Natalie Portman

About Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (née Hershlag, Hebrew: נטע-לי הרשלג, born June 9, 1981) is an Ashkenazi Jewish Israeli-born American actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Portman began her acting career at age twelve, when she starred as the young protégée of a hitman in the action film Léon: The Professional (1994). While in high school, she made her Broadway debut in a 1998 production of The Diary of a Young Girl and gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She reduced her number of acting roles but continued to act in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002, 2005) and in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull.

In 2004, Portman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in the romantic drama Closer. Portman's career further advanced with her starring roles as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings. Attached (2011) and portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. Portman has also featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), which established her as one of the world's highest-paid actresses.

Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015). She co-founded the production company MountainA in 2021. She is vocal about the politics of the United States and Israel and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. She is married to dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children.

Her Dior Nudes

In her early twenties Portman began posing naked for Dior ads, earning her the title “Miss Dior” due to her quickly becoming the poster girl for Dior marketing. The most famous of these images sees Portman completely naked curled in a fetal position on a rug in a basement using her arms to cover her chest and bending her legs to cover her lower half leaving her butt completely exposed . Portman stated she gets more requests to sign copies of the picture more than anything else. Portman further stated she is very proud to have shared herself in such a vulnerable state. She was just 23 when she posed naked in the basement and subsequently, this was the first time she ever posed naked. In the years since Portman has agreed to recreate the iconic photo with Dior soon.

As of June 2026, Natalie has amassed 9.2 million followers on Instagram and 11,000 subscribers on her YouTube platform.