No, Natalie Portman’s Maddie Schwartz in Lady in the Lake is not based on a real journalist. Schwartz is a fictional character created by author Laura Lippman.

It's the heat and heart of its ambition that's undeniable. Portman excels as Maddie Schwartz, an unhappy Jewish housewife who leaves her husband (Brett Gelman) to pursue a career as a journalist ...

Natalie Portman stars as Maddie Schwartz, a 1960s housewife in Baltimore who is inspired to leave her husband and become an investigative reporter after two shocking deaths occur in the city.

These crimes inspired Laura Lippman to write her 2019 novel, in which multiple narrators tell the stories of aspiring newspaper reporter Maddie Schwartz, a Jewish woman trying to establish herself ...

Maddie Schwartz is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman, right, with Mikey Madison) leaves her family to start a new career investigating murders in “Lady in the Lake.” ...

Ms. Portman’s Maddie Schwartz wherever she is headed in her investigation of murder most foul in 1966 Baltimore. Not being familiar with Ms. Lippman’s well-regarded book, I can’t say if the ...

Maddie Schwartz (Portman), a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Ingram), a mother navigating the ...

The Academy Award winner explained that her role as Jewish investigative journalist Maddie Schwartz in the upcoming limited series Lady in the Lake, premiering July 19 on Apple TV+, presented an ...

In one of this episode’s strongest sequences, an emotionally exhausted and thoroughly stoned Maddie Schwartz has sex with police officer Ferdie Platt, a Black man. Even a glancing acquaintance ...

Alma Har'el's adaptation of the Laura Lippman novel features Portman and Moses Ingram in a story of race, class, murder and journalism in 1960s Baltimore. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television ...