Natalie Portman

Nude movie roles: XXX

Place of birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Date of birth: 1981-06-08

"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers." Perhaps that explains why it took so long for us to ogle Natalie Portman's best parts. This Israeli-born, straight-A Harvard psychology major was discovered in a pizza shop at age eleven in New York. While threatening to become a doctor like her OB/GYN father, Natalie's enjoyed a meteoric movie career, despite turning down some really hot properties, most of which subsequently went to Christina Ricci and made her a star! In her debut, The Professional (1994), this slim, dark, olive-skinned, and somewhat exotic looking hottie was tagged with "star quality." Best known for her character Queen Amidala in the blockbuster Star Wars prequels, her other notable films include: Heat (1995), Ted Demme's Beautiful Girls (1996), and V for Vendetta (2006). Considering herself a role model to younger women, however, she once led a crusade against nudity in the movies. Favoring math because "There's always an answer," this intelligent young lady, unlike similarly brilliant Harvard and Yale grads (meaning flesh-baring heroines like Elisabeth Shue and Jodie Foster), for too long used any one of the four languages she speaks (English, Hebrew, Japanese, and French) to say "No!" to onscreen skin! Fortunately, with age, Natalie came to grasp the shortsightedness of her initial ideas regarding skin on screen. In the 2004 romance Closer, she stunned the world with a view of her ravishing, rock-hard, beauteous gluteus clad in what looks to be the skimpiest thong ever ass-embled, and in Hotel Chevalier (2007) she checked out . . . of her undies!