Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina
Jolie Voight (born on the 4th of June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an
American actress, director, and producer best known for her sex appeal as also
her humanitarian work. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in
New York. After her growing up, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she was the
character of mentally ill patient in Girl, interrupted (1999). She was a
student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years and was then
accepted into Beverly Hills High School. Later, she studied drama at New York
University. She also performed in theatre productions. In later years, she
modelled and appeared in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996
divorced 1999). As with several subsequent films, this one did not gain a
traction. In 1997, however, Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife
of Alabama's segregationist governor the film George Wallace, and she was later
awarded a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. The following year , she
portrayed a supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia, a
performance that won her several awards and awards, including an award of a
Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of the
comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and that same year,
she got married Thornton (divorced 2003).After her Oscar-winning turn in Girl,
Interrupted, Jolie played a variety of action movies. Jolie portrayed the
carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Then, she
took on an accent that resembled a British accent and began learning street
fighting and kickboxing to be able to play the characters of Lara Croft Tomb
Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. She played
Alexander's mother in Oliver stone's Alexander in 2004 and additionally, she
starred alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of
Tomorrow the thriller featuring sci-fi in 1930s New York City. Both films failed
at box office, but Jolie made a splash with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
She played a housewife pretending to play an assassin. While working on the
film, she met Brad Pitt who became her partner.
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