Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on the 4th of June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actress and director who is known for her sex appeal and edginess as well as her humanitarian work. She won an Academy Award for her supporting role as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her childhood in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She then enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. Then, she pursued a degree in drama at New York University. She also performed in theater productions, and was a model for music videos. It was in Hackers (1995) when Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996 and divorced in 1999). The film did not find an audience, which was the case for another series of films. Jolie as the role of governor's wife of Alabama's segregationist governor attracted a lot of attention in 1997. In the following year, she received the Golden Globe Award. In 1998, she was an ultramodel who was struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia and it was a role that earned her multiple honours and awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year she married Thornton (divorced 2003).After her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie played a variety of action films. She played the wife of the carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopted an accent that resembled a British accent and learned combat sports and street fighting for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also played alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in the 1930s of New York City. Both films were disappointing at the box-office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was the biggest success. Jolie played a character who was playing a typical domestic worker while working on the film. Brad Pitt became her co-star.