| (September 8, 2016) Expecting her 2nd child with her husband Benjamin Millepied. |
| Inspired the Wachowskis to adapt David Mitchell's novel, "Cloud Atlas", into a film. |
| Portrays Jane Foster, the title character's love interest in Thor (2011). In 2014, Jane took over the Mjolnir and assumed the mantle of Thor, replacing him in his monthly comic book title. |
| She appeared in two films with Lukas Haas in 1996: Mars Attacks! (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). |
| She has appeared in two films with "I Love You" in the title: Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and New York, I Love You (2008). |
| Lived in Connecticut from 1988-90. |
| She has the same Erdös-Bacon-Number, as Albert Einstein, with an 11. |
| She lost 20 pounds for her role as "Nina Sayers" in Black Swan (2010). |
| She has made four films with Samuel L. Jackson: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Thor (2011). |
| One of only four actors with an Erdos-Bacon number - 7 for Portman. This represents sum of the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon (2) and degrees of separation from co-authoring a paper with famed mathematician Paul Erdos (5) having co-authored the peer-reviewed paper "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" while a student at Harvard. |
| Has starred in two film franchises in which she stars as a woman who falls in love with a warrior. The 'Star Wars' prequels as Padme Amidala and Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013) as Jane Foster. |
| Was the 138th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan (2010) at The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011) on February 27, 2011. |
| Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rachel Weisz. Neal is the only one to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Portman was 5 months pregnant with her son Aleph when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan (2010). |
| Named after Natalie Wood. |
| Los Angeles, California: Attended the 83rd annual Academy Awards with fiancé, Benjamin Millepied, and her parents, Avner and Shelley. [February 2011] |
| Does humanitarian work with FINCA International. [July 2005] |
| She holds the record for third-largest "Best Actress" award sweep (38 wins) for her role as Nina Sayers in Black Swan (2010), following Helen Mirren (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) and Cate Blanchett (41 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine (2013). |
| Named as one of the "most desirable" famous women for 2013 by Ask men's list of the Top 99 "most desirable" women. |
| When Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in September 2009 and awaiting extradition to the United States for having raped a 13-year-old girl back in 1975, Portman (along with Harrison Ford, Monica Bellucci, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody and many others) signed a petition to free him, even though Polanski did admit that he did have sex with the 13-year-old, committing statutory rape. |
| (August 4, 2012) Married her boyfriend of three years and father of her 13-month-old son Aleph Benjamin Millepied. It was a private ceremony in Big Sur, California. |
| Gave birth to her first child at age 30, a son Aleph Portman-Millepied on June 14, 2011. Child's father is Benjamin Millepied. |
| Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to her son Aleph in order to begin filming Weightless (2017). |
| Voted #21 on Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2012. |
| Served on the jury at the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards alongside Nicole Kidman and Jodie Foster. |
| Was a vegetarian from 1989 until 2009 when after reading the book Eating Animals she opted to become a vegan. However she resumed vegetarianism after falling pregnant with her son Aleph to give him the necessary supplements and also due to her insatiable craving for eggs and cheese. Following her son's birth she resumed veganism once again. |
| Participated in a live reading of the 1960 film The Apartment (1960) where she read the part of Fran Kubelik originally portrayed by Shirley MacLaine. The sold out reading directed by Jason Reitman was held on November 17, 2011 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Portman read alongside J.K. Simmons, Ken Jeong, Nick Kroll, and her No Strings Attached (2011) co-star Mindy Kaling. |
| Favorite actresses include Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. |
| On October 18, 2011, she added a fan-voted Spike TV Scream Award for Best Actress in the film Black Swan (2010) to the collection of other awards she received for the same film and category. |
| Is a huge fan of professional wrestling. |
| Owns and operates her own film production company, Handsomecharlie Films, with Annette Savitch. As of 2011, every film produced by the company (except for the short film "Eve", which Portman wrote and directed) has featured Natalie in a lead or supporting role. As well as acting in the films produced by Handsomecharlie Films, she is also credited as an executive producer. |
| In September 2011, she traveled to Paris, France with fiancé Benjamin Millepied and their son Aleph to celebrate Millepied's retrieval of an award from the French Minister of Culture. Millepied was awarded the "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres". |
