Natalie Portman

Portman was interviewed for the August 2004 issue of Allure magazine; in that article, she was quoted as saying "Oh my God! I'm not black, but I know what it feels like!" This prompted her to follow up with a letter to their editor:. She also starred in the movie Rollerball with Chris Klein. presidential campaign. She had her first leading role in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002). 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. In 2000's X-Men, she had her first major movie role as "Mystique"; she returned to the role in 2003's sequel X2: X-Men United. In these movies her costume consisted of blue makeup and some strategically placed prosthetics on her otherwise nude body. Portman graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a degree in psychology. Professionally she has returned to using her birth name, an indication that the separation is probably permanent.

Portman has been a vegetarian since she was eight years old. The couple separated in 2004. Portman appeared on Sesame Street and as of 2004 has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman ten times. She married actor John Stamos in 1998. In 2005, she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for her role as Alice in Closer. Among other jobs, she modeled for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and for Victoria's Secret. Portman was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role as Ann August in Anywhere But Here (Angelina Jolie won that year for Girl, Interrupted). While studying music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with modelling and eventually moved to Paris, France for more than two years.

She is one of dozens of celebrities who played themselves in a cameo appearance in the 2001 comedy Zoolander. She was born Rebecca Romijn in Berkeley, California to parents with Dutch ancestry. She is known among Star Wars fans for her role as Padmé Amidala in the prequels, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (born November 6, 1972) is a former supermodel currently making the switch to become an actress. Portman went on to charm critics and viewers alike in Beautiful Girls, and played a minor part in Everyone Says I Love You. That role began a pattern of portraying characters that are unusually smart, mature, and/or precocious for their ages.

After being introduced to acting agents, she made her movie début at the age of twelve, playing a child who befriends a much older assassin in Luc Besson's Léon. She was discovered in a pizza parlor at the age of eleven by an agent for Revlon, who wanted her to model. She was born in Jerusalem but her family soon relocated to Maryland, then Connecticut, before settling down on Long Island. Her ethnic background is Polish-Jewish.

'Portman' is a stage name taken from her grandmother's maiden name. Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-American actress. The Seagull (2001). The Diary Of Anne Frank (1999).

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Closer (2004, directed by Mike Nichols). True (2004, directed by Tom Tykwer). Garden State (2004, written and directed by Zach Braff).

Cold Mountain (2003, written and directed by Anthony Minghella). Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Zoolander (2001). Where the Heart Is (2000).

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). Anywhere But Here (1999). Mars Attacks (1996, directed by Tim Burton). Everyone Says I Love You (1996, written and directed by Woody Allen).

Beautiful Girls (1996, directed by Ted Demme). Heat (1995). Developing (short) (1995). Léon (1994).