed Zakaria said that he was "generally wary of celebrities with fashionable causes", but included the segment with Portman because "she really knew her stuff". 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