Natalie Portman has revealed she has “100 stories” of sexual harassment in Hollywood – including receiving “rape fantasy fan mail” when she was just 13-yearsold.

The Oscar-winning actress opened up about her experiences in an interview with Porter Magazine, explaining she had endured harassment and manipulation from studio executives throughout her career.

And her problematic experiences began when she was a child star, with one so-called fan sending her a rape fantasy.

At 18, a local radio station made a countdown for her birthday – “the date I would be legal to sleep with” – and endured movie reviewers commenting on her “budding breasts” in their articles. Because she didn’t want to do “kissing scenes” earlier in her career, Portman also explained she was perceived “prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel like my body was safe and my voice would be listened to.”

“I felt the need to cover my body and to inhibit my expression and my work in order to send my own message to the world that I’m someone worth of safety and respect,” she said.

“The response to my expression, from small comments about my body to more threatening deliberate statements, served to control my behaviour through an environment of sexual terrorism.”