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About Angelina Jolie

Angelina was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles California. Growing up in L.A., Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand was also in show business. Her mother passed away in 2006. She had been very close to her mother, and distant with her father. Angelina has one older brother, James Haven.

In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her parents. Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. 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. Her exotic good looks may come from her mixed ancestry which is Slovak, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.

Oscar-winning Jolie is known as much for her offscreen romances, adoptions and political activism as for her movie roles. Jolie first made a splash in 1998, playing the gorgeous but doomed model, Gia Marie Carangi in the HBO movie Gia, which is a true story. She was a hit as the love interest in the offbeat air-traffic-controller drama Pushing Tin (1999, with John Cusack), but won an Oscar for her supporting role as a troubled mental patient in the 1999 Winona Ryder film "Girl, Interrupted." This role made her a big-time movie star.

She sealed her international fame (and box office clout) by playing the video game heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2001) and Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (2003). Jolie's plush-lipped, brooding Gothic presence (and ample tattoos) made her a hit with the younger generation, and her wild-life offscreen antics made her a hit with the tabloids, especially while she was married to her Pushing Tin co-star, Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003).

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 still estranged from her famous father, Jon Voight.

Jolie has also become famous for her charitable impulses: she was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in 2001. She adopted a Cambodian boy, Maddox (in 2002), a daughter born in Ethiopia, Zahara (in 2005), and a boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien (in 2007).
 

She and Brad Pitt starred together in the action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005, but whatever excitement the movie generated was overshadowed by the real-life drama of Pitt leaving Jennifer Aniston to move in with Jolie. The excessive tabloid attention didn't stop her from making movies: she made a special appearance in the CGI fantasy Beowulf (2007), lent her voice (as the tigress) in Kung Fu Panda (2008), played an action hero in Wanted (2008), turned in another Oscar-nominated performance in Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008) and starred in the 2010 spy thriller Salt. In 2011 she took another step, writing and directing the Bosnian war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continue to pursue movie and humanitarian projects.