Angelina Jolie, born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, United States, is an American actress and filmmaker noted for her sexual allure and edginess as well as her humanitarian activities. She won an Academy Award for her supporting performance in Girl, Interrupted as a psychiatric patient (1999).
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Early years Angelina Jolie is a U.S. actress.
Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent the majority of her upbringing in New York until moving to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old. She spent two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute before enrolling at Beverly Hills High School. She later attended New York University to study acting. She modelled and appeared in music videos in addition to her theatrical roles.
Film roles
During the making of her first significant film role in 1995’s Hackers, Jolie met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). As with a series of succeeding films, the film failed to attract an audience. Jolie received a Golden Globe Award for her performance as the wife of Alabama’s segregationist governor in the 1997 television film George Wallace. In the following year, she portrayed a supermodel battling heroin addiction in the HBO film Gia, a performance for which she received many awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she played alongside John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in the comedy Pushing Tin, and the following year, she married Thornton (divorced 2003).
Following her Academy Award-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie acted in a series of action films. She played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) before adopting a British accent and mastering street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2002). (2003). In 2004, she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone’s Alexander and acted alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a 1930s New York City-based science fiction thriller. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she portrayed an assassin posing as a typical housewife, was a box-office success for Jolie. While filming on the film, she met Brad Pitt, who later became her partner.
In Robert De Niro’s 2006 film The Good Shepherd, she played the resentful wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon). In A Mighty Heart, Jolie was praised for her performance as Mariane Pearl (2007). The video depicts efforts to rescue Pearl’s husband, Daniel, who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists while reporting for The Wall Street Journal in Pakistan. Jolie then appeared in Beowulf (2007) and Wanted (2009). (2008). In Clint Eastwood’s Changeling (2008), her performance as a mother whose son is taken and then replaced by another youngster earned her another Oscar nomination.
In 2010, Jolie portrayed a CIA agent accused of espionage for Russia in the action thriller Salt and co-starred in the comedy The Tourist with Johnny Depp. She later portrayed the title antagonist in Maleficent (2014). The live-action picture aimed to humanise the villainous fairy from the 1959 Disney animation masterpiece Sleeping Beauty. Later, Jolie starred in the sequel (2019). She portrayed the mother of Peter Pan and Alice (from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, respectively, in the 2020 fantasy-adventure film Come Away. In the 2021 action-thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead, Jolie portrays a firefighter defending a young boy from assailants. She portrayed the immortal warrior Thena in the 2021 action film Eternals, which was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, Jolie lent her voice to a number of films, including the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008) and its sequels (2011 and 2016), as well as The One and Only Ivan (2020).
Directing
In 2011, Jolie made her debut as a director and screenwriter with the Bosnian-language film In the Land of Blood and Honey, a stormy love story set during the 1990s Bosnian conflict. She then directed Unbroken, a World War II drama (2014). The Coen brothers wrote the storyline for the film, which is based on the true story of an Olympic runner and U.S. Air Force officer who became a Japanese prisoner of war after his plane crashed. In 2015, she directed, wrote, and performed in the drama By the Sea, which centred on a dysfunctional relationship in 1970s France and starring Brad Pitt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2017) is an adaptation of Loung Ung’s memoir about her youth during the 1970s Khmer Rouge rule.
Personal life and charitable work
Frequently, Jolie’s personal life garnered at least as much attention as her performance. The birth of the couple’s biological children, Shiloh (2006), Knox and Vivienne (2008), and twins Knox and Vivienne (2006), sparked a media frenzy. Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt two years after their 2014 wedding. Her humanitarian efforts also garnered attention. She was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001. (UNHCR). After that appointment, she travelled to various impoverished nations and adopted Maddox and Zahara from Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively. Pitt eventually adopted the children, and in 2007, the couple adopted a Vietnamese boy named Pax. Jolie made headlines in 2013 for undergoing a preventative double mastectomy following the discovery of mutations in her BRCA1 gene that enhance the likelihood of developing breast or ovarian cancer. She received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the same year.
