1. Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie

    American actress

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  1. Angelina Jolie (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ l iː /; born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades , including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards , she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.

    • Who Is Angelina Jolie?
    • Early Life and Acting Roots
    • Gia and Oscar Win For Girl, Interrupted
    • Tomb Raider, Taking Lives, Sky Captain
    • Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Good Shepherd, A Mighty Heart
    • Kung Fu Panda, Changeling, Salt
    • Maleficent and Sequel
    • Director: In The Land of Blood and Honey, Unbroken
    • By The Sea, First They Killed My Father
    • Marriages and Children

    Born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie starred in the HBO biopic Gia before earning a best supporting actress Academy Award for Girl, Interrupted. Jolie became one of Hollywood's marquee names, with starring roles in movies like Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt and Changeling. She later had a huge international blockbuster...

    Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. She began acting at a young age, studying at the Lee StrasbergTheater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University.

    In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia, based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, for which she won a best actress Golden Globe. Her rapid ascent continued with Girl, Interrupted(1999), as the rebellious member of a group of institutionalized teenag...

    In the new millennium Jolie continued to take on a variety of interesting roles. She portrayed adventurer Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider films (2001 and 2003), a FBI profiler in Taking Lives (2004) and a squadron commander in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow(2004).

    After teaming with Brad Pitt to play married assassins in the sexy action flick Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), Jolie played a neglected, troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd (2006) and then a vengeful, monstrous mother in an adaptation of Beowulf (2007). That year she also gave a brilliant performance as Mariane Pearl, the pregnant widow of Wal...

    In 2008, Jolie joined the voice cast of the animated comedy Kung Fu Panda as Master Tigress, a role she later reprised for multiple sequels. That year she also portrayed an assassin in Wanted and starred in the Clint Eastwood-directed thriller Changeling, as a mother who investigates her son's unusual disappearance and reappearance. The role led to...

    In 2014, the actress enjoyed the rewards of shaping a major blockbuster, both starring in and executive producing Disney's Maleficent. Jolie portrayed the sorceress title character, with the film taking on a woman-centered revisionist approach to the main villain from the animated classic Sleeping Beauty (1959). With U.S. critics divided on the Mal...

    Jolie also began honing her craft as a director. She made her feature-length directorial debut with 2011's In the Land of Blood and Honey, looking at a relationship horribly damaged by the Bosnian War. This was followed by 2014's Unbroken, a biopic that told the story of Olympian Louis Zamperini's survival in a Japanese POW camp. The film was based...

    In 2016, Jolie directed and co-starred with Pitt in the art film By the Sea, a slowly-paced Mediterranean tale set in the 1970s about a married couple and the tensions of their relationship. The following year, she focused strictly on directing for First They Killed My Father, based on a Cambodian activist's memoir of being trained as a child soldi...

    Famous for her off-screen romances, Jolie has been married three times. She married Hackersco-star Jonny Lee Miller in 1995. The couple divorced in 1999. The following year, Jolie married Academy Award-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton. That union lasted until 2003. Jolie met Pitt during the making of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004. At the time, Pitt wa...

  2. Angelina Jolie. Actress: Maleficent. Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014).

    • Actress, Producer, Director
    • June 4, 1975
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  3. Angelina Jolie. Actress: Maleficent. Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014).

    • June 4, 1975
  4. Angelina Jolie filmography. Jolie at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. American actress Angelina Jolie made her screen debut in the comedy film Lookin' to Get Out (1982), acting alongside her father Jon Voight. [1] . Eleven years later, she appeared in her next feature, the low-budget film Cyborg 2 (1993), a commercial failure. [2] .

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  6. 1 day ago · All Angelina Jolie Movies Ranked by Tomatometer. After drawing some mainstream attention for her role in the preposterous, very ’90s guilty pleasure Hackers, critical acclaim came for...

  7. 2 days ago · Angelina Jolie. Category: Arts & Culture. Original name: Angelina Jolie Voight. Born: June 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (age 48) Awards And Honors: Golden Globe Award (2000) Academy Award (2000) Golden Globe Award (1999) Golden Globe Award (1998) Academy Award (2000): Actress in a Supporting Role.

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