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Angelina had acting in her blood; she is the daughter of academy award winner Jon Voight. Her mother is Marcheline Bertrand. She started acting lessons at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute from the age of 11 and was a fashion model for some time and then did a few music videos before she turned her sights on acting. Angelina actually cut her acting teeth in five student films directed by her brother James Voight. In her short acting career, Angelina has garnered three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Oscar. Angelina won at the Globes in 98’ 99’ and 00’ for her roles in George Wallace; Gia; and Girl, Interrupted. The last mentioned film also landed her an academy award.Cyborg II: Glass Shadows, released in 1993, was her first commercial film; she next starred in Hackers. This role got her some critical acclaim. Angelina and her co-star from the film, Jonny Lee Miller got married in 1996. The marriage was to last till February 1999. Angelina has worked with top-notch acting talents including John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Denzel Washington, and Cate Blanchett. Angelina and Billy Bob Thornton took marriage vows in 2000, exchanged vials of blood, and divorced in 2002. In 2001, Angelina starred opposite Antonio Banderas in Original Sin and further fuelled male fantasies with her portrayal of Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. That film established Angelina as an actress for the masses and the classes and she is now one of the top paid actresses in Hollywood.
Angelina was the voice of Lola in Shark Tale in 2004 and played mother to Colin Farrell in the epic Alexander. All the attention showered on her till then was only a preparation for what followed when the paparazzi got a whiff of something brewing between Angelina and Brad Pitt. The couple got hounded across the globe and Angelina had to take the blame for being responsible for Brad and Jennifer Aniston’s split. Since then, Brad has adopted Angelina’s children Maddox and Zahara and the power-couple; dubbed Brangelina, make for a happy twosome.
Two things that add to the Angelina mystique are the numerous tattoos on her body and her declaration of being bisexual. She has a cross on her lower front hip and a cross on her thigh; a dragon on her lower back and the letter H on her left wrist. Regarding her bisexuality, Angelina declared that she had a sexual relationship with Jenny Shimizu, her co-star from Foxfire.
Angelina Jolie Biography
At the Premiere Magazine "Women in Hollywood" Awards she said her mom was born in a bowling alley. She has stated that because of her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie's grandparents were French Canadian. Her mother also studied with Lee Strasberg himself. She is of Czech , French-Canadian, English , and Iroquois descent. As a child she dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies.
On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the movie 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 divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, and together they adopted a son from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001 . Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003, and Jolie now has custody of Maddox.
Jolie has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with her father, but that she did not hate him but that she realized that "...we only have so much energy in this life." Soon after, he claimed that she has "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood, and she legally dropped Voight as her last name, taking Angelina Jolie as her legal name.
Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001 , and frequently travels to remote countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations. In 2003 , she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries chronicling her early work with the U.N. In a January 2005 interview with Reuters, Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being committed enough in helping others, and stated that she gives one-third of her income to charitable organizations.
Jolie was also one of the first celebrities to accept an invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch during the 2004 Olympic Games, though she was ultimately unable to participate due to filming commitments.
In the fall of 2004 , it was reported that Jolie has started proceedings to adopt another child, this time from Russia. However, no adoption ever took place. On March 8th, Jolie took part in a Washington Press club luncheon. It was there that she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children in Washington, D.C. It's an organization that provides free legal aid to children who prior to this had no legal representation.
Jolie donated $500,000 to the center which will help keep it afloat for the first two years of its operation. At that same conference she stated that she never intended to adopt a Russian orphan boy. Jolie expressed a deep sadness at the media's exploitation of the child. Jolie stated that she was on business through the United Nations and not looking for a child to adopt. She also mentioned that her son wanted an "African brother" because of his love of Africa and the work he knows she does in that region.
Around the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii -based adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges. She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought from their birth families. There is no evidence that Maddox was among them, although the investigation is continuing. Maddox Jolie , as he is legally named, was naturalized as a United States citizen some time ago, and there is no indication that that will be rescinded.
Besides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie also worked as a professional model in London , New York and Los Angeles and appeared in numerous music videos including those of Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones .
For several years prior to mid 2005, Jolie did not have a hit movie. Several of her movies, such as Alexander, Sky Captain, and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life were major box office disappointments although Jolie usually received good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film, Shark Tale. Nonetheless she remains one of Hollywood 's most "in-demand" actresses.
In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the center of a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston . The allegation was that she and Brad had started an affair during filming of the spy comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith . However in several interviews she has denied starting an affair with Pitt. In an interview with Marie Claire magazine recently she stated that she could never have a relationship with a married man because she has seen what relationships like that did to her mother. Her father has acknowledged that he cheated on Jolie's mom when they were married. Jolie stated she "could not, could not look herself in the mirror" if she had an affair with a married man.
Thanks to a mixture of generally good reviews and advance publicity due to all the rumors, Mr. & Mrs. Smith opened in the No. 1 position at the box office after it was released in early June 2005, providing Jolie with her first box-office success in several years. In March 2005, Jolie was named the third sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine, from fifteen million votes worldwide.
Since taking on her goodwill ambassador duties, Jolie has on numerous occasions made public statements that she wants to quit acting and concentrate on her UN work (for example, see Ireland On-Line in June 2005). However, she has also stated that her work provides the income necessary for her to continue travelling the world on behalf of the UN.
