Profile:
With a major part in the most anticipated film of the 1990s, George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace, repeated comparisons to Audrey Hepburn, and the drool of a thousand critics at her feet, Natalie Portman has emerged as one of the most promising actresses of her generation. Born in Jerusalem on June 9, 1981 to an artist mother and doctor father, Portman move to New York when she was three. Raised on Long Island, she was discovered by a modeling agent who signed her on the spot.
