Natalie Portman Biography (4)
Natalie Portman has established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented and sought after young actresses. Portman was most recently seen in George Lucas's blockbuster hit Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones reprising the role of Queen Amidala which she introduced in Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. Last summer, Portman received critical acclaim in the role of Nina in Mike Nichols' production of a Tom Stoppard version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull opposite Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Philip Seymour Hoffman at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Portman's most recent films include the coming of age story Where the Heart Is and Wayne Wang's Anywhere But Here, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In other screen work, she received international acclaim for her feature debut in Luc Besson's The Professional and in Beautiful Girls. She also starred in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You, Tim Burton's black comedy, Mars Attacks! and Michael Mann's Heat with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer. In November 1997, Portman began a six-month starring role on Broadway in the title role of The Diary of Anne Frank, which was praised by USA Today as a landmark performance. She recently completed Garden State written and directed by Zach Braff, of television's Scrubs and will appear in the forthcoming Star Wars: Episode 3.
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