Natalie Portman
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Natalie Portman’s directorial debut will open the Venice International Film Festival’s short-film sidebar, with the actress expected to be on hand for the picture’s September 1 screening.
Portman’s 17-minute “Eve,” which Venice organizers called “a civilized comedy,” stars Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara. It will screen in an out-of-competition slot.
The festival runs August 27-September 6.
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City’s Public Theater production of Chekhov’s The Seagull, alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.[1] In 2005, Portman received a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress in the drama Closer. In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury.[3]
The 65th Venice International Film Festival organizers have announced that the fest’s shorts competition will kick off September 1st, 2008, with Natalie Portman’s directorial debut, Eve.
Portman’s parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University where her mother was selling tickets. Her father returned to Israel, but the two corresponded and were married when her mother visited Israel a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the family moved from Israel to the United States, where her father pursued his medical training. The family first lived in Washington, D.C., where she attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, but relocated to Connecticut in 1988, and then settled permanently in Long Island, New York, in 1990.[1] Portman has said that although she “really love[s] the States… my heart’s in Jerusalem. That’s where I feel at home.”[9] She is an only child and very close to her parents,[1] who are often seen with her at her film premieres.
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