Natalie Portman (birth name - Natalie Hershlag ) was born on 9 June 1981, in Jerusalem. She is professionally an actress. This cute, doe-eyed 5’3" girl decided to become a vegetarian when she was only eight. She had learned three languages - French, Hebrew and Japanese. Her subject of formal education is psychology at prestigious Harvard University in Boston. And she was a full time school student while she made her debut in 1994. In 1995, she took on the role of Al Pacino's step-daughter in another very popular film, Michael Mann's Heat. With this as a start for her career, Portman did many great roles in the following years. She played Jack Nicholson's daughter in Mars Attacks and also in Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You. Beautiful Girls, The Diary of Anne Frank (her 1997 Broadway debut), The Phantom Menace are few other among her many films. |