Angelina Jolie

Name: Angelina Jolie
Birth Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Height: 5 feet, 8 inches
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Birth Date: June 4, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actress, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Education: Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York. Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16. Majored in film at New York University.
Spouse: Billy Bob Thornton (actor, director; married in Las Vegas on May 5, 2000), Jonny Lee Miller (actor; married on March 28, 1996; separated on October 1, 1997; filed for divorce on February 3, 1999)
Relationship: Timothy Hutton (actor; dated 1998-1999), Jenny Shimizu (1996)
Child: Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie (born on August 5, 2001; adopted)
Father: Jon Voight (Academy Award-winning actor)
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand (partly of native American Haudenosaunee descent)
Sister: None
Brother: James Haven Voight
Claim to fame: Her full lips and many tattoos, as well as for her acting ability which garnered for her three Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jolie is also best remembered for playing the video game heroine Lara Croft.
Facts: "Jolie" means "pretty" in French. She boasts of Czechoslovakian, French and Native American roots. In 2004, voted as #6 on FHM’s “Top 100 Sexiest Women.” In March 2005, she was named THE sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine out of 15 million worldwide votes.
Awards: Angelina Jolie won in the ‘Breakthrough Performance – Female’ category for the movie Playing By Heart. It was awarded by the National Board of Review in 1998. Jolie earned critical praise for the HBO film Gia (1998) which was written and directed by Michael Cristofer. She won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as garnering an Emmy nomination for her poignant portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi who died of AIDS. She won the Golden Globe and a CableACE Award, plus another Emmy Award nomination for her role as Cornelia Wallace, the second wife of the controversial Alabama governor in John Frankenheimer’s George Wallace, opposite Gary Sinise.

Filmography: Actress

• The Good Shepherd (2005) (pre-production)
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) (post-production)
• Alexander (2004)
• Shark Tale: Gettin' Fishy with It (2004) (TV) (voice)
• The Fever (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
• Taking Lives (2004)
• Beyond Borders (2003)
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
• Life or Something Like It (2002)
• Original Sin (2001)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• Pushing Tin (1999)
• Playing by Heart (1998)
• Hell's Kitchen (1998)
• Gia (1998) (TV)
• Playing God (1997)
• George Wallace (1997) (TV)
• True Women (1997) (TV)
• Foxfire (1996)
• Love Is All There Is (1996)
• Mojave Moon (1996)
• Hackers (1995)
• Without Evidence (1995)
• Bat Out of Hell II: Picture Show (1994)
• Alice & Viril (1993)
• Angela & Viril (1993)
• Cyborg 2 (1993)
• Lookin' to Get Out (1982)


Biography

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is a California-born actress, who is as renowned for her exotic looks, full lips and tattoos, as well as for her acting ability. She is a respected artist and has received three Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the film Girl, Interrupted (1999). Angelina opted to use her middle name as her last name ("Jolie" means "pretty" in French).

Growing up in Los Angeles, Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, and being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight exposed her to show business at a young age. Her mother Marcheline Bertrand gave up her acting career to raise Angelina and older brother James Haven after their father left the family when Angelina was 6 months old. They divorced soon after and Marcheline gained custody of the kids.
At age 11, Jolie began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions. In 1982, Jolie made her film debut as Tosh in the film Lookin' to Get Out, which starred her father.

Although her childhood dream was actually to become a funeral director, 16-year-old Jolie worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles. Musical groups and singers such as the Rolling Stones, Lemonheads, Meatloaf, and Lenny Kravitz would cast her in their music videos, and even older brother James Haven Voight directed Jolie in five of his student films for the USC School of Cinema.
Wanting to get even closer to pursuing an acting career, Jolie studied at the Met Theatre group in L.A., whose famous alumni include Ed Harris and Holly Hunter.

