Natalie Portman. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Actress Natalie Portman will play a Jewish housewife and mom turned investigative journalist in an upcoming limited series for Apple TV+. “Lady in the Lake,” based on a 2019 best-selling novel of the same name by Laura Lippman, will take place in 1960s Baltimore, where two unsolved murders push stay-at-home divorced mom Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to pursue her passion for investigative journalism. Joining the local newspaper as a crime reporter, Portman’s character is set “on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, played by [actress Lupita] N...