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  Natalie Portman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portman's father's family are descendants of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania, while her mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Austria and Russia; her paternal grandfather's parents died in Auschwitz and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a spy for the British during World War II.
Portman is an only child and very close to her parents, who are often seen with her at her film premieres; her mother always accompanied pre-adult Portman to filming locations.
Portman, still only 14 years old and having never seen the original three Star Wars films, was speculative at first about the commitment she was making and what impact it would have on her life, as the role would ultimately see her participate in three films over the course of a decade.
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 AskMen.com - Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman's star qualities are so obvious, particularly since her award-winning role in Closer, that she has every Hollywood producer knocking at her door.
Natalie Portman is a heavyweight in the making (for all those asleep at the wheel, we're not talking about boxing here); a future Julia Roberts with the potential of becoming a perennial Meryl Streep-like yearly Oscar contender.
Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel.
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 Natalie Portman Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And, of course, there's Natalie Portman, who began her career in two of the hardest-hitting films of the mid-Nineties (Leon and Heat), then acquitted herself well in comedy, ensemble pieces and high drama before starring as the regal love interest in George Lucas's 3-part prequel to the Star Wars trilogy.
Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem on the 9th of June, 1981.
Natalie's classmates, on the other hand, were not keen to have a star in their midst, making her life something of a misery.
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 Natalie Portman Page of Pride Natalie Portman Pictures
Natalie Portman says she would be least offended if she saw stills grabbed from her nude scenes in her new movie Closer on the internet.
Natalie Portman - whose poise and talent often make her seem older than her years - has finally come into her own as an adult actress.
Natalie Portman's role in Anywhere But Here was re-written because she refused a nude love scene with Corbin Allred.
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 UK Natalie Portman
Natalie was born in Jerusalem (Israel) on the 9th June 1981, where she lived until she was 3.
Natalie has been a strict vegetarian since the age of 8 (apparently since witnessing an experiment on a chicken performed by her father at a conference).
Portman is her stage name, which happens to be her maternal grandmother’s maiden name.
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 The Natalie Portman Picture Pages
Natalie Hershlag (Natalie Portman) was born in Jerusalem, Israel on June 9, 1981 to parents Avnir and Shelley.
Natalie prefers her privacy, maintains a healthy lifestyle and places education as a high priority of her life.
Natalie Portman's film career began with the role of Mathilda in the 1994 drama The Professional.
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 Natalie Portman - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
Natalie Hershlag (born June 9, 1981 in West Jerusalem, Israel), better known under her stage name Natalie Portman (Portman being her Grandmother's maiden name), is an Israeli-American actor.
When Natalie was three years old her family moved from Israel to the United States for her father to pursue his medical training.
Natalie was a child actor who performed in local troupes and dreamed of dancing on Broadway.
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 º º Natalie Portman : Movies Point
Natalie Portman was born on 9th June 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel, as the only child of a doctor father and an artist mother, who also acts as Natalie's agent.
As a toddler Natalie immigrated to the United States with her parents at the tender age of three and then on to Connecticut when she was seven.
In her early teens, at the age of 11, Natalie was discovered in a pizza parlor by a Revlon agent.
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 Natalie Portman: From A(midala) to V - ComingSoon.net
Portman: Obviously, at the moment, I was in the character's position and for the character, it's a very traumatic point; it's a very different thing to have that forced upon you violently as opposed to me getting to make the decision in my own life to do it.
Portman: Hugo is just an incredible actor, so even though he had that barrier of not being able to use his face, which we're so used to using as film actors, he was able to use his physicality and his voice to really create a specific character.
Portman: I think the luck of having it take place in an imaginary future is that it sort of respects the audience to make their own connections to real historical and current events.
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 Natalie Portman @ Filmbug
Portman recently starred in the final installment of George Lucas' second Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, with Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor.
Portman won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in Mike Nichols' big-screen adaptation of Patrick Marber's Broadway hit Closer.
Starring opposite Jean Reno and Gary Oldman, Portman played Mathilde, a young girl who seeks refuge from a hitman after her parents are killed by a corrupt DEA officer.
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 Natalie Portman
When it comes to entertainment, Natalie Portman may always be best known as Queen Amidala in the Star Wars series of films, and it's very possible that that won't bother her.
Portman began acting at the age of 12 after being discovered in a pizza parlor by an agent looking for a child model.
Natalie Portman: Actress Natalie Portman was mistaken for a criminal recently in New York City because of her shaven head.
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 SFGate: Daily Dish : Natalie Portman
Portman watched Bell in concert at New York City's Lincoln Center on Sunday before enjoying a private dinner party with the musician and her parents at SushiSamba Park, according to the New York Daily News.
Portman will bare all in the biopic on Spanish painter Francisco Goya, in which she plays the artist's muse, who is accused of atheism and then stripped as torture, reports Page Six.
The film stars Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving against the terrifying backdrop of bombings on the London underground, but producers are refusing to re-edit the scenes that closely mimic recent murderous events in the city.
