Name: Angelina Jolie
Birth Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Birthdate: June 4, 1975
Birthplace: Los Angeles
1-MINUTE RESUME FOR ANGELINA JOLIE
The daughter of a show-biz family, Jolie got an early start, training at the Lee Strasberg Institute in her teens. By 30, she'd made more movies than her years, most notably her Lara Croft films, the TV movie Gia and Girl, Interrupted, the latter two of which earned the actress several major awards, including the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But talented as she may be, it's her dark, sultry looks, edgy persona (who else would passionately kiss her brother at an awards show?) and ability to steal other actresses' men (Billy Bob from Laura Dern, and Brad Pitt from Jennifer Aniston) and her baby-adopting that seem to keep the public eye steadily focused on Jolie. Still, she definitely keeps trying, with roles in serious films like a CIA wife in The Good Shepherd and Daniel Pearl's wife in the story of his kidnap and beheading by terrorists, A Mighty Heart.
5 Things:
1. She wanted to be a funeral director as a young girl.
2. She has an apparent fascination with blood; she painted Jonny Lee Miller's name in hers on the T-shirt she wore for their wedding and wore a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's around her neck.
3. On her lower back is a tattoo of a blue window, because she always wants to be somewhere else, she has said.
4. She is a U.N. Goodwill ambassador.
5. She battled an eating disorder, self-mutilation and thoughts of suicide in her younger years.
Quote:
"People do always think that because I have tattoos that there's something very dark about me, or that I think about death. And I'm probably the least morbid person. I've kind of discovered that if I think about death much more than some people have, it's probably because I love life more than those people."
— Rolling Stone, August 1999
Family:
Boyfriend: Brad Pitt, actor, dating since 2005
Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, born August 5, 2001, adopted from Cambodia in 2002
Son: Pax Thien, adopted at age 3 from Vietnam in 2007
Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, born 2005, adopted from Ethiopia in 2005
Daughter: (with Pitt) Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, born May 28, 2006 in Namibia
Husband: Billy Bob Thornton, actor-director; born 1955; met on the set of Pushing Tin; married May 5, 2000; divorced May 27, 2003
Husband: Jonny Lee Miller, actor, born 1972, met on set of Hackers, married March 28, 1996, divorced Feb. 3, 1999
Father: Jon Voight, actor, born Dec. 29, 1938
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand, former model and actress, born May 9, 1950, died Jan. 27, 2007
Brother: James Haven, actor, born May 11, 1973
Awards:
1999: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Girl, Interrupted
1998: Academy Award: Best Supporting Actress, Girl, Interrupted; Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV, Gia
1997: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV, George Wallace
FILMS
Kung Fu Panda - (2008) - Voice
Wanted - (2008) - Actor
Beowulf - (2007 ) - Actor
A Mighty Heart - (2007) - Actor
The Good Shepherd - (2006) - Actor
Mr. and Mrs. Smith - (2005) - Actor
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - (2004) - Actor
Shark Tale - (2004) - Voice
Alexander - (2004) - Actor
Taking Lives - (2004) - Actor
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - (2003) - Actor
Beyond Borders - (2003) - Actor
Life or Something Like It - (2002) - Actor
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - (2001) - Actor
Original Sin - (2001) - Actor
Gone in 60 Seconds - (2000) - Actor
Pushing Tin - (1999) - Actor
The Bone Collector - (1999) - Actor
Girl, Interrupted - (1999)  - Actor
Gia - (1998) - Actor
Playing by Heart - (1998) - Actor
Playing by Heart/Flirting With Disaster - (1998) - Actor
Hell's Kitchen - (1998) - Actor
True Women - (1997) - Actor
George Wallace - (1997) - Actor
Playing God - (1997) - Actor
Foxfire - (1996) - Actor
Mojave Moon - (1996) - Actor
Love Is All There Is - (1996) - Actor
Hackers - (1995) - Actor
Without Evidence - (1995) - Actor
Cyborg 2 - (1993) - Actor |
