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Early Life

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4th, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand and the niece of Chip Taylor and the sister of James Haven. Jolie is of Slovak and German descent on her fathers side and French Canadian on her mothers. After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved from L.A. to Palisades, New York. When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to follow her parents into acting and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and later attended the Beverly Hills High School.

Jolie began working as a fashion model when she was 14 years old. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modelled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf (Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through), Lenny Kravitz (Stand by My Woman), and The Lemonheads (It's About Time). At the age of 16, Jolie returned to theatre and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She also appeared in numerous independent films directed by her brother James.

Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie’s film career started with her role in the low budget movie "Cyborg 2" as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her enemies. Jolie then starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers, in 1995, where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a huge cult following after its video release.

Jolie spent the next few years appearing in relatively unsuccessful films before she appeared in the television movie George Wallace in 1997. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady. Jolie received a Golden Globe for her performance as the infamous Alabama governor’s second wife, Cornelia. The following year, Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. For the second consecutive year, she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy and also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award.

Despite this success on the small screen Jolie returned to New York to take a break from acting. Her first big Hollywood film success came in 1999 when she was cast opposite Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector. The mystery thriller based on the novel written by Jeffery Deaver saw Jolie play the role of Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by her father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. Despite poor reviews from the critics the film grossed $151 million worldwide. Later that year she cast as sociopath Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted, a film that tells the story of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder. Jolie won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

In 2000, Jolie had a minor role in the Nicolas Cage blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, before she was catapulted into international stardom when she starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role. The movie was a huge international success earning $275 million worldwide and launched her global reputation as a female action star. Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box office.

Jolie’s biggest hit of 2004 came when she was cast as Olympias in Alexander, Oliver Stone's biographical film about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed at the U.S. box office but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States. Her only movie of 2005 was the action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was well received and was praised for the chemistry between the two leads who later began a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. The movie earned $478 million worldwide.

In 2006 Jolie appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. In 2007 she had roles in A Mighty Heart, for which she received a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and in Robert Zemeckis’s fantasy film Beowulf.

Jolie next appeared alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action movie Wanted in 2008, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film received favourable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide. The same year she provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda. With revenue of $632 million worldwide it became her highest grossing film to date. Changeling, her last film of 2008, a American period thriller directed by Clint Eastwood saw her nominated for a Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Angelina Jolie Filmography

1982 - Lookin' to Get Out - Tosh

1993 - Cyborg 2 - Casella "Cash" Reese

1995 - Without Evidence - Jodie Swearingen

1995 - Hackers - Kate "Acid Burn" Libby

1996 - Mojave Moon - Eleanor "Elie" Rigby

1996 - Love Is All There Is - Gina Malacici

1996 - Foxfire - Margret "Legs" Sadovsky

1997 - Playing God - Claire

1998 - Hell's Kitchen - Gloria McNeary

1998 - Playing by Heart - Joan

1998 - Pushing Tin - Mary Bell

1999 - The Bone Collector - Amelia Donaghy

1999 - Girl, Interrupted - Lisa Rowe

2000 - Gone in Sixty Seconds - Sara "Sway" Wayland

2001 - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Lara Croft

2001 - Original Sin - Julia Russell

2002 - Life or Something Like It - Lanie Kerrigan

2003 - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Lara Croft

2003 - Beyond Borders - Sarah Jordan

2004 - Taking Lives - Illeana Scott

2004 - Shark Tale - Lola (Voice)

2004 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Francesca "Franky" Cook

2004 - Alexander - Olympias

2005 - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Jane Smith

2006 - The Good Shepherd - Margaret Russell

2007 - A Mighty Heart - Mariane Pearl

2007 - Beowulf - Grendel's mother

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - Master Tigress (Voice)

2008 - Changeling - Christine Collins

Trivia

• Jolie was named a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
• Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
• She has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and she has a private pilot license (with an instrument rating) and owns a Cirrus SR22 airplane.
• Jolie has thirteen tattoos that are usually concealed by make-up during her movies.
• Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu.
• Ranked #1 in E! Television's 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies.

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