Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director famous for her sexy appeal, edginess, and humanitarian work. Jolie was awarded an Academy Award for her supporting role as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her growing up in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. After attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years later, she was attended Beverly Hills High School. After that, she studied acting at New York University. Jolie was also an actor in theater productions. In later years, she was a model and featured in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced 1999). Similar to several other films, this one did not attract a crowd. Jolie was the segregationist spouse of Alabama's governor, attracting plenty of attention in 1997. Later, she was awarded an Golden Globe Award. Jolie played the supermodel struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO film Gia in 1999. Her performance was rewarded with numerous honours including a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and in the year following she got married to Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action movies. She played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later took on a British accent, and mastered combat sports and street fighting for the lead roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She played the role of Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) and appeared alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set 1930s New York City). Both films did poorly at the box-office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was successful. Jolie played a character pretending to play a normal housewife while she worked on the film. Brad Pitt became her co-star.