Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actress and director known for her sexual edginess and sex appeal and also for her work in the field of humanitarian aid. Her role as a supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was the part she won for the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her childhood in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, she attended Beverly Hills High School. She then studied drama at New York University. She also performed in theater productions and modeled for music videos. It was in Hackers (1995) when Jolie was introduced to Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996 and divorced in 1999). Similar to several other films, Hackers did not find an audience. However, in 1997 Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor the television film George Wallace, and she later was awarded the Golden Globe Award for her performance. In the HBO film Gia, she played a supermodel with drug addiction. Jolie was awarded a variety of distinctions as well as a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she appeared in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and in the year following she got married to Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning turn in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action films. Jolie portrayed the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Later, she adopted the British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing to be able to play the characters in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander as well as starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office disappointments, but Jolie was a huge success with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film in which she played an assassin pretending to be an ordinary housewife. While working on the film she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.