SEPTEMBER 10, 1999, THE BEHREND BEACON, PAGE 9 FEATURES Portman takes over as 'Queen' of Hollywood by Katie Galley editorial page editoi With jobs ranging from profes sional hitwoman to queen of an em pire, Natalie Portman has dune it all. Before she was Queen Amidala in Star Wars, she was just a kid living in Long Island. She is a young ac tress that has never ceased to im press audiences with her acting abilities and peers with her stead fast moral standards. Back in 1993 when Natalie landed her first movie role, no one had ever heard of her. She was just another kid-actor who would prob ably have her 15 minutes of fame and disappear hack into the wood work of fickle Hollywood. But when the movie was released, what came out on film proved to every one that she was there to stay. The Professional, in which Natalie portrayed an orphan living r:var Nationch Advertising • NOfip Oise Fees •Mattresses an = • • par y. se tore or P -tall . Ar c .ibrr .. , , 7, : II , . . • , • . ' 4 4 ' ~ .. •, . 4 , . , . . 1 : 5 Pc. k\ . : \'' ... .... . 1 4 '; ' I I . I • 1:4 1 1 111 0 0 ••\1 ~.., . .;,.t .... .0. L. 1 4 . , ii 6 . .. ,4 T, .•' . I , . • I, / ••• ' ' ) ' aet.. : .1, • , :.40 , , 99 , 1 1. ,1. , i i •. : I : , ~. 0 61 . ' ' 1 ,hilio t k. : ... Includes: Table & • .4 Four Chairs with and learning the life-style of a hitman. brought her acclaim from the highest levels of Hollywood. She was quickly dubbed as a young Audrey Hepburn. She was only I I years old. Soon after this she started acquiring movie roles that placed her with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Her role as the President's daugh ter in the movie Alars . Attacks let her work with Jack Nicholson. In Beautiful Girls she worked with Rosie O'Donnell and Matt Dill ion. And in Heat. she acted with Al Pacino. Then came her biggest role of all. Starring in Star Ilitrs, The Phan tom Menace is the role that will make her he remembered forever as Queen Amidala. In the movie, she played the young queen that would marry Anakin Skywalker, and watch him fall to ihe darkside as Darth Vader. Natalie will he in the Showroamfr„, dilii Perry ERIE (814) 455-5153 next two Star Wars movies, that we will keep her in the puhlic spotlight until at least 2003. In between the Star Vt'arc movies she is keeping busy attending col lege and making smaller-budget movies. In her breaks, while film ing the first Star Wars, she played Anne Frank on Broadway in the lat est adaptation of The Diary (I . Anne Frank. In the Fall of '99, she will ith Susan Sarandon in the movie Anywhere But Here where she portrays a girl forced to move to Los Angeles with her mother. Natalie has been very outspoken about her negative feelings towards drugs and alcohol and says that she wants to be a good role model for young girls. Pretty impressive for a young woman who . just turned 18 this summer. With all her attributes and talents. she will surely he around for a lung time. star w 74,2 Plaza, 2230 Broad St. 179 9 d mputer & Accessories Not Available. san Sarandon in Do YOU HAVE AN HOBBY ; -ACTIVITY, OR STORY ABOUT YOUR LIFE THAT NEWSWORTHY? IF YOU DO, AND SHARE IT WITH BODY, E - MAIL ACHIIB@PSU.EDU ATTENTION STUDENTS: INTERESTING YOU FEEL IS YOU• WANT TO THE STUDENT AND LET US KNOW!
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