biography
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• Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles, California ,on June 4,1975 to Oscar winning actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand.
• Made her debut in the movie Lookin’ to Get Out which starred her father.
• At age 11, Jolie began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute., although she aspired to be a funeral Director in her childhood.
• Started modeling at the age of 16 and appeared in music videos of bands such as including those of Korn, Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones.
• Her first movie , Cyborg 2(1993) never made it to the big screen. Her first starring movie was Hackers (1995), where she met future husband and British actor Jonny Lee Miller of Trainspotting fame.
- On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers. Jolie attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her husband’s name painted in her blood on the back. Jolie and Miller subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999.
• Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000. Their relationship was the tabloid’s favourite topic because of their outrageous declarations of love for each other, most famously wearing one anothers’ blood in vials around their necks. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003.
• Her career as an actress, however, was flying high. She received critical acclaim in Without Evidence (1995), where she portrayed a drug-addicted teen; Foxfire, a 1996 Joyce Carol Oates adaptation, for her portrayal of a rebellious teen known as “Legs”; as well as in 1996’s Love Is All There Is, for her role as an Italian girl in love with the son of her family’s rival.
In 1997, she joined the ranks of other known cast members with a supporting role in the box-office bomb Playing God, starring David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton
• She won her first Golden Globe(supporting actress) and an Emmy nomination for her role as Cornelia Wallace in the TV movie George Wallace, co-starring Gary Sinise.
• She won her second Golden Globe for her role in HBO’s biopic Gia . She played the role of Gia Carangi, a drug addicted model who was later diagnosed with AIDS.
• Her supporting role in 1999’s Girl, Interrupted won her a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• She then played the role of Lara Croft in two movies -Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), for which Angelina is proud to say she did her own stunts, and ), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).
• Of late she has been on the cover page of all the tabloids because of her relationship with Actor Brad Pitt, who left his wife Jennifer Aniston after the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith in which Jolie and Pitt were paired together.
• She recently had a baby girl, Shiloh Nouvel with Pitt, who adopted her two adopted children Maddox and Zahara.