Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is an actor and filmmaker whose screen work ranges from Léon and the Star Wars prequel trilogy to Closer, V for Vendetta and Black Swan. Her performance in Closer earned an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress; she won the leading-actress Oscar for Black Swan in 2011.

Portman’s work behind the camera includes writing and directing A Tale of Love and Darkness, presented at Cannes in 2015. She has also worked with directors including Wong Kar-wai and Todd Haynes, appearing in My Blueberry Nights and May December. She graduated from Harvard in 2003 and served on the Cannes feature-film jury in 2008.