Height: 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm), according to her driver's license.
Weight: Probably less than you.
Hair: Dark brown, often dyed a reddish-brown, fairly long and naturally curly; she blow-dries them straight most of the time for media appearances.
Eyes: Brown
Discovered: At age 11, by a Revlon model scout in a Long Island pizza parlor. This led to her getting her own acting agent, which soon led to her highly successful film debut in The Professional (a.k.a. Leon in Europe).
...In May 1999 "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace" opened in the United States. The effect it had on Natalie Portman's life can be described with one word: Exposure.
"The thing I feared most has begun to happen. People are becoming too interested in me as a person and not me as an actress. I have purposely tried to keep my personal life out of the public domain, but it's getting harder with each passing week."
(Calgary Sun 5/1999)
Her face appeared on merchandise and soda cans all over the world, she had to give countless interviews and soon bootlegs of the movie were spread all over the world via the internet.
