Agelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie |

Jolie at the Cannes premiere of The Tree of Life in 2011 |
Born | Angelina Jolie Voight
June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 36)
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, director, humanitarian |
Years active | 1982; 1991–present |
Spouse | Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999)
Billy Bob Thornton(2000–2003) |
Partner | Brad Pitt (2005–present) |
Children | 6 |
Parents | Jon Voight
Marcheline Bertrand (deceased) |
Relatives | James Haven (brother)
Chip Taylor (uncle) |
Angelina Jolie (pronounced /dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-lee, 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,and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.[1][2] Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.[3][4][5][6]
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongsideher father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film 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 the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress forher performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).[7] She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) andWanted (2008)—her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date[8]—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attractedworldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
Contents * 1 Early life and family * 2 Career * 2.1 Early work: 1982; 1991–1997 * 2.2 Breakthrough: 1998–2000 * 2.3 International success: 2001–present * 3 Humanitarian work * 4 Personal life * 4.1 Relationships* 4.2 Children * 5 In the media * 6 Filmography * 7 Selected awards * 8 Bibliography * 9 References * 10 Further reading * 11 External links |
Early life and family

Jolie's father Jon Voight at the Academy Awards in 1988; Jolie can be seen behind his right shoulder
Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent,[9][10] and on her mother's side, she is of French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry.[9] She has also claimed to be part Iroquois through her mother,[11] although Voight has said thatBertrand was "not seriously Iroquois."[12]
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children.[13] As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.[14] When she was six years old, her...