Actress Natalie Portman was born in Israel on June 9, 1981. Since she was a teenager, she has had a successful cinematic career.
She has acted in both blockbusters and indie films, and she has won several awards, including two Golden Globes and an Academy Award.
At the age of twelve, Portman made her acting debut in the action movie Léon: The Professional (1994), playing the young protege of a hitman.
She made her Broadway debut in a 1998 production of The Diary of a Young Girl while still in high school, and in 1999, she won worldwide acclaim for her role as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Did Mark Zuckerberg know Natalie Portman?
From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University; this was right before classmate Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook.
In the PEOPLE.com exclusive footage above, she says, “I think I was really lucky to have been there before social media.”