He may be engaged to one of the season's most buzzed-about movie stars but Natalie Portman's new fiancé, Benjamin Millepied, is a superstar in his own right in the world of ballet. Born in Bordeaux, France, to a decathlete father and a dance teacher mother, the principal dancer with the prestigious New York City Ballet was inspired as a child by Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights. But Millepied, 33, took his role as Portman's dance partner in Black Swan (which he also choreographed) because he admired Director Darren Aronofsky's work, and because he was certain "that I wasn't going into another sort of average,...
- 12/29/2010
- by Suzanne Zuckerman
- PEOPLE.com
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