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BAFTA Awards: Natalie Portman wins the BAFTA Award for best actress

By Susan Kingwriter 
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At the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, Natalie Portman won best actress for her performance as a delusional ballerina in the psychological thriller ‘Black Swan.’

Portman is also the front-runner for the Oscar. The top British film awards and the Oscars have been aligning fairly closely in recent years.

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She was in competition with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, who costarred in ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ Noomi Rapace for ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ and Hailee Steinfeld for ‘True Grit.’

The awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, were handed out in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

-- Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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