Unlike many of her contemporaries who also started out as child actors, Natalie Portman has successfully managed to parlay her early success into an enduring career. Natalie made her feature-length film debut in 1994 with a key role in Luc Besson's The Professional, and has worked steadily ever since. She's taken on roles in acclaimed dramas such as 1996's Beautiful Girls and 2004's Garden State, starred alongside Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson in the Star Wars prequels, and has held her own opposite heavy-hitters like Jude Law, Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.