Angelina Jolie Biography Filmography Awards

Angelina Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is French and his father was from Czechoslovakia.As a teenager, Jolie dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies.

She is known for her exotic looks, her tumultuous off-screen life, and her humanitarian work with refugees. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Girl, Interrupted.

Her first starring role came in the 1995 movie Hackers. She had roles in several box office flops until 1999, when she co-starred in The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted. Her first headlining blockbuster role came from 2001's video game based Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Several of her subsequent movies, such as Life or Something Like It, Alexander, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, were major box office disappointments, although Jolie herself usually received good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film, Shark Tale.
Nonetheless she has become one of Hollywood's most "in-demand" actresses. Following the success of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, she's set to earn up to $15 million to star in the film The Good Shepherd. Besides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie has also worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles and appeared in numerous music videos including those of Korn, Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones.

On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the movie Hackers. Jolie and Miller divorced on February 3, 1999. Angelina Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000. Their relationship was a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Angelina Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual. In an interview with a British tabloid, model Jenny Shimizu claimed that Angelina and her has a long-standing romantic and sexual relationship.

In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the center 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. Speculation over the nature of Jolie and Pitt's relationship continued throughout the summer of 2005. On January 11, 2006, both Jolie's and Pitt's representatives confirmed, through People Magazine, that the two were expecting their first biological child in Summer 2006, thus indirectly confirming for the first time that they were in a relationship.

Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001, and frequently travels to remote countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations.
Since taking on her goodwill ambassador duties, Jolie has on numerous occasions made public statements that she wants to quit acting and concentrate on her UN work. However, she has also stated that her work provides the income necessary for her to continue travelling the world on behalf of the UN.

While they were married, Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton adopted a son from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001. After they divorced, Jolie took full custody of Maddox. On July 5, 2005, People magazine reported that Jolie was in the final stages of adopting a baby girl, who was orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia, through the agency Wide Horizons for Children. Jolie has named her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. American magazine US Weekly indicated erroneously that Jolie and Brad Pitt had adopted Zahara together. When the magazine realized its error, the presses were stopped and an apology issued to Jolie and Pitt; printing of the issue resumed with the correction made, though a number of copies with the error were still released to the public. Reportedly, however, Pitt was present when Jolie signed the adoption papers. The agency later said Brad Pitt was not present when Angelina Jolie picked up her daughter.

On December 2, 2005, it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children. In support of this bid (and as part of legal requirements), Jolie took out classified advertisements in the Los Angeles paper, the Daily Commerce, announcing the name change request, and on January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal surnames were formally changed to Jolie-Pitt.

Filmography

Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Cyborg 2 (1993)
Angela & Viril (1993) (short subject)
Alice & Viril (1993) (short subject)
Without Evidence (1995)
Hackers (1995)
Mojave Moon (1996)
Love Is All There Is (1996)
Foxfire (1996)
Playing God (1997)
True Women (1997)
Gia (1998)
Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Playing by Heart (1998)
Pushing Tin (1998)
The Bone Collector (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Original Sin (2001)
Life or Something Like It (2002)
Trading Women (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Beyond Borders (2003)
Taking Lives (2004)
Shark Tale (2004) (voice of Lola)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Alexander (2004)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Beowulf (2007 of Queen of Darkness) (voice)

Awards

Academy
Year Category Movie Win/Nominated
1999 Best Supporting Actress Girl, Interrupted (1999) Win

Broadcast Film Critics Association
Year Category Movie Win/Nominated
1999 Best Supporting Actress Girl, Interrupted (1999) Win

Golden Globe
Year Category Movie Win/Nominated
1999 Best Supporting Actress (Motion Picture) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Win

Screen Actors Guild
Year Category Movie Win/Nominated
1999 Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role Girl, Interrupted (1999) Win