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After filming Where the Heart Is, Portman moved into the dorms of Harvard University to natalie portman nude -Hotel Chevalier pursue her bachelor's degree in psychology.^[1] She said in a 1999 interview that, with the exception of the Star Wars prequels, she would not act for the next four years in order to concentrate on studying.^[50] During the summer break, from June to September 2000, Portman filmed Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in Sydney, including additional production in London. In July 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols, playing the role of Nina alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.^[1] The play opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.^[51] That same year, she was one of many celebrities who made cameo appearances in the comedy Zoolander. In 2002, the film opened around the world. Portman was cast in a small role in the film Cold Mountain alongside Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.^[1]

Although she says her family was not religious,^[10] Portman attended a Jewish elementary school, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Glen Cove, New York. She graduated from a public high school, Syosset High School.^[1] Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I so she could study for her high school final exams.^[11]

As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in professional scientific amidala nackt journals. Her 1998 high school paper on the "Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen" was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search.^[20] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence" during her psychology studies at Harvard.^[21] Due to her scientific publications, Portman is among a very small number of professional actors with a defined Erdős–Bacon number.^{[22][21][23][24][25][26][27]}