Before she was Padmé, Natalie Portman got her start acting in a rather controversial role in the 1994 action-drama Léon: The Professional. Portman, who was just 12 years old at the time, starred ...

Natalie Portman’s parents were completely against her playing Mathilda. In the original script, Léon accidentally walks in on Mathilda while she’s in the shower.

American actress, producer, and director. Portman has starred in various movies roles since her childhood and made her debut ...

Natalie Portman's career is marked by her fearlessness in taking on emotionally challenging and controversial roles, from her ...

Natalie Portman made her big-screen debut in The Professional as Matilda, the young girl at the heart of the movie. Three decades later, we know that Portman has become a major player in the ...

Natalie Portman has complicated feelings about the movie Since its release Léon: The Professional has been re-examined critically in the wake of the #MeToo movement following allegations that ...

In the movie, 12-year-old Matilda (Portman) is taken in after her family is murdered by an assassin named Leon (Jean Reno). She then develops an intense bond and infatuation with the professional ...

Portman studied psychology at Harvard University from 1999 to 2003, earning a bachelor's degree. Although she played fewer roles during this time, she nonetheless appeared in the 2001 revival of Anton ...

In 1994, a 12-year-old Natalie Portman starred in Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson’s cult classic action thriller about the unlikely relationship between a contract killer and his young neighbour, ...

Even 30 years after the fact, it doesn’t feel right to post a picture of young Natalie Portman that way. Immediately after this, Matilda dresses up like Marilyn Monroe and it has the same effect ...