Angelina Jolie gets her break

Jolie's first roles were in sci-fi flicks, with a supporting role in the 1993 movie Cyborg 2, which didn't even make it to the big screen, and a lead role in Hackers (1995), where she met future husband and British actor Jonny Lee Miller of Trainspotting fame.
On March 28, 1996 Jolie married Miller and she attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her husband's name painted in her blood on the back. They were separated within the year and Jolie and Miller divorced on February 3, 1999.

Her career as an actress, however, was gaining ground. She received critical acclaim in movies such as Without Evidence (1995), where she portrayed a drug-addicted teen; Foxfire, a 1996 Joyce Carol Oates adaptation, for her portrayal of a rebellious teen known as "Legs"; as well as in Love Is All There Is (1996), for her role as an Italian girl in love with the son of her family's rival.

In 1997, she landed a supporting role in the box-office bomb Playing God, starring David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton.

Angelina Jolie wins golden globe for Gia

Jolie's television roles were what gained her the respect of critics. She garnered the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination in 1997 for her role as Cornelia Wallace in the TV movie George Wallace, co-starring Gary Sinise. She won the Best Actress Golden Globe for her role as supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's biopic Gia (1998). Her intense role as the drug-addicted model who was diagnosed with AIDS made full use of her acting talents and led to her second Golden Globe. She earned critical praise for this HBO film which was written and directed by Michael Cristofer. She also received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as an Emmy nomination for her poignant portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi who died of AIDS.

Jolie also starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, True Women, based on Janice Woods Windle’s best-selling historical novel.

Angelina and Denzel as bone collectors

On the big screen, Jolie was well-received by audiences for her role in the 1998 movie Playing By Heart, with Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson and Ryan Phillippe. She also played Billy Bob Thornton's seductive wife in 1999's Pushing Tin, and starred opposite Denzel Washington in the thriller The Bone Collector later that same year. However, it was her supporting role in 1999's Girl, Interrupted that showed audiences her dramatic skills, garnering her a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Oddly enough, Jolie showed up at the Oscars with her brother James and planted a lingering kiss on his mouth after winning her award. The siblings later denied rumors that they were engaging in an incestuous relationship.

Of Goodwill and Men

In 2000, Jolie eloped with her Pushing Tin co-star Billy Bob Thornton (who is 20 years her senior and was living with actress Laura Dern at the time). Jolie then married Thornton on May 5, 2000, and together they adopted an orphan from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003, and she now has custody of Maddox.

In August 27, 2001, Angelina was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan.

As Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR, Jolie frequently travels to far-flung countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations. In 2003, she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries chronicling her early work with the United Nations. She makes four or five trips each year and has been to places like Tanzania, Russia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Equador and Sierra Leone. Equally important is the extensive media coverage of her trips, which raises awareness for the cause. She has also donated over a million dollars and she insists on paying for all of her own expenses on all of her trips.

Angelina is Lara Croft

Angelina has starred in a number of films including Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) with Nicolas Cage, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), for which Angelina is proud to say she did her own stunts, Original Sin (2001) with Antonio Banderas, Life Or Something Like It (2002), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), and Beyond Borders (2003).
The year 2004 saw Angelina starring in movies like Taking Lives, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alexander, and Shark Tale, where she lent her voice to the character Lola.
In early 2005, Jolie found herself in the middle of a well-publicized Hollywood "scandal" when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of the spy comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is something that she denies. In March 2005, she was named the sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine out of 15 million worldwide votes.

Family matters

Angelina’s amazing look comes from an interesting ethnic mix. Jon Voight’s grandfather was Czech, while Angelina’s mother’s background is actually Iroquios. Her mother’s side also came from Quebec, giving her a Czechoslovakian, French and Native American heritage.

To this day, Angelina and her mother are very tight. Marcheline frequently travels with Angelina and often babysits Angelina’s son, Maddox.

After that famous kiss, James is continuing to act in small roles – he played a hospital guard in Monster’s Ball and had a guest starring role in CSI in 2004. He also stars in a 12-minute short film, Rent-a-Person, which is a musical. He and his girlfriend, Rachael Anderson, enjoy playing uncle and aunt to Maddox.