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Angelina Jolie, American Hollywood Actress: Biography

English Name: Angelina Jolie
Birth Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Date of Birth: June 4, 1975
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nickname: Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ
Zodiac: Aries
Height: 173cm
Body Measurements: B:85cm W:60cm H:85cm
Blood Type: A
Profession: Film Actress
Spouse:

Billy Bob Thornton (5 May 2000 - 27 May 2003)(divorced)

Jonny Lee Miller (28 March 1996 - 3 February 1999)(divorced)

In 2007 American actress Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood's brightest stars, continued to light up the screen and to use her celebrity to draw attention to the social issues she championed. Her highly publicized film A Mighty Heart (2007), in which she portrayed the widow of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, not only gave the small-budget movie a greater media presence but also provided the actress with a forum for speaking out about the plight of journalists reporting from war zones. She also continued in her role, begun in 2001, as a hands-on UN goodwill ambassador, work that had already taken her on awareness-raising campaigns to such countries as Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Pakistan (the site of Pearl's abduction and murder).

Jolie was the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. It did not take long for Jolie to follow in her parents' footsteps—she filmed a bit part in the comedy Lookin' to Get Out at the age of 5 and enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at 11. She became a professional model as a teenager and appeared in several music videos before transitioning into acting full-time. Jolie had prominent roles in the films Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996) and quickly became a popular sex symbol, but she was better known for her full lips and her numerous magazine covers than for her acting ability. Her career took off after appearances in two made-for-television productions; she played an embattled politician's wife in George Wallace (1997) and an AIDS-stricken supermodel in Gia (1998), roles that earned her back-to-back Golden Globe Awards. Her critically acclaimed performances continued in 1999 when she portrayed a psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted and earned the Academy Award for best supporting actress.

Following her Oscar win, Jolie starred in a string of big-budget films, including the video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the thriller Taking Lives (2004), and the tongue-in-cheek spy adventure Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). The latter film paired her with Brad Pitt, and the two superstars began a relationship soon thereafter (Pitt was married at the time) that quickly became a media sensation, earning the pair the ubiquitous tabloid moniker “Brangelina.” Pitt in 2006 adopted Jolie's two children (whom she had previously adopted on her own in 2002 and 2005 from orphanages in Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively), and the couple had their first biological child on May 27, 2006. They added a fourth child to their family in March 2007 when they adopted a boy from a Vietnamese orphanage. Pitt and Jolie characteristically used the public's interest in their relationship as a platform for speaking out for a cause; the pair vowed to never marry until couples of all sexual orientations were able to do so legally.

Angelina Jolie, American Hollywood Actress: Early life and family

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Czechoslovakian and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois", and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.

After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father. When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions.

At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. During this period, she wore black clothing, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".

She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces. Her self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. She started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."

Jon Voight at the 1988 Oscar ceremony, Jolie can be seen behind him.

Jolie has been long estranged from her father. The two tried to reconcile and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002. In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious mental problems" on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father, and said, "My father and I don't speak. I don't hold any anger toward him. I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood. Because my son's adopted, and families are earned." She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight.