From two hours of dance training a day a year before filming started to eight hours a day for two months she had to learn choreography and do cross training.

Natalie portman star wars name. It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US431 million-grossing prequel Star Wars. She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas Anywhere But Here 1999 and Where the Heart Is 2000 followed by Closer 2004 for which she received an Oscar nomination. After Star Wars.

Neta-Lee is a Hebrew name. Natalie Portman as Nina. Get premium high resolution news photos at Getty Images.

Having gone by her birth name Neta-Lee Hershlag during her formative years the burgeoning actress decided professionally to go by her grandmothers maiden name of Portman. Natalie Portman during 2005 Cannes Film Festival - Star Wars Afterparty in Cannes France. Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9 1981 in Jerusalem Israel.

She is the only child of Avner Hershlag a Israeli-born doctor and Shelley Stevens an American-born artist from Cincinnati Ohio who also acts as. Natalie played the character of Padme Amidala also known as Queen Amidala. Her given name when born was Neta-Lee Hershlag.

Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was released Portman appeared mainly in movies such as Wes Anderson s The Darjeeling Limited The Other Boleyn Girl and the. Natalie Portman has won an Oscar multiple BAFTAs and Golden Globes and dozens of other statuettes and has even started to move from the screen to behind the camera. The role appeared in the Star Wars prequel trilogy as the love interest of Anikan Skywalker.

Star Wars fans are outraged again over a decision to remove the Slave-1 name from one of their iconic space cruisers. 52 rows Natalie Portman born Neta-Lee Hershlag3 on June 9 19811 portrayed Padmé Amidala in the prequel trilogy. The young Portman was scouted by a model agency in a Long Island pizzeria when she was just ten but declined in order to focus on her acting career.