Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (Hebrew: נטלי פורטמן), born Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג) on June 9, 1981, is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
As a young child, Portman spent her school holidays attending theater camps where she developed her love of acting. After some experience in an off-broadway musical, she was cast in Leon (aka The Professional) at age 12. During the mid-1990s, Portman had roles in the films Heat, Everyone Says I Love You and Mars Attacks!, as well as a major role in Beautiful Girls.
In the late 1990s, she was cast as Padme Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. She placed a priority on her education, and pursued tertiary studies at Harvard University as a psychology major, despite the chance it might conflict with her acting career. Her recent roles include Garden State, Closer, and V for vendetta. For Closer, she received a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.