| Was one of the first actresses offered the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) along with Carey Mulligan and Ellen Page, but Portman declined due to exhaustion. The role ultimately went to Rooney Mara. |
| Was the one who led her Brothers (2009) co-star Bailee Madison to Guillermo del Toro for a role in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010). Portman spoke about her young co-star with Alfonso Cuarón, who is a good friend of Guillermo del Toro, and then recommended Madison for a role. She ultimately was cast as a lead character, Sally Hirst. In July 2011, Guillermo del Toro spoke in an interview about how Bailee Madison was "a miracle" and that they had Portman to thank for it. |
| Is a spokeswoman for FINCA, a financial charity who gives and recycles small loans to women in poverty stricken countries so they can start small businesses. FINCA's president Rupert Scofield has spoken about feeling lucky to have Portman as a celebrity spokeswoman because she is, "extremely intelligent and committed." Portman has traveled to several countries as a FINCA ambassador and worked with many of the women FINCA's donations have helped. |
| Was ranked #8 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2011 list. |
| Was considered for the role of Dr. Ryan Stone in Gravity (2013), which went to Sandra Bullock. |
| One month before filming began for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Portman began taking daily classes to master the English accent under dialect coach Jill McCullough. |
| Where the Heart Is (2000) contains her first on-screen love scene. |
| Paid for all of her own ballet training to prepare for the role of Nina Sayers in Black Swan (2010). |
| In January 2011, she became the new face of Dior in the Miss Dior Cherie ad campaign. On February 27, 2011, a video of top Dior designer, John Galliano, going on an anti-Semitic rant in Paris surfaced online. Portman released a statement condemning Galliano's actions, specifying she was "shocked and disgusted," and as a proud Jewish woman refused to associate herself with him from that point on. Since the Miss Dior Cherie ad campaign was set to officially launch two days after the video surfaced, Dior was forced to take legal action to work out a settlement in order to keep Portman as a spokesperson. Galliano was fired on March 1, 2011 and the ad campaign launched as originally planned. |
| Was voted "Most Likely to be on Jeopardy" in the senior superlatives at Syosset High School. |
| Is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. |
| Did not have a Bat Mitzvah due to her parents being more secular than religious Jews. She attended a Conservative Jewish day school through seventh grade more to preserve her sense of Israel and her Hebrew than a religious motivation. |
| Was a resident of Lowell House during her first year at Harvard University. |
| She often broke down and cried offstage while part of the Broadway adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 1997, where she portrayed Anne Frank, because of her personal connections to the events. Her grandparents lost most of their family members in the Holocaust including her paternal great grandparents who were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. |
| In 2006, she appeared as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in a political science course titled "Terrorism & Counterterrorism". She led the class in a discussion about politically infused violence referencing her most recent film at the time, V for Vendetta (2005). Her appearance was part of an MTV short-series, "Stand-Ins", where college professors were replaced with a celebrity instructor for one day. |
| She entered a project into the Intel Science Talent Search in the late 1990s while at Syosset High School. Her project, titled "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar", took her to the semi-finals of the Intel contest. She graduated Valedictorian of Syosset High School in 1999 and went on to study Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University, graduating in 2003. |
| In spring 2004, she completed one semester of graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. |
| Was briefly referenced in The Social Network (2010). Portman was approached by writer Aaron Sorkin when writing the screenplay to the film to get insider information on Harvard University at that time because she was a fellow student of Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, and also Divya Narendra and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. |
| She has said one of the most difficult challenges of filming Black Swan (2010) was her speaking voice. She stated throughout her career, so far, director Mike Nichols has given her consistent criticism on how childish her voice normally sounds and encouraged her to work with vocal coaches to make it sound deeper and more adult. The role of Nina required her to regress backwards to make her voice more child-like. She felt it was taking her back to a point she worked hard to leave behind. |
| Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014). |
| Was considered for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), but Anne Hathaway was cast instead. |
| (March 6, 2009) In New York, she led a viewing of A Powerful Noise (2008), a documentary about women fighting adversity. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar held another viewing in Los Angeles, California. |