Jolie continues to balance the demands of being a movie star with that of being a humanitarian, despite an apparently grueling schedule. On June 7, 2005, the Associated Press wire service reported on Jolie giving a presentation in Islamabad, Pakistan . That very same day, she attended the premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in Los Angeles. She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire, England, and owns property in Cambodia , which she had to have demined. Angelina Jolie spent the new year of 2005 by going abroad to film a documentary called "A Moment in the World." She called on several actors and actresses to film in various locations around the world at the same time for three minutes. This was done in order to capture random moments that are happening across the world at the same time. Some confusion has arisen between this project and the independent endeavor A Moment on Earth, in which 60 filmmakers around the world captured two separate moments on August 5th and 6th, 2004. No release dates for either project are known at this time.
In late June 2005, the New York Post reported a claim that Jolie is pregnant, a report republished on June 30 by Britain's Sky TV, Sun Media Corporation in Canada, and the Asian Hindustan Times, among others. Her publicists presently deny this report. On July 5, 2005, People magazine reported that Jolie was in the final stages of adopting a baby girl, who was orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia, through the agency Wide Horizons for Children. Jolie has named her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. A woman in London has been claiming she is Zahara's birth mother since August of 2005. There has been no legal development regarding this claim. Ms. Jolie has contacted a lawyer in London to look into the matter. Earlier in the summer another woman came forward claiming to be the grandmother of Zahara.
That claim too proved to be false. On September 28th 2005 while making an appearance to discuse American's financial involvement with fighting AIDS globally on CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer Jolie stated that her daughter is a "AIDS orphan." By that she means her birth mother died from the disease but her daughter does not have the disease. The birth father of Zahara is not known. Her statement made it clear that the birth mother is indeed dead. In late October of 2005 a Ethiopian judge ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that Ms. Jolie would have to file for re-adoption of her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. The judge ruled that the woman claiming to be her mother is not the birth mother.
In September of 2005 Angelina Jolie was named the new spokesperson for the clothing line St. John Knits starting in the Spring/Fall 0f 2006. The deal with the clothing company includes the startup of a charity headed by Ms. Jolie. The charity will focus on children's issues and causes. It has been reported but not comfired that Angelina Jolie will also sit on the board of directors and have stock in the company. The deal is also believed to be the biggest celebrity clothing endorsement with the actress receiving 10-15 million dollars. Other celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow receive something in the neighborhood of 5 million dollars to promote luxury clothing and accessories. On October 24 Angelina Jolie attended the First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation. While there she pledged to partner with WWO to treat children in Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive. "AIDS is chronic and manageable, and does NOT have to kill any longer," said Ms. Jolie. Ms. Jolie announced her plan to support WWO's Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and pledged an initial grant. The gala helped the organization raise $800,000. Dr. Jane Aronson, the organization's founder, and Ms. Jolie first met through the adoption of her daughter Zahara and Jolie credits the doctor with helping save her daughter's life.
The American magazine US Weekly, in reporting Jolie's second adoption, indicated erroneously that Jolie and Pitt had adopted the girl together. When the magazine realized its error, the presses were stopped and an apology issued to Jolie and Pitt; printing of the issue resumed with the correction made, though a number of copies with the error were still released to the public. Reportedly, however, Pitt was present when Jolie signed the adoption papers. The agency later said Brad Pitt was not present when Angelina Jolie picked up her daughter.
In August 2005, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie a Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country.
Speculation over the nature of Jolie and Pitt's relationship continued throughout the summer of 2005. On August 22, the Calgary Herald ran a front-page story with a photo of Jolie taken during a surprise visit she made to Calgary, Alberta a couple of days earlier, accompanied by Zahara. Brad Pitt was at that time filming a movie in Calgary, as was her father, Jon Voight. It was later reported that Jolie and Pitt visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta together, and CNN and the Calgary Sun reported on September 22 , 2005 that they visited West Edmonton Mall together. September 30 , the Calgary Sun reported that Pitt and Jolie had rented a house together in the city of Spruce Grove, Alberta, west of Edmonton where Pitt was filming more scenes for his movie; the same issue printed a photograph of the two actors (dubbed "Brangelina") leaving an Edmonton grocery store.
It has also been recently rumored that Angelina is thinking into adopting a third child, this time probably from Russia.
Angelina Jolie Filmography
Lookin' to Get Out ( 1982 )Cyborg 2 ( 1993 )
Angela & Viril ( 1993 ) (short subject)
Alice & Viril ( 1993 ) (short subject)
Without Evidence ( 1995 )
Hackers ( 1995 )
Mojave Moon ( 1996 )
Love Is All There Is ( 1996 )
Foxfir e ( 1996 )
Playing God ( 1997 )
Gi a ( 1998 )
Hell's Kitchen ( 1998 )
Playing by Heart ( 1998 )
Pushing Tin ( 1998 )
The Bone Collector ( 1999 )
Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 )
Gone in Sixty Seconds ( 2000 )
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 )
Original Sin ( 2001 )
Life or Something Like It ( 2002 )
Trading Women ( 2003 ) (documentary) (narrator)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ( 2003 )
Beyond Borders ( 2003 )
Taking Lives ( 2004 )
Shark Tale ( 2004 ) (voice)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ( 2004 )
The Fever ( 2004 )
Alexander ( 2004 )
Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 )
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Beowulf ( 2007 ) (voice)
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