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 Natalie Portman News
Natalie Portman is in the process of auditioning for the role of a troubled hooker for the new movie, "Johnny Postal." Additionally, she will appear nude in her most recent film, "Goya's Ghosts," a historical...
Rated: R Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, John Hurt and Stephen Rea Time: 132 minutes Summary: In this movie based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Britain is ruled by a totalitarian government.
While most of us are trying to avoid the heat by sitting right next to our air conditioners, and Lindsay Lohan is playing on the beach in her bikini, Natalie Portman is hitting the slopes in Patagonia,...
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 Natalie Portman Biography
Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel as the only child of a Doctor (father) and an artist (mother, who also acts as Natalie's agent).
Natalie left Israel for Washington when she was still very young.
Natalie next starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas Anywhere But Here (1999), and Where the Heart Is (2000).
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 Natalie Portman Beyond Beauty - Evey in V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman became a vegetarian at age eight and still is...
May 16th, 2005 - Natalie Portman appeared at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for the screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith along with director George Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, and Anthony Daniels.
Natalie Portman is nominated for Best Female Performance and Best Kiss, so be sure to support her and cast your vote!
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 Natalie Portman in Relationships: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Portman was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role as Ann August in Anywhere But Here.
Portman spends some of her free time involved in causes such as financing small-scale women's projects in Africa and the Democrats' 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.
Portman shaved her head for the film adaption of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, in which she plays Evey Hammond, the young woman the main character, V, saves from the secret police.
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 Natalie Portman Trivia
Susan Sarandon who had co-star approval, said she couldn't continue the movie without Portman, so the script was re-written without the scene and sent to Natalie, and she accepted.
Natalie Portman and actor Bart DeFinna grew up in the same neighborhood.
Natalie was born on her mother's 29th birthday.
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 Natalie Portman, Natalie Portman nude, Natalie Portman pics, Natalie Portman "Closer"
Born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1981, Natalie’s family left for the United States when she was only three years old after he doctor father was offered a residency at a Maryland hospital.
Within two quick years Natalie had become one of the youngest stars on the red carpet, but she failed to climb the Hollywood ladder when she turned down an important role in “Lolita” (due to the sexual tones of the film) and was denied “Romeo and Juliet” because of her age difference to Leo.
More recently, Natalie wowed audiences in the Oscar-nominated "Cold Mountain," and then went on to co-star in the Zach Braff-directed film, "Garden State," giving one of the best performances of the year and of her short career.
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 Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman's story about how she started her film career sounds like the old hanging-out-in-Schwab's-drugstore-in-Hollywood-waiting-to-be-discovered cliché.
Natalie then turned down a role in Anywhere But Here (1999) because of a nude scene, but Susan Sarandon, who had co-star approval, asked that the scene be rewritten for Portman.
Natalie went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her work in the film.
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 Star Wars: Biography | Natalie Portman
An actress with a talent and poise beyond her years, Natalie Portman has established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented and sought after young actresses.
Next Portman would become famous worldwide in her role as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which she would continue throughout the prequels -- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005).
In addition to her acting accolades, Portman graduated with a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard University in 2003.
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 Natalie Portman .org .. your online source for Natalie Portman ..
Natalie’s controversial film has actually held quite strongly over the spring break season despite dumping theaters every week, and despite a boycott by the misinformed but influential.
Natalie showed off her ensemble stage talents and mean rap chops during her comedic appearance as host of Saturday Night Live on March 4.
Natalie attended the premiere of V for Vendetta at the Berlin Film Festival.
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 AbsoluteNow: : Natalie Portman Pictures
Natalie Portman and Liam Neeson at the New York premiere of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" at Loews Astor Plaza in New York City.
Actress NATALIE PORTMAN at the 18th Annual American Cinematheque Gala honoring Nicole Kidman.
Actress NATALIE PORTMAN at the Los Angeles premiere of her new movie Cold Mountain.
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 Natalie Portman | Actresses | Movie Forum
Natalie Portman was not that kind of child actor, and as an adult should have a long and successful career ahead of her.
Natalie Portman is one of a very few child or teenage actors who has the potential to be around in Hollywood and in films for many years to come.
It is unlikely that she will be disappearing as fast as those annoying ten-year-olds with their pudding bowl haircuts, due mostly to her ability to make her roles believable, when in the hands of another actress, they might be stereotypes.
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 Natalie Portman . Com - Main / News
There are several scenes with Natalie in the trailer, as well as a few Goya's paintings with her actual face on them.
Natalie has autographed a number of Star Wars items and they will be going on auction in a few days.
Portman watched Bell in concert at New York City's Lincoln Center on Sunday (20AUG06) before enjoying a private dinner party with the musician and her parents at SushiSamba Park, according to the New York Daily News.
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 natalie portman .org .. november & december 2005 updates ..
Alan Moore's graphic novel is adapted perfectly for the big screen and Natalie Portman knocks it out of the park with a performance of bravery and passion.
Natalie Portman does well with the Evey role, but Stephen Fry was the standout for me as Gordon Dietrich.
Natalie poses with Luís Chillida who guided her on a small tour through the museum, so she could enjoy the place and learn about the work of his father.
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