| (December 28, 2010) Engaged to Black Swan (2010) choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she is expecting their first child. |
| Was considered for the role of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010) after Emily Blunt dropped out of the project, but Scarlett Johansson was cast instead. |
| Was originally cast as Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights (2011), but was replaced by Gemma Arterton, who was later replaced by Kaya Scodelario, after dropping out of the project. |
| Best friends with Rashida Jones. Also close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Bryce Dallas Howard, Britney Spears, Mila Kunis, and Robert Pattinson. |
| (September 13, 2009) Was in attendance at the wedding of her Your Highness (2011) co-star Zooey Deschanel to Benjamin Gibbard. |
| She paid $3.25 million to purchase a four-bedroom, 4,866-sq.-ft. home in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills area. Previous owners were Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener (2009). |
| Sold her two-bedroom loft in Manhattan's West Village for $6.55 million. She purchased the property in 2005 for $5.7 million (2008). |
| Sold her 2,088-square-foot house in Sea Cliff, New York for $1.750 million. She had purchased it in 2002 for $1.375 million (2007). |
| Replaced Eva Green in Closer (2004). |
| Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. |
| Was listed as a potential nominee for the 2008 Razzies for Worst Actress, for her performances in Goya's Ghosts (2006) and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007). She didn't make the final ballot. |
| During the royal premiere of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), she met Prince Charles. The prince asked her whether she had also been in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which had been released four years before her birth. |
| Named #2 on Empire magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars (2007) and was ranked #2 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list (2008). |
| There is a band named after her: Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. |
| While in Morocco, she lived in a tent and traveled by camel. She visits Morocco regularly. |
| Unwinds by singing karaoke at Winnie's, a New York City bar in Chinatown. |
| Footage of her and Leonardo DiCaprio as Juliet and Romeo in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) was actually shot before executives had her replaced with Claire Danes due to the age difference between Natalie and Leonardo. |
| Listens mostly to R&B, old school hip-hop and 1990s alternative rock. Some of her favorite groups and artists are A Tribe Called Quest, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan and Nirvana. |
| She currently lives on Long Island, New York, and also shares a home in London, England. She has lived on Long Island, New York since she was a child (2007). |
| Director Milos Forman sought her out for an audition after seeing her on the cover of Vogue. He said that she looked like a Goya painting. |
| Named #61 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. |
| Has a slight indentation on her head, that was visible during the time she had her head shaved. The indentation was the result of being delivered by vacuum extraction. |
| Her father Avner was born on September 12, 1951, and her mother Shelley was born on June 9, 1952. Natalie was born on her mother's 29th birthday. |
| Her parents met at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. |
| Was considered for the role of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane (2007), which went to Anne Hathaway. |
| While in northern Iraq in 2004, the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry hung a giant poster of her in their command hanger after discovering that most of the men in the unit were big fans. |
| Attended a soccer game in Madrid with Stellan Skarsgård. Afterwards, the team gave her her own jersey. |
| Is close friends and well-known customer of Zac Posen, friends with Jeanine Lobell and her husband Anthony Edwards, as well as 'Jonathan Safran Foer'. Portman has also been friends with Isaac Mizrahi since she was 14, and friends with Mike Nichols and his wife Diane Sawyer since she was 15. |
| When she arrived at a London airport to do reshoots for the third Star Wars prequel, a customs official--going by her size--asked Natalie if she was traveling with a guardian. |
| Her years at Harvard resulted in the phenomenon of The Natalies, in which every underclasswoman with that first name received numerous e-mails and phone messages from fans. |
| As the first day of Cold Mountain (2003) filming fell on Halloween, Portman came to set dressed as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz", only to realize she was the only one who had dressed up. |
| For her 2003 New Year's party, she wore a Zac Posen dress that had more than $10,000 worth of crystals sewn onto it. She also attended Moby's much-hyped secret Naked NYE party. |
| Took diving courses in Eilat, Israel. Diving is one of her favorite hobbies. |
| Was surprised and amused to discover that her apartment in the heart of Kings Cross, London, was across the street from a brothel. |
| She became the first client of Artists Management Group to land representation at the powerhouse Creative Artists Agency. CAA refused to work with clients of its former founder Michael Ovitz's AMG; as soon as the one-time super-agent sold out his interest in the management firm, CAA went straight after Portman. |
