# Natalie Portman: beautiful, pretty, hot, or not? (special superficial poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-portman-beautiful-pretty-hot-or-not-special-superficial-poll/584896 "2011-06-09T19:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-portman-beautiful-pretty-hot-or-not-special-superficial-poll/584896/121 "2012-03-02T06:39:37Z")
She’s pretty and looks pretty hot when she’s naked. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-portman-beautiful-pretty-hot-or-not-special-superficial-poll/584896/122 "2012-03-02T17:23:37Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > As an interesting aside, she’s jewish and found it necessary to change her name from Natalie Hershlag to Portman. Both surnames are Jewish (I’d say that Portman is more “jewish” sounding than Hershlag to American ears), so I wonder why the need to change the name at all? It’s not like being Jewish in today’s Hollywood is going to hold her back. Maybe Portman just sounds better to some people… I don’t know. I don’t understand why anyone changes their name these days, and would think Hershlag would have been just fine. She changed her stage name because she was a child actress, and her family wanted to help protect her identity a bit. Now that she’s an adult, it’s less important that people know her “real” name. I voted the top three. Yes, I’ll take some, please. **Skald** , did you say you have some left over hookerbots? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-portman-beautiful-pretty-hot-or-not-special-superficial-poll/584896.md?page=6)