Natalie
Portman
is
best
known
as
Queen
Amidala
in the
George
Lucas
film Star
Wars:
The
Phantom
Menace
(1999).
Portman
made
her
mark
as a
coming-of-age
actress
in the
mid-1990s,
co-starring
in The
Professional
(1994),
Heat
(1995,
with
Al
Pacino)
and Mars
Attacks
(1996,
with
Jack
Nicholson).
Her
talent
landed
her in
Woody
Allen's
movie Everyone
Says I
Love
You
(1996)
and on
Broadway
starring
as
Anne
Frank
in
1997
revival
of The
Diary
of
Anne
Frank.
The
same
year
Portman
portrayed
Amidala,
she
began
undergraduate
studies
at
Harvard
University;
she
graduated
in
2003.
Her
other
films
include
the
Star
Wars
sequels
Attack
of the
Clones
(2002)
and Revenge
of the
Sith
(2005),
Cold
Mountain
(2003,
with
Jude
Law)
and Garden
State
(2004,
starring
Zach
Braff).