| Said that it was while working on The Seagull (2002) that she became aware that acting is much more about the process than the product. Most helpful was when she would peek over Philip Seymour Hoffman's shoulder at the notebook he kept, in which he wrote questions and then answers about his character's feelings. |
| Once during an interview, she offered a metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the David Hare play "Via Dolorosa". It's about a man who jumps out of a burning building and lands on a passerby, breaking the passerby's leg. The passerby says, "You broke my leg", and the man breaks his other leg to shut him up. |
| Occasionally shelters dogs. |
| In 2005, she spent a few months in Madrid partying with Javier Bardem and friends. She was mostly unrecognizable to fans because of her Mohawk. |
| In 1999, magazines reported that Portman started a new trend - wearing logo T-shirts - when they snapped photos of her at her 18th birthday wearing a snug Nesquik shirt. (However, logo T-shirts had already been popular since at least the 1970s) She had borrowed the shirt from her best friend's eight-year-old brother; he was appalled. |
| Natalie is entirely of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Natalie's father was born in Israel and Natalie's mother was born in Ohio, in the United States. Natalie's paternal grandparents, Zvi Yehuda Hershlag (a member of the tribe of Naftali) and Mania Portman, were from Rzeszów, Poland, and Romania, respectively. Natalie's maternal grandfather, Arthur Edelstein, was born in New York, to a family of immigrants from Austria and Russia, while Natalie's maternal grandmother, Bernice Hurwitz, was born in Maryland, the granddaughter of immigrants from Lithuania/Russia. |
| A radio station once had a contest to find out where she went to school; Backstreet Boys tickets were the prizes. |
| Voted Peta's Sexiest Female Vegetarian in 2002. |
| Several months after shaving her head, she was traveling through Ireland and stopped for directions at a bed and breakfast. The owners refused to allow her even onto their porch. However, they did give her directions. |
| Says her performances in Everyone Says I Love You (1996) is her worst. Her failure, she believes, is her inability to improvise. |
| Named #49 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. |
| Named #42 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list. |
| Learned how to play the piano and conduct for Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007). |
| Worked with a vocal coach to learn how to speak with an English accent for V for Vendetta (2005). |
| Shaved her head for V for Vendetta (2005). |
| She hesitantly shot an explicit nude scene for Closer (2004), in the scene where Alice (Portman) strips for Larry (Clive Owen). Ultimately, Portman and director Mike Nichols agreed not to use it, as the scene was effective enough without it. |
| Bears a striking resemblance to Keira Knightley. Knightley played Sabé, the Queen's decoy, in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). When in makeup, not even the mothers of the actresses could tell them apart. |
| Has a song named after her by the band Ozma. |
| Had to miss the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) so she could study for her high school final exams. |
| She has worked with two Draculas as well as two Frankenstein monsters. In Léon: The Professional (1994), she worked with Gary Oldman, who played Dracula for Francis Ford Coppola. In Heat (1995), she appeared with Robert De Niro, who played The Creature for Kenneth Branagh. In Star Wars, she works with Christopher Lee, who played both roles for Hammer Film Productions. |
| Has a CD named after her by Chicago-based DJ Intel One. The CD was done for charity, given away, and titled "Love: A Tribute to Natalie Portman". It featured songs by Shelley Duvall, Common, The Roots and others. |
| Was considered for a role in Elizabethtown (2005). |
| She spoofed her role in Star Wars before becoming involved in the series. In Mars Attacks! (1996), she gives a medal to Lukas Haas in a scene resembling the award ceremony at the end of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The medals were given out by Princess Leia, the daughter of Portman's future character, Queen Amidala. In addition, the recipients of those medals, Haas and Harrison Ford, appeared together in Witness (1985). |
| She and director Tom Tykwer became good friends after working together on True (2004). |
| Has a song named after her by the band TeamSleep. |
| Her comedic influences are Lily Tomlin and Diane Keaton. She said in an interview, "I love Lily Tomlin and I love Diane Keaton. They're sort of my heroes. Diane Keaton can do anything. She's just the best there is." |
| Close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis and Bryce Dallas Howard. |
| Both she and Sofia Coppola have played the daughter of a character played by Al Pacino, and also both appeared in a film featuring Pacino and Robert De Niro. Sofia Coppola was in all three Godfather films (though she had only an uncredited part in the second), and Portman was in Heat (1995). Portman and Coppola appeared together in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). |
| Fashion designer Zac Posen refers to her as his "muse". |
