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Biography:
Natalie Portman was born on June 9th, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the
only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from
Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel
for Washington, DC, when she was still very ...(read more)
Natalie Portman was born on June 9th, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the
only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from
Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel
for Washington, DC, when she was still very young. After a few more
moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to
this day. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements
allowed her to attend Harvard.
She was discovered by an agent in a pizza parlor at the age of 11. She
was pushed towards a career in modeling but she decided that she would
rather pursue a career in acting. She was featured in many live
performances, but she made her powerful film debut in the movie Léon (1994)
(aka "The Professional"). Following this role Natalie won roles in such
films as Heat (1995) , Beautiful Girls (1996) , and Mars Attacks! (1996) .
It wasn't until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen
Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) . Afterwards, she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy
dramas, Anywhere But Here (1999) , Where the Heart Is (2000) , and Closer (2004/I) , for which she received an Oscar
nomination.
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Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to Avner, a fertility
specialist, and Shelley, an artist. At the age of three she moved to
Washington, DC, but soon relocated to Syosset, New York, where she
spent the rest of her childhood. At the age of 11 she was spotted by an
agent searching for a child model, which started off her acting career.
six months later at age 12, she debuted in the critically acclaimed
film Léon (1994) , directed by 'Luc Besson' .
Although the movie was a huge hit, it caused her family some problems
due to her Lolita-esque role. She then landed supporting roles in
Heat (1995) , Everyone Says I Love You (1996) , Beautiful Girls (1996) , and Mars Attacks! (1996) . Afterwards, she concentrated on
high school in Syosset, where she was a straight-A student. She acted
only during the summer.
Portman became a leading lady when she landed the role of Queen/Senator
Amidala for Star Wars Episodes I, II, and III. This helped her win
roles in such films as Anywhere But Here (1999) and Where the Heart Is (2000) . She has also had a
successful stage career, appearing in such plays as "The Seagull" and
"The Diary of Anne Frank."
She is now in working on her acting career and attending Harvard
University, where she is studying to be a psychologist. She says that
her future in acting will become very selective due to her choice to
pursue psychology as a working career.
Anthony Licari
Trademarks:
* Often portrays characters that are rather smart, mature, and
grown up for their age.
* Often portrays characters that are rather smart, mature, and
grown up for their age.
Quotes:
* On Lolita (1997) : "I don't think there needs to be a movie out where a child
has sex with an adult."
* On Lolita (1997) : I think there's enough exploitation out there that it's not
nescessary to do more.
* "Young actors often don't think of the co ...(read more)
* On Lolita (1997) : "I don't think there needs to be a movie out where a child
has sex with an adult."
* On Lolita (1997) : I think there's enough exploitation out there that it's not
nescessary to do more.
* "Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or
sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be
exploited, and then end up embarassing family, friends, and even
strangers."
* On acting: "I started to do this at age 11. At age 20, I might say,
this is enough."
* On violence in the media: "We live in a violent world, but since the
success of films like Pulp Fiction (1994) , it seems every movie has some violence
in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now
being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just
don't like hearing people laugh at violence."
* "I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on
hold."
* "I want to use college to explore what other careers I might be
interested in."
* On acting: "I'm taking it day by day. Right now I like acting, but if
something else sparks my interest in college, I'll do that. It's so
limiting to say, this is it for the rest of my life. There are so many
things that interest me: I love math, science, literature,
languages."
* On Lolita (1997) : "Let me tell you, this movie's going to be sleaze."
* "I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruined my career. I'd rather
be smart than a movie star."
* "I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life,
it's just what I've, you Know, ended up doing when I was little, and
I've kinda grown up with it."
* "When I'm working they pretty much treat me like an adult, but then
when there's a break everyone else goes to their trailers and drinks
beer and I like, go to school."
* "There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in
doing films would limit my life."
* "I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much
more accepting when they are adults."
* "Danny [Aiello] told me, 'Don't do television.'"
* "Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like
in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up
and hug them."
* "I've never tried smoking. I don't drink. I've never tried drugs."
