Editing Natalie Portman (section)

==Early life ==
Natalie Hershlag<ref name=hollywoodrep21>{{cite web |last1=Feinberg |first1=Scott |date=December 2016 |title='Awards Chatter' Podcast — Natalie Portman ('Jackie') |website=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/awards-chatter-podcast-natalie-portman-jackie-950574/ |access-date=May 12, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601115037/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/awards-chatter-podcast-natalie-portman-jackie-950574/ |archive-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baird |first1=Abigail A. |last2=Kagan |first2=Jerome |last3=Gaudette |first3=Thomas |last4=Walz |first4=Kathryn A. |last5=Hershlag |first5=Natalie |last6=Boas |first6=David A. |title=Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy |url=https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/DOT/PDF/Baird_NeuroImage_16_1120_2002.pdf |access-date=May 12, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512210112/https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/DOT/PDF/Baird_NeuroImage_16_1120_2002.pdf |journal=[[NeuroImage]] |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |volume=4 |issue=16 |date=August 2002 |pages=1120–1126 |
doi=10.1006/nimg.2002.1170|pmid=12202098 |issn=1053-8119}}</ref><!--See discussion at [[Talk:Natalie Portman/Archive 5#"Neta-Lee Hershlag"]]--> was born on June 9, 1981,<ref name="cbsnews-Hershlag2">{{cite news |last=Crean |first=Ellen |date=July 30, 2004 |title=A 'Garden State' Of Mind |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-garden-state-of-mind/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811194145/https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/30/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main633153.shtml |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |access-date=October 18, 2007 |publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref> <!-- Please do not add a country next to her place of birth. This has been discussed and rejected at Talk:Natalie Portman/Jerusalem and Israel. Please read the talk page and archives. -->in [[West Jerusalem]], [[Mount Scopus]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Rosenblum |first=Sarit |date=March 24, 2011 |title=Natalie Portman promotes Hadassah |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4044426,00.html |access-date=February 13, 2025 |work=Ynetnews |language=en}}</ref> to Jewish parents. Her mother’s ancestors immigrated from [[History of the Jews in Austria|Austria]] and [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russia]] to the U.S., while her father’s parents immigrated to Israel from [[History of the Jews in Poland|Poland]] after [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blackwood |first=Emily |date=July 19, 2024 |title=All About Natalie Portman's Parents, Avner Hershlag and Shelley Stevens |url=https://people.com/all-about-natalie-portman-parents-8677146 |access-date=February 21, 2025 |website=People.com |language=en}}</ref> One of her paternal [[Grandparent|great-grandmothers]], who is said to have been a spy for [[British intelligence agencies|British Intelligence]] during World War II, was born in [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romania]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-12 |title=10 famous actors who share Romanian origins |url=https://www.romania-insider.com/famous-actors-romanian-origins |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Romania Insider |language=en}}</ref> She is the only child of Shelley Stevens, an Ohio-born artist, and Avner Hershlag, an [[Sabra (person)|Israeli-born]] gynecologist.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/natalie-portman--more-than-a-woman-789103.html |title = Natalie Portman – more than a woman |work = [[The Independent]] |location = UK |first = Gill |last = Pringle |date = February 29, 2008 |access-date = March 8, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006114358/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/natalie-portman--more-than-a-woman-789103.html |archive-date = October 6, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="salempress" /> Portman is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kershner |first1=Isabel |last2=Specia |first2=Megan |date=April 20, 2018 |title=Natalie Portman Backs Out of Israeli Award Ceremony |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/world/middleeast/natalie-portman-genesis-prize.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430181157/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/world/middleeast/natalie-portman-genesis-prize.html |archive-date=April 30, 2018 |access-date=April 30, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language= |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Deitch |first=Ian |date=April 20, 2018 |title=Natalie Portman addresses snub of 'Jewish Nobel,' backlash |url=https://apnews.com/article/e0f3cf67b58c43c09bfadac9aa2cf8f0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124224933/https://apnews.com/article/e0f3cf67b58c43c09bfadac9aa2cf8f0 |archive-date=November 24, 2023 |access-date=April 30, 2024 |website=[[Associated Press]] |language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Britannica Book of the Year 2012 |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |year=2012 |isbn=9781615356188 |editor-last=Sparks |editor-first=Karen Jacob |pages=102 |editor-last2=Shepherd |editor-first2=Melissa C.}}</ref>

Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to [[Connecticut]] in 1988 and then moved to [[Long Island]]<ref name=newsday02-26-11>{{cite news |first1 = Carol |last1 = Polsky |first2=Frank | last2=Lovece |title = Portman was ever the swan growing up on LI |date = February 26, 2011 |url = http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/portman-was-ever-the-swan-growing-up-on-li-1.2715737 |work = [[Newsday]] |location = New York/Long Island |access-date = March 21, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131003015745/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/portman-was-ever-the-swan-growing-up-on-li-1.2715737 |archive-date = October 3, 2013}}</ref> in 1990.<ref name="actors">{{Cite episode |url = http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/natalie-portman |title = Natalie Portman |series = Inside the Actors Studio |series-link = Inside the Actors Studio |airdate = November 21, 2004 |season = 11 |number = 1101 |network = Bravo |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721103815/http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/natalie-portman |archive-date = July 21, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=enchanting>Thernstrom, Melanie. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/07ther.html?pagewanted=2 "The Enchanting Little Princess"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528033831/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/07ther.html?pagewanted=2 |date=May 28, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 7, 2004. Page 2 of online version.</ref> While living in Washington, Portman attended [[Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School]] in [[Rockville, Maryland]].<ref name="salempress">{{cite book |chapter-url = http://salempress.com/store/pdfs/jewish_lives.pdf |title = Great Lives from History: Jewish Americans |chapter = Natalie Portman |publisher = Salem Press |location = [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]] |author = Dr. Rafael Medoff |year = 2011 |page = 900 |isbn = 978-1-58765-741-2 |archive-date = August 24, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140824040914/http://salempress.com/store/pdfs/jewish_lives.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date = July 4, 2015 }}</ref> Her native language is [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].<ref name="guardian2011">{{cite web |last=Collins |first=Andrew |date=January 1, 2011 |title=Natalie Portman: The prodigy comes of age |website=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jan/02/observer-profile-natalie-portman |access-date=November 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019100751/http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jan/02/observer-profile-natalie-portman |archive-date=October 19, 2013}}</ref> While living on Long Island, she attended a Jewish elementary school, the [[Solomon Schechter Day School Association|Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County]].<ref name="newsday02-26-11" /> She studied ballet and modern dance at the American Theater Dance Workshop, and regularly attended the [[Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts|Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts]].<ref name="newsday02-26-11" /> Describing her early life, Portman has said that she was "different from the other kids. I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked very hard. I was a very serious kid."<ref>{{Cite news |title = Natalie Portman Will Change Your Life |url = http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1791 |publisher = Blender |date = November 2005 |first = Ariel |last = Levy |archive-date = December 23, 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051223034405/http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1791 }}</ref>

When Portman was ten years old, a [[Revlon]] agent spotted her at a pizza restaurant and asked her to become a child model.<ref name="nytimes_real_name">{{Cite news |title = Up and Coming: Natalie Portman; Natalie Portman (Not Her Real Name) |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/movies/up-and-coming-natalie-portman-natalie-portman-not-her-real-name.html |work = The New York Times |first = James |last = Ryan |date = February 25, 1996 |access-date = July 1, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612165642/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/movies/up-and-coming-natalie-portman-natalie-portman-not-her-real-name.html |archive-date = June 12, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She turned down the offer but used the opportunity to get an acting agent.<ref name="vf06"/><ref name="rollingstone">{{Cite magazine |magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] |title = The Private Life of Natalie Portman: Rolling Stone's 2002 Cover Story |url = https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-private-life-of-natalie-portman-rolling-stones-2002-cover-story-20110120 |first = Chris |last = Heath |author-link = Chris Heath |date = June 20, 2002 |issue = 898 |access-date = July 4, 2015 |archive-date = December 2, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141202051246/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-private-life-of-natalie-portman-rolling-stones-2002-cover-story-20110120 |url-status=live }}</ref> She auditioned for the 1992 [[off-Broadway]] ''[[Ruthless!]]'', a musical about a girl who is prepared to commit murder to get the lead in a school play.{{sfn|Dickerson|2002|p=32}} Portman and [[Britney Spears]] were chosen as [[understudy|understudies]] for star [[Laura Bell Bundy]].<ref name="nytsm" />