Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on the 4th of June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actor and director, well-known for her sexy appeal and edginess as well as for her work in the field of humanitarian aid. Her role as a supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was a role she was awarded in the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her growing up in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11. After being at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years ago, she attended Beverly Hills High School. She then studied acting at New York University. In addition to appearing in theater productions, she also performed as a model and in music videos.Jolie's first big movie part was in Hackers (1995) and during the filming of which she had her first marriage with British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). Like many of the subsequent films, Hackers did not attract a crowd. However, in 1997 Jolie gained a lot of notice for her performance as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor the TV film George Wallace, and she later received an award called the Golden Globe Award for her performance. In the HBO movie Gia Jolie was a supermodel who had a drug addiction. She received numerous awards, including an award of the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. She was a co-star with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. The following year, she tied the knot with Thornton (divorced in 2003). Jolie played the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Then, she took on an accent that resembled a British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing to be able to play the characters in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office disappointments however Jolie was a huge success in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she played an assassin who was disguised as a normal housewife; while working on the film, she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.