Natalie Portman Overview

Natalie Portman's story about how she started her film career sounds like the old hanging-out-in-Schwab's-drugstore-in-Hollywood-waiting-to-be-discovered cliché. "Oh, the pizza parlor story," she says, recalling the 1992 encounter that changed her life. "I was in a pizza parlor after dance class one day when I was 11 and a man from Revlon saw me and wanted me to model and I said I wanted to act, so he introduced me to an acting agent and I started going out on auditions and that was it." Well,... See All