Admired as one of the greatest Hollywood actresses, Natalie Portman is an activist and an advocate for animal rights. She became a vegan in 2009 after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and later produced a documentary on factory farming systems in the U.S. by the same title.
In September 2017, she was recognized for her work on the film by the Environmental Media Association Awards with the Ongoing Commitment Award.