(Australian Dolly August 2000)
* "Politics is easy to segue into from acting. I'm very interested in it,
though I would never run for office. But after this, anything I do is
going to seem very bizarre to me." (Interview October 1999)
* "No, but I've been thinking about it a lot. I love acting, but I don't
know if there's something out there that I love more. That's what
college is going to be about for me - checking things out." (Interview
October 1999)
* When asked by Seventeen magazine what advice she had for teenagers
going off to college she said, "I would say practicing laundry it's so
hard." (November 1999)
* "There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side
when being an actor." (Seventeen, November 1999)
* Told the November 1999 issue of Mademoiselle magazine that she wished
she knew 'David Letterman' because, "He seems to be so smart, but you never get
to hang out with him after the show."
* When asked by German Cosmopolitan (3/00) if she would like having
herself as a daughter she replied, "Well of course. I am a good person,
nice, smart, witty, trustworthy, know nice people, don't do drugs and
earn a lot of money." On what she likes about her parents: "They have
made it quite clear that they believe I can be great. Had my parents
expected less of me,I would not be the person I am now. And I am very
happy with myself." (German Cosmopolitan March 2000)
* "I'm not planning to be an actress as an adult, I'm planning other
things for my future." Source: Venice Magazine July 1995
* "I don't think I'd be able to deal with just acting, because I don't
know if you get to use your brain that much. You do, for certain roles,
but not most. Acting is more of a hobby for me."
* "There's a big intellectual aspect that's kind of lacking, " she says
of acting in films. "Right now I supplement that through being in
school. I'm not sure I'd be happy if I was just acting. I haven't
explored a lot of other avenues. Hopefully I'll figure it out by the
end of school, so I know what I want to do with my life."
* When asked about her prom dress: "A designer is going to give me
something to wear. It's the most amazing perk I have."
* "I didn't have this undying need to be an actress. I didn't have that
fire in me ever -- at any point. And still, I don't think I have that
within me."
* "I don't really know if acting would have ultimately become my passion
as an adult, or if there's something else I would have found had I not
been in the pizza shop. That's what college is helping me investigate."
* "I'm ready to ditch the movies and keep at the books. There are so many
other things, and it would feel limiting to say, 'Acting is it for
me.'... I love psychology. That's what I'm studying right now. It would
probably be difficult, because of my current occupation, to become a
clinical psychologist, but I could certainly do research. And I'd like
to have a family someday, too."
* It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're
an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
* "I don't go wagging my boobs around in people's faces" - Rolling Stone
(USA) June, 2002
* "I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be
bulimic because I hate throwing up too much."
* "I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things
I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a
fairy".
* "I was in a relationship recently with someone who yelled at me for
being too much in my head, you know? He said I was thinking too much
about everything".
* "I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's
so worth it. It's done wonders for my mood".
* "I basically have a little boy's body. They tell me, 'OK, this is where
we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'"
* On traveling through Morocco with a guide and sleeping in tents: "They
knew that I am Israeli, and yet they still opened the doors of their
houses for me, offering me tea. They all were nice and
hospitable."
* "As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who
everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I
was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let
anyone down. Now, I'm not like that."
* "My contemporaries in Israel have a love for life that's amazing.
There, there is not the luxurious and rich existence of material goods
of Hollywood films, every day they struggle to survive, but they still
have an enthusiasm difficult to find elsewhere."
* "My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he
helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young
men that where moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first
kibbutz."
* "At college I began to do research for a professor and so I became part
of the organization promoted by the Queen of Jordon: the Foundation for
International Community Assistance. That offers microcredits, offering
small loans of money to women who want to start their own businesses.
The interest is very low and the results are extraordinary."
* I'm pretty much a boring Goody Two-shoes. I've definitely gotten drunk
before, I don't think it's possible to go through college without
getting drunk, but I don't really like it at all. I actually tried my
first cigarette last year at school. I just figured, if many people are
smoking, there must be something to it, and before I pooh- pooh it I
should at least know what it's about. I took one puff and I was like,
OK, I was right. There's nothing to it. They're just wrong, it's
disgusting.
* "I've been doing like one movie a year so I haven't made that many
movies. A lot of girls my age have done 40 already, so I guess I'm a
little behind."
* "I get like 400 Holocaust scripts. That's what you get for being the
openly Jewish actress!"
