Actress Natalie Portman is one of the few Hollywood stars who has become famous for notable roles and creative successes, not scandals from her personal life and provocative behavior. She seems to be standing at a distance from the star party and the notorious social life, focused only on her development and implementation of projects. So where did Natalie's creative success begin and what plans does the actress make for the future?
Height and Weight Natalie Portman
Externally, Natalie Portman looks like another Hollywood star - Keira Knightley. Girls are constantly compared with each other, but they differ from each other not only in facial features, but also in parameters: Natalie Portman is 160 cm tall and Keira Knightley is 170 cm. Natalie's weight is about 52 kg, but for some projects, such as, for example, "Black Swan", the actress lost weight to the level of 43 kg. Portman’s chest volume is 86 cm (which corresponds to I size), waist - 63 cm, and hips - 89 cm. Leg size - 39. Natalie Portman’s height and weight are in a harmonious ratio, which allows her to be considered one of the most attractive women in Hollywood. Gemini actress by the zodiac sign.
Family, childhood
Few people know that Natalie's real name is Hershlag. The girl was born in June 1981 in Israel. Her father is a doctor who successfully implements medical practice in the field of gynecology. Mother Portman was a housewife until the moment her daughter began to act in films, then she turned into her personal agent. There were Russian, Romanian, and Polish Jews in the Khershlagov clan.
After the Hershlagov family moved to the USA in 1984, she changed her place of residence more than once: first, the future actress lived in Washington, then in Long Island. Natalie studied only in Jewish general education institutions, so she speaks Hebrew well. From the age of 4, the girl showed interest in figure skating and choreography. At 8, Natalie witnessed experiments on chicken and seriously stated that she would be a vegetarian from now on. Natalie admitted that she was a “nerd” at school - she liked to study, and she devoted all her time to it. Even before filming a movie, she once received an offer from the agency to start a modeling career, but found this occupation frivolous.
The first steps in an acting career
Although Natalie Portman's height is small, it has never been an obstacle in her stunning career. Moreover, Portman played the first serious role in the movie at the age of 13 with the famous director
Luc Besson. The movie was warmly received by little Natalie Portman: immediately the main role, the partner - the famous French actor (Jean Reno), a good fee. But the Natalie family took their reputation and personal space seriously, so she suggested that the director not indicate the real name of the girl, but the name of her Jewish-Russian grandmother - Portman.
After Leon, Natalie’s talent was not even disputed, so she began to receive offers to act in films one after another. The next work of the actress becomes a short film "Development". And in 1995, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appeared on Portman’s list of stage partners in the Scramble project. In 1996, Portman starred in Woody Allen himself.
The Age of Star Wars
Filming in the cult picture of George Lucas "Star Wars" for Natalie began in 1999 and lasted until 2005. The height and weight of Natalie Portman, as well as her acting talent, helped the girl to embody the image of the exotic
Princess Padme Amidala on the screen
. It is noteworthy that Natalie was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for her work in this project - it is unpleasant, but this did not stop the picture from collecting $ 924.3 million at the box office. After the film was released, Natalie admitted in an interview that she was already thinking about leaving the acting career, but after such a fantastic role, she will not be able to work as a lawyer or doctor.
Portman had to combine shooting in the second part of the "star" movie saga with his studies at the university. It was not easy, because you had to be distracted from the educational process by traveling to Australia, Tunisia, Spain and Italy. Filming in this picture firmly cemented the position of Natalie at the Hollywood star Olympus.
Studying at the University
Natalie Portman was able to suspend the rapid development of her career for several years in order to obtain a diploma from Harvard University. The actress studied psychology. True, in parallel, she continued to star in Star Wars, as the contract had already been signed, but Portman had studied textbooks the rest of the time. During the training, she managed to take part in two studies: The case of Israel (together with a lawyer Alan Dershowitz) and “Activity of the frontal lobe of the brain with object constancy”. But the Harvard bachelor’s diploma didn’t make the girl stop, and she continued her studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After that, the actress was even invited to Columbia University to give several lectures.
Rapid career development
The height and weight of Natalie Portman, as well as harmonious facial features, allowed her to transform into a wide variety of characters. Therefore, in the arsenal of the actress there are dramas, comedies, fantasy, action films - in any genre, she looks organically.
Films with Natalie Portman almost always pay off - the actress gives all the best 100% on the set. For example, Portman had to shave baldly to take part in the film “V is Vendetta”. Natalie did this without hesitation, although reporters immediately began to attribute to her cancer, bisexuality and other nonsense.
A year earlier, Portman managed to play such a young stripper so well (this is with her puritanical upbringing!) In the project “Proximity” that she was even nominated for an Oscar. But with a golden figurine in her hands, Portman went home only in 2011. Indeed, in 2010, the premiere of the film "Black Swan" (dir. Darren Aronofsky), which brought the actress "Oscar".
Natalie Portman, whose roles are striking in her diversity, also masters the profession of director and producer. As a director, she worked on the short film Eva and one of the short stories from the movie New York, I Love You. In 2013, the actress began filming her first full-length film - "A Tale of Love and Darkness." Besides the fact that Natalie wrote the script herself, she plays one of the roles in her own project.
Personal life
At various times, Portman met with actors Jake Gyllenhaal ("Stringer") and Gael Garcia Bernal ("Letters to Juliet"). Then Natalie had an affair with Devendra Banhart, a Venezuelan folk singer. The actress was credited with relations with the lead singer of Maroon 5, Moby, Lucas Haas, Nat Rothschild, but the parties claim that there was only friendship between them. As expected, the “right” girl Portman married a Jew. Her chosen one was the ballet dancer Benjamin Milpieu. In 2011, the couple had a joint son - Alef. Only a year later, Natalie and the father of the child finally got married. Now the actress plans to move to Paris with her family.