Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman:

Born Natalie Hershlag
(Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג‎)
June 9, 1981 (age 30)
Jerusalem, Israel
Education Bachelor's degree
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation Actress
Years active 1994–present
Partner Benjamin Millepied
(2010–present)
Children 1 sonNatalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג‎; born June 9, 1981), better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.

In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.[3] In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer.

She shaved her head and learned to speak with a British accent for her starring role in V for Vendetta (2006), for which she won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance, and a Saturn Award for Best Actress. She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008.

In 2011, Portman won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the BAFTA Award for her lead performance as Nina in Black Swan.
 
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Natali's Neuromancer In Pre-Production

Ideas nicked from the books of William Gibson have been leaking into cinema sci-fi for years, but to date, the only official screen-Gibson has been the wretched Johnny Mnemonic, Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel, and an X-File. That's finally about to change though, with a press release from Seven Arts Pictures confirming that work is properly underway on Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer.

Natali began working on his adapted screenplay when he finished the publicity rounds for Splice around this time last year, reportedly with the approval of Gibson himself. Seven Arts have been drumming up international interest at Cannes, and, says COO Kate Hoffman, "Response to this cult cyberspace thriller has been tremendous; the film ticks a lot of boxes with distributors. The film will be a Canadian/European co-production, with principal photography taking place in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo and London."

Published in 1984 (two years after Blade Runner, which, when he saw it, almost caused him to stop writing), Gibson's Neuromancer was part of the vanguard of the Cyberpunk movement, which, in a nutshell, concerned itself with noirish plots about hackers, artificial intelligences, mega corporations and industrial dystopias. Surprisingly little of it has dated, and it was extraordinarily prescient about the rise of "cyberspace": a word actually coined by Gibson. Neuromancer forms part of loose trilogy with Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Natali described the project last year as "about evolving our minds, where Splice was about evolving our bodies." That's not to say there won't be some physical enhancements on show though, with key post-human roles like the technologically modified Molly to fill.

Preliminary work on the visual effects is underway, which is not in itself a guarantee of the film reaching its start date. But all being well, Neuromancer is expected to go before Natali's cameras in the first quarter of next year. (IMPIREONLINE)

Natali's Neuromancer In Pre-Production

Ideas nicked from the books of William Gibson have been leaking into cinema sci-fi for years, but to date, the only official screen-Gibson has been the wretched Johnny Mnemonic, Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel, and an X-File. That's finally about to change though, with a press release from Seven Arts Pictures confirming that work is properly underway on Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer.

Natali began working on his adapted screenplay when he finished the publicity rounds for Splice around this time last year, reportedly with the approval of Gibson himself. Seven Arts have been drumming up international interest at Cannes, and, says COO Kate Hoffman, "Response to this cult cyberspace thriller has been tremendous; the film ticks a lot of boxes with distributors. The film will be a Canadian/European co-production, with principal photography taking place in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo and London."

Published in 1984 (two years after Blade Runner, which, when he saw it, almost caused him to stop writing), Gibson's Neuromancer was part of the vanguard of the Cyberpunk movement, which, in a nutshell, concerned itself with noirish plots about hackers, artificial intelligences, mega corporations and industrial dystopias. Surprisingly little of it has dated, and it was extraordinarily prescient about the rise of "cyberspace": a word actually coined by Gibson. Neuromancer forms part of loose trilogy with Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Natali described the project last year as "about evolving our minds, where Splice was about evolving our bodies." That's not to say there won't be some physical enhancements on show though, with key post-human roles like the technologically modified Molly to fill.

Preliminary work on the visual effects is underway, which is not in itself a guarantee of the film reaching its start date. But all being well, Neuromancer is expected to go before Natali's cameras in the first quarter of next year. (IMPIREONLINE)