History Creator / NataliePortman

** ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' (2021)

* CharacterTics: [http://nylover.blogspot.com/2005/06/elle-december-04-natalie-portman.html According to some sources], she has a habit of playing with her toes during interviews.

** She was very disappointed that most of the critical and fan reaction to her short film ''Hotel Chevalier'' focused on her having a nude scene, and decided to swear off doing them in the future (while she filmed several nude scenes for ''Closer'' prior to this, director Mike Nichols had cut them from the film, and in films such as ''Film/YourHighness'', the shot that is supposedly her stripping to her underwear to bathe was a body double).

* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to drum up the resentment between Natalie and Creator/MilaKunis in ''Film/BlackSwan'', Darren Aronofsky pitted the two of them against each other. Reportedly he kept telling each of them that the other was doing a better job.

** She has said that ''Franchise/StarWars'' almost 'ruined her career' due to what was perceived as a bad performance, and that the only thing which helped her career turn the corner was Mike Nichols (who she'd worked with in a play) personally vouching for her to be cast in ''Film/ColdMountain''.

* ''Film/VoxLux'' (2018) as Celeste Montgomery ([[TimeShiftedActor Present Day]])

* ''Vox Lux'' (2018) as Celeste Montgomery ([[TimeShiftedActor Present Day]])

* AwesomeDearBoy: [[invoked]]

** Her reaction to ''{{Film/Thor}}'' - "Creator/KennethBranagh's directing ''Thor''? I've gotta do it" - and she loved the idea of playing a scientist, showing young girls that they could be scientists too if they wanted.

* CareerResurrection: [[invoked]] Although ''Star Wars'' made her famous, her infamously wooden performance (now agreed to be the fault of Creator/GeorgeLucas's writing and directing) led to people doubting her acting abilities for years. It wasn't until ''Film/BlackSwan'' that she properly won her detractors over.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: [[invoked]] As Darcy in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* CreatorBacklash: [[invoked]]

** A similar reaction came from her role in ''Film/BeautifulGirls'', and she was uncomfortable with the reaction to her being a sex symbol while she was still underage. She turned down the role in ''{{Literature/Lolita}}'' because of it.[[note]]Ironically misunderstanding the point of the story.[[/note]]

** She signed onto the first ''{{Film/Thor}}'' movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with ''Film/WonderWoman2017'') was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being a love interest and LivingMacguffin. She's since come back around to the MCU starting in 2019, with a cameo in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' [[note]]the cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dubbed over a few new lines[[/note]] and a vastly-increased role in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' (in which Jane becomes an ActionGirl who gets her own superpowers). In addition, she also was announced to be part of the cast of ''What If...?'' from the first season onward.
* DoingItForTheArt: [[invoked]] She was so dedicated to ''Film/BlackSwan'' that she signed on before they even had a finished script. During production, the budget was tight, so Natalie told them to get rid of her trailer so they could afford a medic. She also paid out of her own pocket for all the extra ballet training.
* DyeingForYourArt: [[invoked]]

* EnforcedMethodActing: [[invoked]] In order to drum up the resentment between Natalie and Creator/MilaKunis in ''Film/BlackSwan'', Darren Aronofsky pitted the two of them against each other. Reportedly he kept telling each of them that the other was doing a better job.
* FakeBrit: [[invoked]] She's done a few - ''Film/VForVendetta'', ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'', and ''Film/YourHighness''. Fans are split over her accent in the former, but it's agreed that she improved over time.
* FormerChildStar: Averted, as she is even more successful now than as a child actor.
* IAmNotSpock: [[invoked]] "I Am Not Padmé Amidala."
* ImageSource: [[invoked]] LittleMissBadass (As Mathilda in ''Film/TheProfessional''.)

* OldShame: [[invoked]]

* TheOtherMarty: [[invoked]] She replaced Creator/EvaGreen in ''Closer''.
* PlayingAgainstType: [[invoked]] As a ManicPixieDreamGirl in ''Film/GardenState''. Hilariously she was also considered for the TropeNamer Claire in ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}''.
* RoleReprisal:[[invoked]] Natalie said she was "done" with the MCU after ''Thor: The Dark World''. She ended up changing her mind a couple years later and reprising the role of Jane Foster for ''Avengers: Endgame'' (sort of), ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', and ''What If...?''.
* RomanceOnTheSet: [[invoked]] She married Benjamin Millepied, who was her dance instructor on ''Film/BlackSwan'', and had a small role as a [[HilariousInHindsight man who turns up his nose when the director says "would you fuck that girl?"]]

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: [[invoked]] Of course Creator/KeiraKnightley in ''The Phantom Menace''. Keira later said that she would often double for Natalie in some scenes if she'd been tired and wanted to go home early.

* StarMakingRole: [[invoked]] While she had been in several critically acclaimed movies for years beforehand (her film debut in ''Film/TheProfessional'' being the most notable), her role as Padme Amidala in ''Franchise/StarWars'' pushed her to household name status. Ironically, the same film almost ruined her career as an actress at the same time it was making her well-known.

* ThoseTwoActors: [[invoked]]
** With Creator/JudeLaw in ''Film/ColdMountain'', ''{{Film/Closer}}'', ''My Blueberry Nights'' and ''Vox Lux''.

