Who Is Natalie Portman Husband? Is She Dating?

Who is Natalie Portman’s husband? Is she married? Read on as we take a closer look at the marriage life of actress Natalie Portman.

Who Is Natalie Portman?

Natalie Portman is an award-winning Israeli-born American actress, film producer and director born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem to Avner Hershlag and Shelley who now works as her agent. The family later moved to the U.S. and first settled in Washington DC.

They were on the move again in 1988, this time to Connecticut and moved again two years later to Long Island. She took ballet and modern dance lessons at the American Theater Dance Workshop while growing up and was later approached by an agent who wanted her to become a child model.

However, she had no interest in modelling and hence decided to go into acting instead. She started going for auditions in the early 1990s and the rest is history. As we speak, she has done over forty films and TV series and has won some notable awards as well.

Her highest-grossing films include Annihilation (2018), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Black Swan (2010), Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (1999), V for Vendetta (2005), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), etc.

As an actress, Portman has enjoyed a lot of success over the years and has won several awards as well. She won Best Actress in 2010 at the Austin Film Critics Association for her role in Black Swan.

That same year, she won Bravest Performance Award and Unforgettable Moment Award at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for her role in Black Swan. Other wins include 1 Academy Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award, etc.

She has also produced or directed films like May December (2023), Vox Lix (2018), Eating Animals (2017), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), No Strings Attached (2011), Hesher (2010), etc.

Who Is Natalie Portman Husband?

French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied is the husband of actress Natalie Portman. The couple have been married since August 2012 after dating for about three years.

Portman and Millepied first met on the set of “Black Swan” and started dating shortly after. They then became husband and wife on August 4, 2012, in Big Sur, California.

Benjamin Millepied is a popular French dancer and choreographer born on June 10, 1977, in Bordeaux, France to Denys Millepied and Catherine Flory. He started taking ballet lessons right from his childhood and today is one of the most successful French dancers.

His mother was also a ballet and was the one who gave him his early lessons at the age of 8. He later trained at the Conservatoire National in Lyon, France when he was 13 and then in 1992 attended the School of American Ballet (SAB).

As we speak, he is recognized as one of the most successful French dancers. He was awarded the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 1995, a year after he was given the “Prix de Lausanne”.

The French Ministry of Culture honoured him in 2010 by making him the Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.

How Many Children Does Natalie Portman Have With Her Husband?

Portman’s marriage to Millepied has produced two children, a son and a daughter named Aleph and Amalia.

Aleph was born in 2011, a year before they got married and gave birth to their daughter, Amalia in 2017.