Natalie Portman's Accomplishments

Not all Hollywood starlettes are just glitz and glam. Like many, Natalie Portman has been involved in charity efforts and has become somewhat of an activist for beliefs and ideas she believes in. Above all that she holds her education highest. Born June 9, 1981, Neta-Lee Herslag in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only daughter of a doctor and an artist, with duel American-Israel citizenship. Natalie Portman, taking her gandmothers maiden name as her stage name, has numerous accomplishments. Most at a very young age. She attended public school at Syosset High School while filming several movies and insisted on no special treatment. She was very commited to her education. Despite her heavy work schedule she got top grades. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she expressed the reservations she had in making her acting a lifelong career, "There are so man things that interest me-- I love math, science, literature and languages."(Gale, 2000). Because of her love for languages, she has learned many, including; French, Hebrew, Japanese, German and Arabic. At age four she began dance lessons, another of her interests. She wrote and essay for Time Magaine, "From Teen to Teen, Thoughts

She was a memeber of National Honor Soctiety, also in honors calculus, she was a semi-finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her research paper, "A Simple Method To Demonstrate The Enzymatic Production Of Hydrogen From Sugar". She was also a member of Japanese and French club, the forensics team and she ran track. She also won a science award and co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals. She contributed to a study on memory titled "Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence: data from near-in framed spectroscopy" as well. Portman grauated Harvard in 2003 with a Bacholes Degree in Psychology. She then took graduate courses in