Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born June 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actress and director who is known for her sexy appeal and edginess as well as her humanitarian work. She won an Academy Award for her supporting part as a mentally ill patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her early years in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years, and after that, she enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She later studied drama at New York University. In addition to appearing in theater productions, she also was a model and featured in music videos.Jolie's first major movie performance was in Hackers (1995), during the filming of which she got married to her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film didn't find an audience, which was the case for another series of films. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor. She received much attention in 1997. Jolie later won a Golden Globe Award. In the HBO movie Gia, she played a supermodel suffering from drug addiction. She received numerous honours as well as the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. After her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie played in Pushing Tin, a comedy with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and in 2003 she was divorced. Jolie played the girlfriend of the carjacker (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. In the following years, she adopted her British accent and began learning street fighting and kickboxing to take on the roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. She played Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2004. She additionally, she starred alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow The World of Tomorrow, a thriller featuring sci-fi in 1930s New York City. Both films failed at the box office However, Jolie had a smash in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin disguised as a typical housewife. While working on the film, she was introduced to Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.