Dating history of Natalie Portman: Benjamin Millepied, Devendra Banhart, more

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Matters of the heart. Natalie Portman was private about her romantic life prior to her marriage to husband in 2012 Benjamin Millepied.

The Black Swan star only created an Instagram account in 2018. Two years earlier, she explained during an August 2016 interview with Business Insider why she had reservations about sharing her personal life on social media.

“For those of us who lived before it existed, it feels like the last thing you want to do. It’s so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don’t want to invite anymore,” she explained. “And you see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on, that’s really, really intense, and I’m lucky I grew up before all that happened.”

More recently, Portman shared a glimpse of her relationship with Millepied, with whom she shares son Aleph, born in 2011, and daughter Amalia, born in 2017.

“Ten years today @benjaminmillepied, and it keeps getting better…,” she captioned an August 2022 Instagram snapshot of the couple smiling and walking hand in hand.

Before exchanging vows with the French choreographer, the Oscar winner expressed doubts about the marriage. “I’m not convinced about marriage,” she said In style for their December 2007 issue, pointing out that “divorce is so easy” when “committing to one person” should be a “sacred” decision. The Israeli-born actress added that her ideal partner would be “someone who pulls me to high standards and who knows what’s going on in themselves and in the world.”

Though Portman kept her love life quiet before tying the knot, her past flames included Jake Gyllenhaalfashion designer Nathan Bogel and musician Devendra Banhart. The Closer actress began dating Banhart in 2008, starring in his music video for “Carmensita” that same year.

In November 2009, a year after the couple broke up, the “Golden Girls” musician revealed Vulture that he was still on “very good terms” with Portman. ‘She’s one of my best friends. I love her very much. Super much,” he said at the time.

Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, was spotted on a date with the Harvard graduate in New York City in 2006. Donnie Darko actor poked fun at his time with Portman as he presented her with a Desert Palm Achievement Award for her role in Black Swan in January 2011. While addressing his brothers costar’s vegan diet, Gyllenhaal said, “It gets tough when you go out to dinner with her.”

While Portman herself has rarely commented on past relationships, she called it quits in May 2019 Moby‘s claims they dated in the late 1990s.

“I was surprised to hear that he described the very short time I knew him as dating because I remember a much older man being creepy to me when I had just graduated from high school,” she shared. Harper’s Bazaar referring to the musician’s claims in his memoirs at the time, Then it fell apart. “He said I was 20; I certainly wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18.”

Moby, for his part, responded to the Thor the actress’s claims via Instagram, insisting the pair dated.

“I totally respect Natalie’s possible regret that she dated me (to be honest, I’d probably regret it too if she dated me). But it doesn’t change the factual facts of our short romantic history,” he claimed via Instagram at the time.

Keep scrolling to see Portman’s dating history over the years: