Natalie Portman filmography

Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress and filmmaker. She made her film debut in Luc Besson's action thriller Léon: The Professional, which starred her as the young protégée of a hitman.^[1][2] She followed this by appearing in Michael Mann's crime thriller Heat (1995), Ted Demme's romantic comedy Beautiful Girls (1996), and Tim Burton's science fiction comedy Mars Attacks! (1996). Three years later, her supporting role as the precocious, responsible daughter of a narcissistic mother played by Susan Sarandon in the drama Anywhere but Here earned Portman her first Golden Globe Award nomination.^[3][4] In the same year, she played Padmé Amidala in the first of the Star Wars prequel trilogy Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which brought her international recognition.^[5][6] She reprised the role in its sequels Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).

Portman at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

For her performance as a stripper in Mike Nichols' romantic drama Closer (2004), she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[7][8][9] Two years later Portman portrayed vigilante Evey Hammond in the political thriller V for Vendetta for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress.^[10] In the same year, she hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2009, she starred as an adulteress in The Other Woman, which she also executively produced. In 2010, Portman's performance as a mentally tortured ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror Black Swan won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.^{[11][12][13][14]}

In 2011, she appeared in the comedies No Strings Attached and Your Highness. In the same year, Portman also played Jane Foster, the titular superhero's scientist girlfriend in Thor. She reprised the role in its sequels Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), she also reprised the role in Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2015, she starred in Terrence Malick's romantic drama Knight of Cups, and made her feature film directorial debut with A Tale of Love and Darkness, an adaptation of Amos Oz's autobiographical novel of the same name; she also starred in the film.^[15] The following year, Portman portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie, for which she received nominations for Best Actress at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Academy Awards.^[16][17] In 2018, Portman starred in the science fiction horror film Annihilation, and the drama Vox Lux.

Film

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1994	Léon: The Professional	Mathilda Lando		[18]
1995	Developing	Nina	Short film	[19][20]
	Heat	Lauren Gustafson		[21]
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	Laura Dandridge		[22]
	Beautiful Girls	Marty		[23]
	Mars Attacks!	Taffy Dale		[24]
1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	Padmé Amidala		[25]
	Anywhere but Here	Ann August		[23]
2000	Where the Heart Is	Novalee Nation		[23]
2001	Zoolander	Herself	Cameo	[26]
2002	Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Padmé Amidala		[27]
2003	Cold Mountain	Sara		[23]
2004	Garden State	Samantha		[23]
	True	Francine	Short film	[28]
	Closer	Alice Ayres / Jane Jones		[29]
2005	Domino One	Dominique Bellamy		[23]
	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	Padmé Amidala		[30]
	Free Zone	Rebecca		[31]
2006	V for Vendetta	Evey Hammond		[23]
	Paris, je t'aime	Francine	Segment: "Faubourg Saint-Denis"	[32][33]
	Goya's Ghosts	Inés Bilbatúa / Alicia		[23]
2007	My Blueberry Nights	Leslie		[34]
	Hotel Chevalier	Rhett	Short film	[35]
	The Darjeeling Limited		Cameo	[35]
	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	Molly Mahoney		[36]
2008	The Other Boleyn Girl	Anne Boleyn		[23]
	Eve	—	Director and writer only; short film	[37]
	New York, I Love You	Rifka Malone	Actor for segment: "Mira Nair"; Director and writer for segment: "Natalie Portman"	[38]
2009	The Other Woman	Emilia Greenleaf	Also executive producer	[39]
	Brothers	Grace Cahill		[40]
2010	Hesher	Nicole	Also producer	[41][42]
	Black Swan	Nina Sayers / White Swan / Odette		[43]
	I'm Still Here	Herself	Mockumentary	[44]
2011	No Strings Attached	Emma Kurtzman	Also executive producer	[45][46]
	Your Highness	Isabel		[23]
	Thor	Jane Foster		[23]
2013	Illusions & Mirrors	Young Woman	Short film	[47]
	Thor: The Dark World	Jane Foster		[23]
2015	The Seventh Fire	—	Executive producer only; documentary	[48]
	Knight of Cups	Elizabeth		[49]
	The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards	Laura	Segment: "Lacunae"	[50]
	A Tale of Love and Darkness	Fania Klausner	Also director and writer	[51]
	Reset	Herself	Documentary
	Jane Got a Gun	Jane Hammond	Also producer	[52][53]
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	—	Producer only	[46][54]
	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy		[55]
	Planetarium	Laura Barlow		[56]
2017	Song to Song	Rhonda		[57]
	Eating Animals	Narrator (voice)	Also producer; documentary	[58][59]
2018	Annihilation	Lena		[60][61]
	Dolphin Reef	Narrator (voice)	Documentary	[62]
	Vox Lux	Celeste Montgomery	Also executive producer	[63]
	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	Sam Turner		[64]
2019	Avengers: Endgame	Jane Foster (archive footage)	Archive footage from Thor: The Dark World and new voice-over[65]	[65]
	Lucy in the Sky	Lucy Cola		[66]
2022	Thor: Love and Thunder	Jane Foster / Mighty Thor		[67][68]
2023	May December	Elizabeth Berry	Also producer	[69]
2025	Fountain of Youth †	Charlotte Purdue	Post-production	[70]
	The Twits †	TBA (voice)	In production	[71]
TBA	The Gallerist †	TBA	Post-production

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Sesame Street	Herself	Episode: "Oscar Moves to Different Locations"	[72]
2004			Episode: "Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On"	[73]
	Hitler's Pawn: The Margaret Lambert Story	Narrator (voice)	Documentary	[46]
	Long Way Round	Herself	Episode: "Calgary to New York"
2006	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Natalie Portman / Fall Out Boy"	[74]
	The Armenian Genocide	Aurora Mardiganian (voice)	Documentary	[75]
2007	The Simpsons	Darcy (voice)	Episode: "Little Big Girl"	[76]
	Saving a Species: Gorillas on the Brink	Host	Documentary	[77]
2012	The Simpsons	Darcy (voice)	Episode: "Moonshine River"	[78]
2017	Angie Tribeca	Christina Craft	Episode: "This Sounds Unbelievable, But CSI: Miami Did It"	[79]
2018	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Natalie Portman / Dua Lipa"	[80]
2021	What If...?	Jane Foster (voice)	Episode: "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?"	[81]
	Bluey	Whale Documentary Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Whale Watching"	[82]
2023	Secrets of the Elephants	Narrator (voice)	4 episodes; documentary	[83]
	Angel City	Herself	3 episodes; also executive producer	[84]
2024	Lady in the Lake	Maddie Schwartz	Miniseries; also executive producer	[85]

Key

†	Denotes series that have not yet been released

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1997–1998	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	Music Box Theatre	[86]
2001	The Seagull	Nina Zarechnaya	Delacorte Theater	[87]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist(s)	Role	Ref.
2006	Natalie's Rap	The Lonely Island	Herself	[88]
2007	Dance Tonight	Paul McCartney	Ghost	[89]
2008	Carmensita	Devendra Banhart	Princess Carmensita Saplingita	[90][91][92]
2012	My Valentine	Paul McCartney	Herself	[93]
2017	My Willing Heart	James Blake		[94]
2018	Natalie's Rap 2.0	The Lonely Island		[95]
2020	Imagine	Gal Gadot & Friends		[96]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Natalie Portman

Notes