Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born June 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actor and director renowned for her sex appeal and edginess and also for her work for the cause of helping others. Her role as a supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was one of the roles she received in the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her early life in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old. After going to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years ago, she later began her studies at Beverly Hills High School. Then she went on to study drama at New York University. Also, she was an actor in theater productions. Later, she performed as a model and in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced, divorced 1999, divorced). It was not well-received, and neither were other films. Jolie, who played the role of the Alabama's segregationist governor's wife and was the focus of attention in 1997. Later, she won the Golden Globe Award. She played the role of a supermodel who struggles with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. This role earned her numerous honours including the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. She was a co-star with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. In 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 the British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing in order to perform the roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. She played the role of Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2004. She also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow the thriller that is set in the 1930s in New York City. Both films were unsuccessful at the box office, but Jolie made a splash with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She was a housewife who pretends to play an assassin. While working on the film she became acquainted with Brad Pitt who became her co-star.