【封面人物：娜塔莉・波特曼：邻家有女已长成】娜塔莉波特曼光头
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翻译：许婉燕 这是一篇比较难得的人物介绍，行文简洁，脉络鲜明，语言尤其地道。大家不妨在通读全文理解大意的基础上，仔细体会作者是如何生动地运用语言吧。 There are many Hollywood-star things you will never see Natalie Portman do. Her large, innocent eyes 1)popping wide open when she saw 2)cocaine for the first time in Spain. Her only 3)sniffing addiction is to handbags. She wears 4)sneakers every day, and for special events like the Oscars or Golden Globes, she doesn"t even wear diamonds. Anyone who has spent time with her would be really surprised ?first by her 5)exquisite beauty, and then by the thing that sets her apart from almost every actor in Hollywood: a total, 6)intelligent 7)absorption in everything but herself. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem in 1981. As the daughter of an 8)infertility 9)specialist and an artist, Portman left Israel with her family at the age of three and moved to America. At 11, she was spotted by an agent searching for a child model. One year later, she won her first role as the girl next door for the critically 10)acclaimed film Leon (also known as The Professional), directed by Luc Besson and starring Jean Reno. The movie was a huge hit, and she has since been described as one of the most 11)promising actresses of her generation. While many teenage actors might have 12)struck while the iron was hot and moved to Hollywood, Portman went to college. Her life in Harvard was simple, since she would not accept any work during school days. So the three 13)episodes of Star Wars were completed during her vacations, for which she was paid enough millions on the back end that she could have 14)retired at age 18. At once, she became a global 15)household name and the face of 16)deity in the Star Wars 17)pantheon. Her biggest leap was 18)undoubtedly in Closer. Portman earned an Oscar 19)nomination and a Golden Globe for her performance, but she never got 20)puffed up over it. “I"m not 21)awesome yet,”she said. While most Oscar nominees 22)gleefully 23)rifled through their gift bags which are worth more than $100,000, Portman, her friend recalls, showed zero interest. For Portman, the most important thing she got out of doing the movie was its director"s devoted friendship and 24)mentorship. Following the 25)accolades brought about by Closer, Portman did another very Natalie thing: she left Hollywood in the dust and went to Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study for six months. The only things calling her back to Hollywood are interesting projects ?really interesting projects. Given her thirst for 26)probing complex questions, it"s no surprise that Portman jumped at the chance to work on the 27)controversial film V for Vendetta to test both her acting skills and her political 28)judgment. Often referred to as “the new Audrey Hepburn,”Natalie surely has a bright film career ahead of her, that is, if she decides to remain an actress, since one of her professors has said, “She could become a great lawyer, a great scholar, [and] a major creative 29)intellectual.”
很多好莱坞明星沾染的恶习，你在娜塔莉・波特曼身上却难以找到。当她在西班牙第一次见到可卡因时，那双纯真无邪的大眼睛竟惊异地睁圆了。她唯一的嗜好是收集手提包。她每天都穿运动鞋，而在奥斯卡或者金球奖颁奖典礼等特殊场合中，她甚至连钻石首饰都不戴。任何与她相处过的人都会感到非常惊奇―最初是因为她精致的美貌，然后是她与几乎所有好莱坞演员都截然不同的风格：她明智地专注于除自己以外的一切。
1981年，娜塔莉・波特曼出生于耶路撒冷。作为一位不育症专科医生与一位艺术家的女儿，波特曼3岁便跟随家人离开以色列迁居美国。11岁那年，她被正在寻找儿童模特的星探发现。一年之后，她获得了自己的第一个电影角色，在《这个杀手不太冷》（又名《杀手莱昂》）中扮演一名邻家小女孩，这部佳评如潮的片子由吕克・贝松执导，让・雷诺主演。影片轰动一时，而她也自此被形容为同龄人中最具潜力的女星之一。
许多年轻演员或许会在自己平步青云之际趁热打铁进军好莱坞，波特曼却进了大学。她在哈佛大学的生活很简单，因为她在上学期间不接拍任何电影，所以3部《星球大战》都是在她放假期间拍摄的，她最后获得了几百万美金的高额报酬，这笔钱足以让她在18岁时就退休。一夜之间，她成为全世界家喻户晓的面孔，也成为了群星汇集的《星球大战》中的一颗耀眼明星。
波特曼的飞跃之作无疑是《偷心》，她凭借在该片中的出色演出获得了奥斯卡提名和金球奖，但她并未因此洋洋自得。她说：“我还不够出色。”据波特曼的朋友回忆，当大多数获奥斯卡提名的演员在那些价值数十万美元的礼包中拼命搜寻礼物时，她却对此毫无兴趣。对波特曼来说，她在电影中获得的最重要的东西，是导演深挚的友谊和悉心的指点。
在《偷心》为她带来众多赞誉之际，波特曼又做了一件很具个人风格的事情：她把好莱坞抛在脑后，跑到耶路撒冷希伯来大学进修了6个月。
唯一能把她唤回好莱坞的就是她感兴趣的演出计划―而且必须真的非常有趣才行。在了解波特曼多么热衷于钻研复杂问题之后，我们就不必惊讶于为什么她会自告奋勇参演备受争议的《V字仇杀队》，以此来验证她的演技和政治判断力。
经常被誉为“新版奥黛丽・赫本”，波特曼的演艺前途一定会一片光明，当然，前提是她决定继续当演员，因为她的一位教授曾说过：“她可以成为一名出色的律师、一位出色的学者以及颇具创造性的知识分子。”