* "I wanted to be able to form my own sexual identity. If other people
have you in their mind as some sort of sex object, you have two
choices: either live up to it and become super-sexual or rebel against
it and be super-asexual."
* "I'm the anti-Method actor. As soon as we finish a scene, I need to go
back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to
take this home with me. I would feel cheated on when I went home. There
were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my
friends."
* "I had a bad early experience when "The Professional" came out. I'm
really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as
a sexual object when I was 12."
* I think it is a really beautiful thing that we have recognition within
our industry - but it's not that important.
* But we have to remember that almost all films are written and directed
by men. Female characters are women imagined by men, so it's always
this classic figure of a sexy woman with a childish innocence.
* You walk into a nice strip club, the ones where the women are treated
well - obviously 'well' is debatable - and the women just seem so
powerful. Women have full control; they can get whatever they want from
these guys. But they realise it is a tacit contract: they are that way
because men want them to be like that. Obviously, if the men wanted
them on the floor scrubbing their shoes they'd probably be doing that
too.
* "I see that my girlfriends, already at 23, are thinking, 'What career
can I choose that will also suit having children?' And it is limiting.
Whereas my male friends aren't thinking that way." - Premiere magazine
* "Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi or that I have cancer or I'm a
lesbian. After all the crazy hairstyles I had to endure for the films,
it's quite liberating to have no hair - especially in this heat." -
about going bald
* On filming Star Wars: "You learn after your first blue-screen movie,
and more after your second, the extent to which you have to prepare.
You have to come up with the scenery, the characters, the whole world,
as well as what's going on with you. You're often talking to a tape
mark instead of a character, and you have to project what they might be
thinking, what's going on, how they're treating you."
* On filming Free Zone in Jerusalem: "I was sleeping five hours a night
and we were running from location to location and making up the story
as we went along. There's a scene where my arms are uncovered and I'm
very close to the guy. People got upset and we moved to another place.
It was just crazy because they were calling us Nazis, and I think
that's a little much."
* "I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish
one, which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good
sign."
* "People think the film industry is going to corrupt me. I wasn't really
home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always
around adults who wouldn't curse or smoke or do anything like that
around me."
* "The people whose secrets I most want to know are people who actually
have families and marriages as well as careers - people like 'Meryl Streep' ,
'Cate Blanchett' and 'Julianne Moore (I)' . I think that if I were like mid-30s and didn't
have kids yet I would probably start adopting or something. Aargh, I
don't even have a boyfriend, and I'm talking about kids!"
* On starring in Closer (2004/I) : "It's not exploitative, but it is about sex. No
kids allowed. It's definitely a different thing for me, but I feel like
I'm old enough to handle it now. I sort of understand more how to deal
with it publicly, and it doesn't shatter me. I don't have to go to
school the next day and have people be like, 'Oh I saw you in that
movie; you were very dirty'".
* "I think, especially in those first few years of college, my body
started changing a lot. I got hips. Your metabolism changes; you're not
exercising as much. I ran track for a couple of years in high school,
and I was also dancing. I was always doing something. At Harvard, you
don't really join the team unless you're a star."
* "They are all so very different, Episode III is very dark and much more
demanding, we all know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader but to actually
see this transition is very painful. So when you have such a dark story
to work with it demands you as an actor to work harder. So even though
I haven't seen the film yet I would suppose that the last one is my
favorite". (On which of the three Star Wars prequels is her favorite)
* "I began Star Wars when I was 14 and I'm going to be 24 when this final
movie comes out, so these movies were 10 years of my life and now I'm
just trying to do something different."
* "I agree with Walter Murch's theory that digital will never have the
emotional or visual power of regular film, because audiences respond to
absences. Regular film has a split second of blank screen between each
shot, which the audience's brain has to automatically fill in. Digital
doesn't have that, so it doesn't engage the audience in the same ways.
In all modernist literature, the most present thing is what's absent.
Like the opening of The Sound and the Fury, where they're looking
between the fence. Or in Closer the most important parts, the
relationships, are missing and have to be filled in by the audience.
Absences are crucial."
* "I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that
requested people's good and bad memories, and then checked them for
content. But non- pathological people, people who maintain a happy,
healthy brain, couldn't provide negative memories. They'd say, 'But I
learned this from the experience;' they'd turn their negative memories
into positive ones."
