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Natalie Portman was born on the 9th of June 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel. Her real name is Natalie Hershlag.

She graduated high school with honors and attended Harvard University where she studied psychology.

Natalie made her movie debut aged 12 in the movie Leon which was directed by Luc Besson. A year later she won a role in the critically acclaimed Michael Mann thriller Heat playing Al Pacino's daughter.

In 1996 she had roles in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, Ted Demme's Beautiful Girls and Tim Burton's Mar's Attacks.

Miss Portmans career hit the stratosphere when she landed the role of Queen Amidala in Star Wars Episode One: The Phanton Menace, she also appeared in two sequels Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith.

Natalie does not eat animal products or wear fur.

She believes in animal rights and helps environmental causes, she filmed a documentary in Rwanda called Gorilla's on the Brink highlighting that mountain gorilla's are facing extinction.

She speaks two languages, Hebrew and English and knows a little French, German, Spanish and Japanese. She has acted on Broadway in the stage play The Diary Of Anne Frank.

Some of her movies are Anywhere But Here, Where The Heart Is, Cold Mountain, Garden State, Closer, V For Vendetta, Goya's Ghosts, My Blueberry Nights, The Other Boleyn Girl and Brothers.

Future films you can see Natalie in are Hesher, Your Highness, Black Swan, Thor, Which Brings Me To You, Isabella V and maybe the superbly titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Check out some Natalie Portman Quotes below.

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.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruined my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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 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.

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.

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.

The moment you buy into the idea you're above anyone else is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

I aspire to make more comedies because we never see enough good ones.

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