Natalie Portman shows off her pins as she hits the beach with her husband and daughter in Sydney

She is enjoying some downtime with her family in Australia ahead of filming Marvel sequel Thor: Love and Thunder.

And on Saturday, Natalie Portman, 39, spent quality time with her husband Benjamin Millepied and their daughter Amalia.

The actress showed off her trim pins in tiny denim shorts as she soaked up the sun at a beach in Sydney.

She completed her ensemble with a black T-shirt and wore a blue hat and sunglasses to shield herself from the sun.

Natalie was spotted building sandcastles with her three-year-old daughter Amalia as her husband stood nearby.

Benjamin, 43, also looked casual in black shorts and a matching coloured T-shirt for the outing.

He completed his ensemble with a black cap and wore flip flops as he glanced at his phone while his daughter played on the sand.

The sighting comes as Natalie prepares to begin filming Thor: Love and Thunder with Chris Hemsworth.

The film will see Natalie’s character, astrophysicist Jane Foster, take up the mantle of Thor after transforming into a female version of the Norse god.

‘It’s going to be really silly and funny and great,’ Natalie recently said of the project.

Explaining how she was approached for the film, she told Entertainment Tonight last year: ‘They came to me with the idea and said, “We have this idea for you that was a storyline in some of the comics where Jane becomes Lady Thor,” and I was like, “This is very exciting!”‘

Natalie has also appeared in 2011’s Thor and the 2013 sequel Thor: The Dark World, but skipped 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.