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Birth Name:
Natalie Hershlag
Birth Place:
Jerusalem, Israel
Ethnicity:
Jewish Polish, Romanian, Austrian and Russian
The Israeli actress is famous for her role in the series, Stars Wars episode I to episode III. Her paternal grandparents were Jews from Poland and Romania, while her maternal grandparents were Jews from Austria and Russia. Some of her great grandparents died in Auschwitz.
She is able to speak Hebrew and studied French, Japanese, Arabic and German.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman
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Natalie looks like a typical Romanian. Dark hair, dark eyes, wide face, wide set eyes, exotic features.
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I completely agree :)
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Natalie is not exotic at all; in fact she is quite famous for being a classic beauty. I do not think her eyes or face are ‘wide’ either and having dark coloring is very, very common. Your colors do not make you exotic one iota anyway.
Just saying.
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I dont see anything classic about her; the other girl was right, she is SLIGHTLY exotic like rachel weisz.
that mila kunis chick I dont see how she is exotic and not classic.
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I agree with Vanessa; Natalie Portman is good looking but there’s nothing exotic or particularly Romanian about her appearance. Her features are pretty typical of Eastern European Jews. She could pass as a local in just about any country in northwestern Europe.
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She was born in Israel but her ancestors goes all the way back to Poland and Romania.
here is a great interview with her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNhwFPXmiU
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everyone who says ‘who cares?’ well, we care because it’s interesting to know where one’s heritage and ethnicity comes from. who cares? you make it sound like an intrusive question. if you don’t care about this then you must be an american idiot that is P.C. about everything from racial heritage to your toilet habits.
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who cares? she is a person, and as such, she is entitled to be, well, herself…. if she ISN’T, then yall aint entitled to be YOURSELVES… think about it…
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wasn’t her 1st role as that of a child of a marked man from the mob in that amazing movie “the assasin”? she was great in that.
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I believe your right Thomas. that movie was Leon.
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who cares’? she is so beautiful!
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who cares
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shes jewish danielle
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She has a mix of those backgrounds. You can see it by her appearance.
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Jewish father of Polish and Romanian origin??? Jewish mother of Austrian and Russian origin? SO is she ethnically Jew? Or is she not ethnically Jew but knows how to speak hebrew? Or is she all of the above?
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@DANIELLE UR REALLY STUPID! JEWS ARE LIVING IN LOTS OF COUNTRIES! SECOND, ROMANIANS ARE NOT RUSSIANS, THEY ARE THE SONS OF ROMAN IMPIRE, IN CASE U HEARD OF IT, BUT ONCE UR AN AMERICAN HAMBURGER EATER U MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
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Your stupid Kitty! Danielle is right. Natalie is part Russian, cuz mom is part Russian.
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She’s ethnically everything stated lol.
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