Date of Birth
4 June
1975,
Los Angeles, California, USAJolie
was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California. In her
earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her actor
parents,
Jon Voight, an Oscar-winner, and
Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with
Lee Strasberg.
Her good looks may derive from her ancestry, which is German and Slovak
on her father's side, and French-Canadian, Dutch, German, Czech, and
remote Huron, on her mother's side. At age eleven, Angelina began
studying at the
Lee Strasberg
Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions. She
undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the
renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a
career in modeling and appeared in some music videos.
In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including
Hackers (1995) and
Foxfire (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies
True Women (1997), and in
George Wallace
(1997) which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination.
Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played the lead role in
the HBO production
Gia (1998). This was the true life story of supermodel
Gia Carangi,
a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a
difficult time handling professional success and the deaths of people
who were close to her. Carangi became involved with drugs and because of
her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of the
first celebrities to die of AIDS. Jolie's performance in
Gia (1998) again garnered a Golden Globe Award and another Emmy nomination, and she additionally earned a SAG Award.
Angelina got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature
The Bone Collector (1999), starring alongside
Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de force performance in
Girl, Interrupted (1999) playing opposite
Winona Ryder. The movie was a true story of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of
Jack Nicholson's character in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975), the role which won Nicholson his first Oscar. Unlike "Cuckoo",
"Girl" was a small film that received mixed reviews and barely made
money at the box office. But when it came time to give out awards, Jolie
won the triple crown -- "Girl" propelled her to win the Golden Globe
Award, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a
supporting role.
With her new-found prominence, Jolie began to
get in-depth attention from the press. Numerous aspects of her
controversial personal life became news. At her wedding to her
Hackers (1995) co-star
Jonny Lee Miller,
she had displayed her husband's name on the back of her shirt painted
in her own blood. Jolie and Miller divorced, and in 2000, she married
her
Pushing Tin (1999) co-star
Billy Bob Thornton.
Jolie had become the fifth wife of a man twenty years her senior.
During her marriage to Thornton, the spouses each wore a vial of the
other's blood around their necks. That marriage came apart in 2002 and
ended in divorce. In addition, Jolie was estranged from her famous
father,
Jon Voight.
In 2000, Jolie was asked to star in
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(2001). At first, she expressed disinterest, but then decided that the
required training for the athletic role was intriguing. The Croft
character was drawn from a popular video game. Lara Croft was a female
cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. When the film was released,
critics were unimpressed with the final product, but critical acclaim
wasn't the point of the movie. The public paid $275 million for theater
tickets to see a buffed up Jolie portray the adventuresome Lara Croft.
Jolie's father
Jon Voight appeared in "Croft", and during filming there was a brief rapprochement between father and daughter.
One
of the Croft movie's filming locations was Cambodia. While there, Jolie
witnessed the natural beauty, culture and poverty of that country. She
considered this an eye opening experience, and so began the humanitarian
chapter of her life. Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the
world and came to be formally appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some of her
experiences were written and published in her popular book "Notes from
My Travels" whose profits go to UNHCR.
Jolie has stated that she
now plans to spend most of her time in humanitarian efforts, to be
financed by her actress salary. She devotes one third of her income to
savings, one third to living expenses and one third to charity. In 2002,
Angelina adopted a Cambodian refugee boy named Maddox, and in 2005,
adopted an Ethiopian refugee girl named Zahara. Jolie's dramatic feature
film
Beyond Borders
(2003) parallels some of her real life humanitarian experiences
although, despite the inclusion of a romance between two westerners,
many of the movie's images were too depressingly realistic -- the film
was not popular among critics or at the box office.
In 2004, Jolie began filming
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) with co-star
Brad Pitt.
The film became a major box office success. There were rumors that Pitt
and Jolie had an affair while filming "Smith". Jolie insisted that
because her mother had been hurt by adultery, she herself could never
participate in an affair with a married man, therefore there had been no
affair with Pitt at that time. Nonetheless, Pitt separated from his
wife
Jennifer Aniston
in January 2005 and, in the months that followed, he was frequently
seen in public with Jolie, apparently as a couple. Pitt's divorce was
finalized later in 2005.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005),
Wanted (2008),
Salt (2010) and
Maleficent
(2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in
international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She
often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a
personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.
Jolie and Pitt announced in early 2006
that they would have a child together, and Jolie gave birth to daughter
Shiloh that May. They also adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy named
Pax. The couple, who married in 2014, continue to pursue movie and
humanitarian projects, and now have a total of six children.
Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who became popular
after playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as
well as
- IMDb Mini Biography By:
Roger Burns <rogerburns@pobox.com>
ita Nyongo has been on the news twice this week for some rather unsavory
reasons; one, she was accused of being a manipulative bish who not only
snubbed cast members but was a diva on set making everything revolve
around her.
The second time the Star wars actress made news this week was when
she was photographed getting off a car, clad in a tiny miniskirt her
black panties showing for all to see. But that is not the only reason
that the internet is buzzing, the 12 years a slave Oscar winner was also
donning dark sun glasses in the dead of the night prompting fashion
police to question the legitimacy of the glasses as a fashion statement
especially in the pitch darkness.
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