Natalie Portman
The Harvard grad can do big-budget blockbusters (Star Wars, V For Vendetta) and character-driven dramas (The Other Boleyn Girl, Brothers) with equal amounts of ease, and has managed to avoid scandal and tabloid overkill despite living in the public eye since she was just 12 years old. And just when Portman’s star couldn’t possibly get any brighter, she goes ahead and wins a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar for her harrowing portrayal of a ballerina in crisis in Darren Aronofsky’s psychosexual masterpiece,Black Swan.