* "I get a copy of every action figure from Star Wars. I send them to
charity. Some of the really cool ones I keep. Like there's a snow globe
thing with one of the spacecrafts in it, which is also a music box,
which I really love."
* (asked if winning the Globe was a shock) God, yes! I was so sure I
wasn't going to win it, I went up to Meryl Streep (nominated for The
Manchurian Candidate) before the show and said, "You're going down."
We'd done a play together, so I knew her pretty well, but to me, it was
a big joke, like, I'm going to win against Meryl-yeah, right. When they
called my name, all I could think was, oh no, Meryl's going to be mad
at me!
* (on the necklace she gave Julia Roberts) Oh, I made the mistake of
telling one person I did that - now everyone loves this story! It was
just a joke, because there were lots of dirty words in the script, and
every time Julia had to say a bad word she got all blushy.
* The moment you buy into the idea you're above anyone else is the moment
you need to be slapped in the face.
* I actually am starting to feel I should start a revolution against
heels, even though that wouldn't be a dramatic revolution. Everyone
around me says, 'You have to wear heels.' It's based on some silly
concept that longer legs are more beautiful.
* "In seventh grade I cried every single day when I came back from
shooting The Professional. My friends were not my friends. They were
saying, 'She thinks she's so hot now,' things like that, and it was the
most painful thing I've ever gone through. Clearly, I haven't had that
difficult a life." - Jane Magazine 1999
* "Ashley (Judd) and I went to this place called the Broken Spoke. You
walk in and everyone's wearing cowboy hats and men come up to you and
ask you to dance. We danced the two-step together, and all these men
were coming up, saying, "It's not right to see two ladies dancing. Let
us cut in!"
* "There were stories in the house of what had happened to them (her
grandparents during the Holocaust), and it wasn't that much talked
about. I had to go on a website to read my grandfather's descriptions
of what happened to the family."
* [on Tom Tykwer, and working with him during his personal crisis] "The
very first time we met we were able to tell each other so much about
our personal experiences and what we were going through at the moment-
my own experience was a similarly difficult and pivotal one for me,
though obviously a bit more adolescent than Tom's. It was part of what
made the film seem like a joint search for something, a joint
expedition."
* [on shooting the strip-club scene fully nude] "You can't do this stuff
half-assed, pun intended."
* [asked how she would like to be remembered] "I don't like that
question. That question only provides irony if you prematurely die."
* [Morocco] "When I finished V for Vendetta (2005) , I went for a few days as sort of a
birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing
storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up
in a tent with the six strangers whom I had just met, and had traveled
with earlier on camel back. There we were, watching this amazing
lightening in the middle of the desert. The tent was shaking and it was
a really exciting experience."
* "I aspire to make more comedies because we never see enough good ones."
* "When I was nine and attending a Jewish school, we had different kosher
lunches served. We weren't kosher at home. My mom used to make me
chicken salad sandwiches and I would have to lie to everyone, saying it
was tuna. "It doesn't smell like tuna," they'd say."
* [On preparing for her role as Queen Amidala] "George worked with me a
lot, on changing my voice and my movement and the way I carried myself.
We worked on this accent that ... kinda goes to old, older generations
of actresses who used kind of an unidentifiable accent. 'Is it American
or is it British?' and I watched 'Lauren Bacall' , 'Audrey Hepburn' , 'Katharine Hepburn' . If you look
at them, their voices and the stature is so regal, even in their
everyday characters. And that's kinda why I used it to model
after".
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Posted on 03/19/08 07:15 PM.
is a fantastic girl... good person....
Posted on 01/10/08 06:19 PM.
I wish I had girl just like you.
Posted on 10/01/07 10:14 AM.
THE ONE, LO MAXIMO, LE PLUS. MI NOVIA, JE
Posted on 09/11/07 07:21 AM.
your movies seem very nice
Posted on 08/25/07 01:46 PM.
u rock wish iwas your b/f
Posted on 08/09/07 12:24 PM.
You're the most beatiful and cutest actress I've had ever seen, you are teh one qho can mix beaty with talent, u rock!!!