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Natalie Portman is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. She was born Neta-Lee Hershlag on June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother. At the age of three, she moved to the United States and studied dancing and acting in New York. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon: The Professional, opposite Jean Reno. She then went on to star as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). While still in high school on Long Island, she starred in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, while continuing to act. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003. During her studies, she starred in a second Star Wars film and opened in New York City's The Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 2001. Portman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 2004 drama Closer. She also appeared in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith the following year, and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and also appeared in Thor (2011) and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the psychological thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award and the BFCA Award in 2011. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie. She was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. The same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, was released in 2015.