Natalie Portman worked with Satan.
Closer is a 2004 American melodrama film written by Patrick Marber , based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name . The movie was produced and directed by Mike Nichols and stars Julia Roberts , Jude Law , Natalie Portman and Clive Owen . Natalie Portman . Portman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for starring in the 2004 drama Closer , appeared in Star Wars : Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith the following year , and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta ( 2006 ) . V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by The Wachowski Brothers , based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd . Hugo Weaving portrays V , an anarchist freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts and Natalie Portman plays Evey , a young , working-class woman caught up in V 's mission , while Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.