badmojo1006
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I gotta go with V for Vendatta, with Black Swan a close second
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What is Natalie Portman's signature role? (1 Viewer)
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Dan Lambskin
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Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
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I think Portman is considered one of the better female actors, but now actually looking at the list, none of those performances are really all that impressive.
I think Portman is considered one of the better female actors, but now actually looking at the list, none of those performances are really all that impressive.
whoknew
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I think Portman is considered one of the better female actors, but now actually looking at the list, none of those performances are really all that impressive.
I don't think she's a particularly great actor. I mean, she's fine - there's nothing wrong with her. But I don't think she's as great as ... Amy Adams or Keira Knightley or Alicia Vikander - to name some of her contemporaries.
She is, however, extremely attractive.
Don't Noonan
Footballguy
The movie where she got knocked up and deserted in a Walmart
skycriesmary
Climbing up the Walls
Black Swan, easily. Part of that is because Aronofsky knows how to bring out the best in his talent. Not sure if he gave her the bone.
rockaction
Footballguy
Went with Mathilda. Riveting performance by both lead actors. Pathos.
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rockaction
Footballguy
Aronofsky made Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans look like two of the best actors to ever grace a screen. Such solid performances by all three leads in that movie, Maid Marion (Jennifer Connelly) included.
eta* Been waiting for Aronofsky to cut something as meaningful as that movie for a long time. Black Swan really didn't do it for me.
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skycriesmary
Climbing up the Walls
rockaction
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It's risque and adult, but still excellently done. A little bit of morality with the tension of potential amorality, if that's possible.
skycriesmary
Climbing up the Walls
Requiem is one of my all time favorites, but a movie I just can't watch again. Aronofsky is brilliant in building tension over a long period of time. Before you know it, you were the frog in the boiling water. A perfect example of this is Mother.
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Kraft...
Footballguy
Agree! It's really draining to watch even if you know whats coming, especially the Mom's spiral.
Sweet J
Footballguy
I voted for her role in The Professional. But to me, it is a HUGE wiff not to include her role in Beautiful Girls. That may have been the first movie I saw her in, and it is really a toss up between that and The Professional. On any given day, I may choose the Beautiful Girls role.
Rustoleum
Footballguy
The ProfessIonal is the first thing I think of when her name comes up, and I don’t think she has a career at all if not for that movie, so I would call that a signature role in my book.
Now if the question was “infamous roles”, I agree it’s Amidulla all day.
Kraft...
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belljr
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bigbottom
Footballguy
The Wayans dig I get, but Leto is an Academy Award winner.
And to answer the question, Mathilda for me. That is the role that put her on the map.
bigbottom
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rockaction
Footballguy
It wasn't really that much of a dig. Leto is indeed an Oscar winner, Connelly is a universally-acclaimed actress, and I thought about that while typing out what I was typing. Regardless, I still think that triumvirate might have given the best performances of their careers, respectively, in that film.
IC FBGCav
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bigbottom
Footballguy
Agreed. Absolutely fantastic performances that I will only see once as I never again want to watch that movie. Oh, and add Ellen Burstyn to make it four potential career performances.
rockaction
Footballguy
Heartbreaking. Personal story, sadly: My mother told me my troubled and elderly grandmother got a similar letter and acted similarly, without the institutionalization or diet pills, but with the belief they'd actually chosen her. We both got really sad and quiet for a moment upon the retelling. I also agree that there's no need to watch Requiem again for me. Haven't since this decade began.
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NewlyRetired
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I think some of that shot was a body double.Also left out Your Highness, which has a phenomenal shot of her dairy air
https://www.salon.com/2011/04/18/natalie_portman_your_highness_body_double/
TheDirtyWord
Footballguy
I chose Black Swan...perfectly cast. But I loved her in Closer.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
She's great in everything. Only saw the first Star Wars (at the Coronet), feeling no need for the other two.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was just watching Ep1 with the kids. Definitely NOT that.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Correct answer is Black Swan.
