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Natalie Portman Pregnant - Actress Natalie Portman is engaged to a ballet dancer and choreographer and expecting her first child with him, People magazine reported on Monday. The 29 year-old actress met the French choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, during the production of her newly released movie, "Black Swan," which has earned her Oscar buzz. Millepied, born in Bordeaux, France, is a principal dancer and choreographer at the New York City Ballet. In "Black Swan" Portman plays a New York ballerina whose obsession with technical perfection takes a heavy toll on her mind and body. Natalie Portman Pregnant

Benjamin Millepied Engaged to Natalie Portman - Natalie Portman gave Christmas-coma-induced celebrity watchers and fans a shock Monday when she announced that she's pregnant and engaged to Black Swan co-star Benjamin Millepied. So just who is the man who stole Portman's heart? He's a 33-year-old French-born principal dancer at the New York City Ballet who choreographed the ballet scenes in the psychological thriller, for which Portman is garnering Oscar buzz. Benjamin Millepied Engaged to Natalie Portman When doing press for the film, the mere mention of Millepied's name to Portman triggered an automatic response: "I never talk about my private life." But Swan director Darren Aronofsky did. "I asked (Portman and Millepied) the other day if I get credit for that," he says. "They said, 'You get credit.' He is amazing. He is a serious guy who is doing very serious things with his life. I think it is a very good match." Ben...

Natalie Portman - People magazine reported this morning that Natalie Portman, the star of the sexy ballet thriller, is pregnant and that the father is her on-set coach and trainer Benjamin Millepied, to whom the actress is also engaged. She has since confirmed the report. The pregnancy, of course, wasn't arranged by distributor Fox Searchlight (we hope), but the news could boost the film just the same. Portman's movie is at this moment rolling out in a big way -- in fact, the art-house hit just nearly doubled its number of theaters as it tries to cross into the mainstream -- and having an actress in the news for a romance that began during the film's production will likely only help it. Natalie Portman It won't hurt, either, that there are some parallels between Portman's real-life story and the story of her character, Nina Sayers. No, not the hallucinating-about-a-doppelganger part. But the movie is, after all, about the transformation of a young woman's...