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| Age: 38 |
| Astrological sign: gemini |
| Birthdate:
1975-06-04 |
| Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California (USA) |
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Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress (for her role in Girl, Interrupted) and humanitarian. She is renowned for her acting talent and known for her exotic looks, full lips, wild child image of yore, numerous tattoos and her humanitarian work with refugees.
Jolie is the daughter of divorced actors Jon Voight and American born Marcheline Bertrand (now deceased). She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies.
She was briefly married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the movie Hackers. They divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie then married actor Billy Bob Thornton, and together they adopted a son from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003, and Jolie now has custody of Maddox.
In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the center of a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the “other woman” in the marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of the spy comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, something she denies.
Jolie has adopted other children, a son Pax and a daughter Zahara; Pitt legally adopted her children in early 2006. The couple has a biological daughter, Shiloh, and twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born in 2008.
Jolie was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Having visited many refugee camps from Tanzania to Pakistan, she specifically wants to help impoverished Third World children. In 2005, she founded the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, where free legal aid is provided to children seeking asylum.
The actress made her directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serbian soldier and Bosnian prisoner of war set against the backdrop of the 1992-95 Bosnian war. |
| Filmography: Hackers (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Love Is All There Is (1996), Foxfire (1996), Playing God (1997), Gia (1998), Hell's Kitchen (1998), Playing by Heart (1998), Pushing Tin (1998), The Bone Collector (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Original Sin (2001), Life or Something Like It (2002), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), Beyond Borders (2003), Taking Lives (2004), Shark Tale (voice-2004), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), The Fever (2004), Alexander (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), Beowulf (voice-2007), Kung Fu Panda (voice-2008), Wanted (2008), The Changeling (2008), Salt (2010), The Tourist (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (voice-2011)
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| Quotes: “If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.”
“Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.” |
| Linked to: Johnny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton, Brad Pitt |
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Angelina Jolie
