Natalie Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage y
Portman's Padmé Amidala costume from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Portman at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where she served as a jury member
Portman at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress
Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, and based on a story by Heinz. Starr
Natalie Portman
…Actress for Closer. She then played Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In the following years, Portman starred in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011…
Theatrical release poster
The scene from the ballet Swan Lake in which the Black Swan (Odile) tricks and seduces the Prince
Mila Kunis was first approached to star in Black Swan in 2008.
Part of the filming took place at the State University of New York at Purchase Performing Arts Center