** She has starred with her ''Star Wars'' co-stars Creator/SamuelLJackson in ''{{Film/Thor}}'', Hayden Christensen in ''New York I Love You'', and Creator/EwanMcGregor and Joel Edgerton in ''Jane Got a Gun''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]]
** Her StarMakingRole (see above) could've been much earlier. She was cast as [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]] in ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' opposite Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, except screen-tests apparently made it appear as though 21-year old [=DiCaprio=] was "molesting" the then 14-year old Portman ([[ValuesDissonance which is actually rather accurate to the original play]]: Juliet was ''thirteen'').

** She was very enthusiastic about returning to her role as Jane Foster for ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}},'' but she was very pregnant at the time. Becomes sadder in retrospect when she would ''not'' enjoy her reprisal of Jane in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.

** She shot a nude scene for ''{{Film/Closer}}'' where Jane strips off in front of Larry. She and Mike Nichols decided not to use it, feeling the scene was effective enough without nudity.

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with ''Film/WonderWoman2017'') was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being a love interest and LivingMacguffin. She's since come back around to the MCU starting in 2019, with a cameo in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' [[note]]the cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dubbed over a few new lines[[/note]] and a vastly-increased role in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' (in which Jane becomes an ActionGirl who gets her own superpowers). In addition, she also was announced to be part of the cast of ''What If...?'' from the first season onward.

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being a love interest and LivingMacguffin. She's since come back around to the MCU starting in 2019, with a cameo in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' [[note]]the cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dubbed over a few new lines[[/note]] and a vastly-increased role in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' (in which Jane becomes an ActionGirl who gets her own superpowers). In addition, she also was announced to be part of the cast of ''What If...?'' from the first season onward.

* ''Vox Lux'' as Celesta Montgomery

** Creator/DavidFincher strongly considered her for Lisbeth Solander in his remake of ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo''. Natalie turned it down due to exhaustion and it ended up becoming a StarMakingRole for Creator/RooneyMara.

* RoleReprisal:[[invoked]] Natalie said she was "done" with the MCU after ''Thor: The Dark World''. She ended up changing her mind a couple years later and reprising the role of Jane Foster for ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.

Neta-Lee Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman (born June 9, 1981), is an Israeli-American actress, film producer and film director. Her breakout role was Mathilda in ''Film/TheProfessional'', and the role that raised her profile was Padmé Amidala in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy. She has since been nominated for three UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s — one of which she won (Best Actress for her role of Nina in ''Film/BlackSwan'').

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' (1999 – 2005) as Queen/Senator Padmé Amidala:

* PlayingAgainstType: [[invoked]] As a ManicPixieDreamGirl in ''Film/GardenState''. Hilariously she was also considered for the TropeNamer Claire in ''{{Film/Elizabethtown}}''.

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being a love interest and LivingMacguffin. She's since come back around to the MCU starting in 2019, with a cameo in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' [[note]]the cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dubbed over a few new lines[[/note]] and a vastly-increased role in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' (in which Jane becomes an ActionGirl who gets her own superpowers).

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being the DesignatedLoveInterest and has only made a cameo in one movie (''Film/AvengersEndgame'') since. [[note]] The cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dubbed over a few new lines [[/note]]

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2011 – 2019) as ComicBook/JaneFoster:

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019) [[note]] Cameo from old unused footage with some new lines dubbed in [[/note]]

** With Creator/JudeLaw in ''Film/ColdMountain'', ''{{Film/Closer}}'', and ''My Blueberry Nights''.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2011 – 2013) as ComicBook/JaneFoster:

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019)

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being the DesignatedLoveInterest and has only made a cameo in one movie (''Film/AvengersEndgame'') since. [[note]] The cameo itself is re-used footage cut from ''The Dark World'' but she dub over a few new lines [[/note]]

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being the DesignatedLoveInterest and has only made a cameo in one movie (''Film/AvengersEndgame'') since.

** She was very disappointed that most of the critical and fan reaction to her short film ''Hotel Chevalier'' focused on her having a nude scene, and decided to swear off doing them in the future (while she filmed several nude scenes for ''Closer'' prior to this, director Mike Nichols had cut them from the film, and in films such as ''Film/YourHighness'', the shot that is supposedly her stripping naked to bathe was a body double).

** She signed onto the first {{Film/Thor}} movie under the impression that Creator/PattyJenkins (who would have been the first woman to direct a modern superhero movie and ironically enough ended up being that with Film/WonderWoman) was to direct the sequel, ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Jenkins left the project under amicable terms but Portman tried to leave with her. She was contractually tied to the movie and had to stay. She was unhappy with the final product, especially with Jane being the DesignatedLoveInterest and hasn't been in another Marvel movie since.

Neta-Lee Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman (born June 9, 1981), is an Israeli-American actress, film producer and film director. Her breakout role was Mathilda in ''Film/TheProfessional'', and the role that raised her profile was Padmé Amidala in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy. She has since been nominated for three UsefulNotes/AcademyAward — one of which she won (Best Actress for her role of Nina in ''Film/BlackSwan'').