Natalie Portman starring in HBO show We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves from Friends co-creator

Natalie Portman will make her TV debut – outside of Sesame Street and a voice role on The Simpsons – for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; an HBO miniseries adapting the critically acclaimed novel by Karen Joy Fowler, shortlisted in 2014 for the Man Booker prize.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves centres around university student Rosemary Cooke (Portman), dealing with the disappearance of her “twin sister” at the age of 5.

With the current conversation largely championing TV over the silver screen, it should be no surprise another A-list actor has made the decision to branch out.