Although only in her early Thirties, Natalie Portman has starred in more than three dozen films, including the Academy Award-winning Black Swan, Cold Mountain, V for Vendetta, Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III, and The Professional. In Natalie Portman's Stark Reality: A Biography, James L. Dickerson traces Portman's early development, from her Israeli roots to her first appearance in Hollywood-and takes the reader step-by-step through her professional and personal triumphs and challenges, right up to the present day. A consummate actress, she has been called the Meryl Streep of her generation.
Although only in her early Thirties, Natalie Portman has starred in more than three dozen films, including the Academy Award-winning Black Swan, Cold Mountain, V for Vendetta, Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III, and The Professional. In Natalie Portman's Stark Reality: A Biography, James L. Dickerson traces Portman's early development, from her Israeli roots to her first appearance in Hollywood-and takes the reader step-by-step through her professional and personal triumphs and challenges, right up to the present day. A consummate actress, she has been called the Meryl Streep of her generation.