Natalie Portman gives birth to baby girl

Ms Portman, 35, and her French choreographer husband are already parents to son Aleph, 5. She was recently nominated again for best actress at this year’s Oscars for her role in Jackie, but skipped the ceremony having just given birth.

Though she is notoriously tight-lipped about her private life, Ms Portman described how parenthood had changed her in an article for The New York Times’ T Magazine  last summer.

In it she wrote: “[Parenthood] made me much calmer under stress, because there’s that weird parent thing you develop, that when things get really bad, your voice gets calm and your blood pressure slows, and you can make everything okay again.”