She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films , receiving multiple accolades , including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. From to , 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 , and in The Public Theater 's revival of Anton Chekhov 's play The Seagull.
She starred in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached and portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie , which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. Co-founding the production company MountainA in , Portman produced and starred in the drama May December Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness She is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States, and an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes.
She was married to dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied from to , with whom she has two children. Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D. I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. I was a very serious kid. When Portman was ten years old, a Revlon agent spotted her at a pizza restaurant and asked her to become a child model. Six months after Ruthless! Her parents were reluctant to let her do the part due to the explicit sexual and violent nature of the script, but agreed after Besson took out the Mathilda character's nudity and killings that she committed.
Sort of being fantasy objects for men, and especially this idealised purity combined with the fertility of youth, and all this in one. It was definitely interesting to think about — why men write the female characters they do. Just like the way they write the male character. How much is wish-fulfilment fantasy, and why. After filming The Professional , Portman went back to school and during the summer break of , she filmed a part in Marya Cohn 's short film Developing. In it she played a young girl coping with her mother's played by Frances Conroy cancer.
In preparation, she twice visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and interacted with Miep Gies , who had preserved Anne's diary after the family was captured; she found a connection with Frank's story, given her own family's history with the Holocaust. The first film of the series, Episode I — The Phantom Menace was released in , when she was in her senior year of high school. Portman graduated from Syosset High School in She was shown a new draft, and decided to accept the part.