| As a young girl, she was an understudy for the lead character in the off-Broadway show "Ruthless", alongside Britney Spears. They still keep in touch, and recently threw a party together in New York City. |
| She has worked with or appeared with several of her co-stars twice: Ashley Judd in Heat (1995) and Where the Heart Is (2000); Lukas Haas in Mars Attacks! (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Julia Roberts in Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and Closer (2004); Philip Seymour Hoffman in the play "The Seagull" and Cold Mountain (2003); John Carroll Lynch in Beautiful Girls (1996) and Anywhere But Here (1999); Stellan Skarsgård in Goya's Ghosts (2006) and Thor (2011); Olivia Thirlby in New York, I Love You (2008) and No Strings Attached (2011). She has also worked with director Mike Nichols on two occasions: for the play "The Seagull" and Closer (2004). She has also appeared alongside Jude Law three times in Cold Mountain (2003), Closer (2004) and My Blueberry Nights (2007), and with Hayden Christensen three times in the Star Wars prequels and New York, I Love You (2008). |
| Is trained in ballet, jazz, and tap dancing. |
| Favorite actor is Ben Kingsley. |
| Has a passion for travel. In late 2003 and early 2004, she traveled alone to Morocco and Guatemala. |
| Graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2003 with a Artium Baccalaureus degree in Psychology. |
| Voted the 15th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine. [September 2002] |
| As of November 2010, she has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) 15 times. |
| The makeup brand Stila has a lip gloss named after her. |
| Went to Usdan Camp for the arts as a child. |
| One of Teen People magazine's 25 Hottest Stars under 25 (2002). |
| Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002). |
| Grew up in Syosset, Long Island, New York, where she still resides. |
| Is very close to her parents and says, "The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they always love you.". |
| Became interested in acting after spending three summers at the prestigious (and expensive) Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp. |
| Auditioned for the role of young Amy March in Little Women (1994), which went to Kirsten Dunst. |
| Her father is a fertility specialist and gynecologist. |
| Takes pride in the fact that she is a role model for girls and choses roles that are positive so that they will have a positive role model to look up to. |
| Was reportedly caught using a fake ID trying to sneak into Boston club called the Roxy. The performer Moby insisted that she was invited by him and refused to perform unless she was admitted. She was admitted, and security watched her as she stood in the back, watched the show, and didn't drink. She later stated in an online interview that the story about sneaking into the Roxy club in Boston was not true and that she and her friends went home after they were denied entrance. |
| Has said in interviews that when she gets older, she would like to be a doctor like her father. |
| Said would never be in a horror movie or any other "Jennifer Love Hewitt type" film |
| Turned down the role of Wendy Hood in The Ice Storm (1997) because she felt the material was "too dark". The role went to Christina Ricci, who has said she often gets the projects Natalie turns down. |
| Moved to the United States when she was 3 years old. |
| Before she was cast in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), she had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy. She admitted to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), in 2004, that, before being cast, she didn't know the difference between "Star Wars" and "Star Trek". |
| Turned down the title role in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), due to her feelings about young adult actors/actresses being exposed to sex in films. |
| David Letterman and Harpers and Queen magazines said that she is "the new Audrey Hepburn". |
| She was discovered in a pizza parlor and was originally turned down for the role of Mathilda in Léon: The Professional (1994) because she was too young. |
| She went to Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp in 1994 and 1995 where she was Anne in "Anne of Green Gables" in 1994 and "Tapestry" in 1995. |
| She is an only child. |
| Was a member of the environmental song and dance troupe The World Patrol Kids under her real name, Natalie Hershlag. |
| Originally turned down the role of Ann August in the film Anywhere But Here (1999) because of the love scene between herself and Corbin Allred that required nudity. Susan Sarandon, who had co-star approval, said she couldn't continue the movie without Portman, so the script was re-written without the scene and she accepted the role. |
| Can speak two languages, Hebrew and English (her native languages), fluently. Also knows some conversational French, German, Japanese and Spanish. |
| Stated in a TV interview that with the exception of the Star Wars prequels, she will not act for the next four years in order to concentrate on studying at Harvard University (1999). |
| Has taken dance lessons since the age of 4. Still takes ballet classes. |
| Graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York in June 1999. |
| Turned down a role in The Horse Whisperer (1998) to act in "The Diary of Anne Frank" on Broadway. |