Born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie starred
in the HBO biopic Gia before
earning an Academy Award for best supporting actress for Girl,
Interrupted. Jolie has become one of Hollywood's top marquee names,
having starred in movies like Wanted, Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, Salt and Changeling. She's also directed the
film In the Land of Blood and Honey, and is coupled with actor Brad
Pitt.
Early
Life
Actress and
humanitarian Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles,
California, to actor Jon Voight and
actress Marcheline Bertrand. She rose to stardom in the 1990s. She began acting
at a young age, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater
Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University.
In the 1990s,
Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in
the 1998 television film Giabased
on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden
Globe Award for Best Actress.
Another great
dramatic role inGirl, Interrupted (1999)
brought Jolie her first Academy Award (for best supporting actress). She has
continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in
the Lara Croft films,
a FBI profiler in Taking Lives(2004),
an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
and a neglected, troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd (2006).
In 2007, Jolie gave
a brilliant performance as Mariane Pearl, the pregnant widow of Wall Street Journal reporter
Danny Pearl, in A Mighty Heart.
The film was based on Mariane Pearl's account of her husband's abduction and
murder.
A devoted humanitarian, Angelina Jolie was made a Goodwill
Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001. She has made headlines for her
work to obtain aid for refugees in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to name just a
few.
In 2005, Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Action
Award from the United Nations Association of the USA for her activism on behalf
of refugee rights. She continues to travel the world to drawing attention to
global issues.
In October 2008,
Jolie appeared in the Clint Eastwood-directed
thriller Changeling. Jolie
played Christine Collins, a mother whose son reappears after his kidnapping.
Collins is sure the returned boy is not the one to whom she gave birth, and her
fight reveals a police conspiracy. In 2009, Jolie received an Oscar nomination
for best actress for her role in the film.
The actress went on
to earn the lead role in the action-packed Salt(2010), about a CIA agent, Evelyn Salt, who is on the run
after being accused of being a Russian spy. That same year, she earned the
featured part of Elise Clifton-Ward in The Tourist alongsideJohnny Depp.
She has since been cast in the title role of Maleficent, slated to be released in 2014, and is scheduled to
reprise her role as Evelyn Salt in Salt
2.
Famous for her off-screen romances, Angelina Jolie has
been married twice.
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