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Natalie Portman is an American actress noted for her roles as Queen Padmé Amidala in Star Wars and Dr. Jane Foster in Thor. She was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1981 and later moved to Long Island, New York where she grew up. She studied at Harvard University where she earned a degree in psychology, and in 2010 she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the Swan Queen in Black Swan. She and her husband, dancer Benjamin Millepied have a son.

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14 May, 2015

Stars as Jackie

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During a Cannes Music Festival appearance, Variety reports that Portman will star as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie, about the first four days of the first lady’s life after the assassination of her husband, President John. F. Kennedy. Aronofsky will produce the film.

8 May, 2015

Cast as Ginsburg

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Portman is set to play Ginsburg in On The Basis Of Sex. The script, which follows the Ginsburg as she faces numerous obstacles to her fight for equal rights throughout her career.

4 Aug, 2012

Portman, Millepied marry

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Portman weddingAfter a two-year engagement, the actress marries French dancer Benjamin Millepied in a Jewish ceremony in Big Sur, California. Among the guests are friends Ivanka Trump and Macaulay Culkin. The couple met on the set of Black Swan where Millipied choreographed the ballet sequences.

Being with a Frenchman, I can now obtain French nationality, which wasn’t an option for me. It would be the fulfillment of our Francophile dreams, my father and myself.

14 Jun, 2011

Aleph Portman-Millepied born in France

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Portman babyPortman and fiancé Benjamin Millepied welcome their first child Aleph into the world.

My back is not feeling great right now, sitting for so long. But everything’s really great otherwise.

9 Jun, 1981

Natalie Portman born in Jerusalem

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Natalie Portman ChildNatalie Portman, originally Natalie Hershlag, is born in Jerusalem to American Shelley Stevens and Israeli doctor Avner Hershlag. She and her family moved to the United States in 1984. She spends most of her childhood in New York, where she enrolled in theatrical camps and ballet classes.

As a child, I idealized ballet because, as a little girl, you just think of it as this pretty, light, delicate and feminine thing.