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Full Name :
Angelina Jolie Voight
Date Of Birth : 4 June 1975
Place Of Birth : Los Angeles, California
Sign : Gemini
Height : 5'7
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Blue
Children : Maddox Chivan (adopted from
Cambodia, 2002), Zahara Marley (adopted from Ethiopia, 2005) , Shiloh Nouvel
Jolie-Pitt (fathered by Brad Pitt), Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
(adopted from Vietnam, 2007)
Father : Jon Voight
Mother : Marcheline Bertrand
Brother : James Haven Voight
Spouse(s) : Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999)
Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003)
Brad Pitt (2005–present)
"Acting is not pretending or lying. It’s finding a side of
yourself that’s the character and ignoring your other sides. And
there’s a side of me that wonders what’s wrong with being
completely honest."
-Angelina Jolie
Raised mostly by her mother after her parents divorced while she
was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and
brother. She also did a fair amount of traveling as a
professional model, living in such places as London, New York,
and Los Angeles before settling for a time in New York as a
student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York
University, where she first started acting in theater
productions. The fledgling actress soon moved on to film with a
small role in 1993's Cyborg 2, followed in 1995 by her turn as a
computer hacker in the more widely seen Hackers. The film gave
her her first taste of recognition, as well as an introduction
to Trainspotting's Jonny Lee Miller, to whom she was married for
a short time.
After appearing in a number of mediocre films, Jolie finally hit
it big in 1997 with her Golden Globe-winning performance as
George Wallace's wife in the highly acclaimed TV movie George
Wallace. The role, coupled with her Emmy-nominated performance
in the title role of HBO's Gia, provided Jolie with a new level
of professional respect and recognition. She was soon appearing
on talk shows and in magazines, answering questions about
everything from her multiple tattoos to her famous father to her
brief marriage.
She was also netting roles in high-profile projects: In 1998
Jolie headlined an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery,
Gena Rowlands, Anthony Edwards, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe,
and Madeline Stowe in Playing By Heart. The following year, she
was part of another high-voltage cast in Mike Newell's Pushing
Tin, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and
Cate Blanchett. Although the film was neither a critical nor a
financial success, it did little to diminish the rapid ascent of
the career of the actress, who was in hot demand for projects
that would further elevate her already rising star. In 2000,
Jolie's star received one of its greatest boosts to date when
the actress won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for
her portrayal of a volatile mental patient in Girl, Interrupted.
Later that year, her personal life also got a boost in the form
of her April marriage to Billy Bob Thornton.
Onscreen, Jolie was hard to miss in 2000. She starred in a
number of films, including the crime thriller Gone in Sixty
Seconds, in which she co-starred as a car thief alongside
Nicolas Cage, and Original Sin, a thriller that featured her as
the bad-seed bride of a Cuban tycoon (Antonio Banderas). If she
was hard to miss in 2000, Jolie was impossible to escape in 2001
with her turn as shapely video-game adventuress Lara Croft in
the long anticipated film adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider
video-game franchise. Carrying on the tradition of video-game
movies that are light on plot but heavy on the action, Tomb
Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (2003)
scored with summer audiences and quickly shot to number one at
the box office despite disparaging reviews citing an incoherent
story line, unlike Life or Something Like It, the 2002 romantic
comedy-drama that critics and audiences alike would rather not
have seen.
On July 18th, 2002, Jolie filed for divorce from Billy Bob
Thornton, claiming that their priorities no longer meshed after
having adopted a child. Though the famously quirky couple were
no longer, Angelina's film schedule remained hectic. In 2003 she
would play a rich-girl-turned-humanitarian in Beyond Borders,
while 2004 promised a host of parts for Jolie, including a role
in Oliver Stone's Alexander; an epic biography of Alexander the
Great starring Colin Farrell, as well as a role alongside fellow
Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow in The World of Tomorrow, and a
turn as a tough FBI agent in Taking Lives. She has since adopted
several more children and became involved with leading man Brad
Pitt, who fathered her daughter Shiloh.
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