Actor: Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman debuted at thirteen in Leon: The Professional, a role that has generated a great deal of discussion since about what the film asks of a child performer.

She completed a psychology degree at Harvard while working, which she has said was a deliberate decision to have something other than acting.

Black Swan won her Best Actress, requiring a year of ballet training and a performance of psychological disintegration that is physically punishing to watch.

Jackie is the better performance, playing Jacqueline Kennedy in the days after the assassination, and she directed A Tale of Love and Darkness in Hebrew.