Angelina Jolie  


Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most attractive people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention.
Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

Relationships

Relationships

On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers (1995). She attended her wedding in black rubber pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."
While shooting Pushing Tin (1999) she met American actor Billy Bob Thornton, and subsequently married him on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love—most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks—their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."

Jolie and Brad Pitt at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2007

Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire (1996) co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her." In 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"
In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She denied this on several occasions, but admitted that they "fell in love" on the set. In an interview in 2005, she explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; they showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.

In February 2010, Jolie and Pitt sued UK tabloid News of the World for reporting they were splitting up.

Children

Children

 

Jolie's children

• Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt
  (born August 5, 2001 in Cambodia; adopted March 10, 2002)
• Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
  (born November 29, 2003 in Vietnam; adopted March 15, 2007)
• Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt
  (born January 8, 2005 in Ethiopia; adopted July 6, 2005)
• Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt
  (born May 27, 2006 in Swakopmund, Namibia)
• Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt
  (born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France)
• Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt
  (born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France)

On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan. He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia, and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. Like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained

considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media.

Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005. She was originally named Yemsrach by her mother, and was later given the legal name Tena Adam at an orphanage. Jolie adopted her from Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition. In 2007, media outlets reported Zahara's biological mother, Mentewabe Dawit, was still alive and wanted her daughter back, but she later denied these reports, saying she thought Zahara was "very fortunate" to be adopted by Jolie.

Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and collected her daughter; later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together. On January 19, 2006 a judge in California approved Pitt's request to legally adopt Jolie's two children. Their surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".

Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund, Namibia, by a scheduled caesarean section, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter would have a Namibian passport, and Jolie

decided to sell the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these valuable photographs. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million. All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien, who was born on

November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang. Jolie adopted the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. She revealed that his first name, Pax, was suggested by her mother before her death.

Following months of tabloid speculation, Jolie confirmed she was expecting twins at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. She gave birth to a boy, Knox Léon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by caesarean section at the

Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on July 12, 2008. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.

In the media

In the media

Jolie at a photo op in Washington, D.C. in 2005

Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon Voight. At seven she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career, Jolie decided not to use "Voight" as a stage name, because she wished to establish her own identity as an actress. Jolie was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared, "I'm so in love with my brother right now", which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked speculation in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors vehemently, and Jolie and Haven later explained in interviews that after their parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.

Jolie does not employ a publicist or an agent. She quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since she presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, discussing her love life and her interest in BDSM openly, and once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan". As one of her most distinctive physical features, Jolie's lips have attracted notable media attention and she has been described as "the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking cosmetic surgery. She also created headlines with her much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As she took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador she started to use her celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide. Jolie has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and she has a private pilot license (with an instrument rating) and owns a Cirrus SR22 airplane. The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but she said that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of his culture. When asked in 2000 if there was a God, she said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."

Jolie and Pitt at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009

Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed her pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina fever". Trying to avoid the media attention, the couple went to Namibia for the birth of Shiloh, "the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ", as it had been described. Two years later, Jolie's second pregnancy again fueled a media frenzy. For the two weeks she spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.

Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score, in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31% of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 she was familiar to 81% of Americans. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide Jolie was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2006 and 2008.She was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the 2006 "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols in 2007, and named "Most beautiful woman in the world" by Vanity Fair in 2009. The Hollywood Reporter named Jolie the highest-paid actress of 2008, earning $15 million per film. She also topped Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list in 2009; she had previously been ranked No. 14 in 2007, and No. 3 in 2008.

Angelina Tattoos

Angelina Tattoos

 Jolie in New York with several of her tattoos visible, June 2007

Jolie's numerous tattoos have been the subject of much media attention and have often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. Jolie has thirteen known tattoos, among them the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", which she got together with her mother, the Arabic language phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me destroys me), and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer script for her son Maddox. She also has six sets of geographical coordinates on her upper left arm indicating the birthplaces of her children. Over time she covered or lasered several of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死), and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.

Filmography

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	Lookin' to Get Out	Tosh
1993	"Angela & Viril"	Angela	2 minute short film
	"Alice & Viril"	Alice	2 minute short film
	Cyborg 2	Casella "Cash" Reese
1995	Without Evidence	Jodie Swearingen
	Hackers	Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
1996	Mojave Moon	Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
	Love Is All There Is	Gina Malacici
	Foxfire	Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
1997	True Women	Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods	Television
	George Wallace	Cornelia Wallace	Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
	Playing God	Claire
1998	Gia	Gia Marie Carangi	Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
	Hell's Kitchen	Gloria McNeary
	Playing by Heart	Joan	National Board of Review Award – Breakthrough Performance
	Pushing Tin	Mary Bell
1999	The Bone Collector	Amelia Donaghy
	Girl, Interrupted	Lisa Rowe	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
2000	Gone in 60 Seconds	Sara "Sway" Wayland
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Lara Croft	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - Female Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
	Original Sin	Julia Russell
2002	Life or Something Like It	Lanie Kerrigan
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Lara Croft
	Beyond Borders	Sarah Jordan
2004	Taking Lives	Illeana Scott
	Shark Tale	Lola	Voice
	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Francesca "Franky" Cook	People's Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star
	The Fever (TV)	Revolutionary	Cameo
	Alexander	Olympias
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Jane Smith	MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated—People's Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star Nominated—People's Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star Nominated—People's Choice Award – Favorite On-Screen Match-Up (with Brad Pitt)
2006	The Good Shepherd	Margaret Russell
2007	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl	Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture
	Beowulf	Grendel's mother	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
2008	Kung Fu Panda	Master Tigress	Voice
	Wanted	Fox	People's Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star Nominated—People's Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - Female Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment
	Changeling	Christine Collins	Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture
2010	Salt	Evelyn Salt	(to be released on July 23, 2010)
2011	The Tourist	Cara Mason	(filming)
	Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom	Master Tigress	Voice

Awards

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1998	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	George Wallace	Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movie		Won
	National Board of Review Award	Breakthrough Performance – Female	Playing by Heart	Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Gia	Nominated
1999	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV		Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries		Won
2000	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Girl, Interrupted	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role		Won
	Academy Award	Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role		Won
2004	People's Choice Award	Favourite Female Action Star	Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow	Won
2008	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	A Mighty Heart	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
2009	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Changeling	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
	Academy Award	Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
(Source: IMDb.com)