natalie portman

Best known for her role as Queen Amidala in the wildly popular "Star Wars" prequels, Natalie was born in Jerusalem in 1981 and soon after moved to Washington, and then New York State, where she spent the rest of her childhood. At 11 she was discovered by a modeling agency, and less than a year later she was starring in Luc Besson's critically acclaimed "Leon" in 1994. She quickly found work after that, with parts in "Heat" alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You," and "Beautiful Girls" along another star-studded cast featuring Uma Thurman, Rosie O'Donnell and Matt Dillon, among others. After this, Natalie wisely decided to take some time off from acting and finish up with high school, eventually graduating a straight-A student, before returning to films.

And she returned in a big way, landing a star-making role as Queen Amidala, Darth Vader's main squeeze, in the Star Wars Trilogy Episodes I, II and III. This opened the door to new roles for her, including "Cold Mountain" with Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger, and "Closer" with fellow Golden Globe nominees Clive Owen and Mike Nichols. She has since taken another break from acting to concentrate on school, majoring in Psychology at Harvard.

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