Padmé Amidala/Legends

Padm&eacute; Naberrie Skywalker, also Her Royal Highness, Queen Amidala of the Naboo and later Senator Amidala of Naboo (46 - 19 BBY), is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe played by Natalie Portman. "Padmé" is Sanskrit for "lotus flower," while "Amidala" is the spiritual manifestation.

Padmé is the wife of Anakin Skywalker and mother of Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker. She was the democratically-elected Queen of Naboo before representing the planet as a Senator in the Galactic Senate. Amidala plays an important role in the last years of the Old Republic.

In The Phantom Menace, she fights hard through political and violent means (of which she participates in personally) to rid her planet from the blockade of the Trade Federation. Aged in her early teens in this movie, she forms a close friendship with the very young (nine-year-old) Anakin Skywalker.

In Attack of the Clones, set ten years later, she is a Senator in the Galactic Republic's Senate after her two terms as Queen expired, leading a faction opposed to the establishment of an army to quell a separatist movement (surprisingly, given her career change, she retains an elaborate fashion sense and a constantly-changing wardrobe). After an assassination attempt on her life, Anakin, now an apprentice Jedi, is assigned to protect her. The two fall in love, though both of them are duty-bound to deny it. In the process of rescuing Obi-Wan Kenobi, they become directly involved in the first massed battle of the Clone Wars, where Amidala again shows herself to be rather more handy in combat than might be expected of a politician. The movie ends with Anakin and Amidala marrying in a secret ceremony attended only by R2-D2 and C-3PO.

In Revenge of the Sith she becomes alarmed by the changes in her husbands character as he is seduced by the Dark Side to the extent she conceals her pregnancy from him. Following the declaration of the Galactic Empire and the Great Jedi Purge lead by Anakin, Amidala joins with Bail Organa to declare the founding of a Resistance Movement that will become the Rebel Alliance. Travelling with Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet Mustafar she confronts Anakin to try and get him to turn back to The Force but he uses a force choke against. Doctors try to save Amidala's life but after the birth of twins, Luke and Leia she dies comforted by Obi-Wan. In Return of the Jedi however, Leia told Luke she remembered her mother dying when Leia was very young, and described her as very kind, beautiful and sad.