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Angelina Jolie
Birth name Angelina Jolie Voight
Born June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 32)
Spouse(s) Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999)
Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003)
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1999 Girl, Interrupted
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Mini-series
1997 George Wallace
Best Actress - Mini-series
1998 Gia
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1999 Girl, Interrupted
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Actress - Mini-series/TV Movie
1998 Gia
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1999 Girl, Interrupted
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former
fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is
often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women[1]
and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden
Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film
Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later
with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993) and she played her first
leading role in a major film in Hackers (1995). She appeared in the
critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia
(1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her
performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). She achieved
international fame as a result of her portrayal of videogame heroine Lara
Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established
herself as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in Hollywood.
She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs.
Smith (2005).[2]
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie
currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted
worldwide media attention.[3] Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children,
Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh. Jolie has promoted
humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with
refugees through UNHCR.
Early life and family
Born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter
of actors Jon Voight and the late Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie 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, she is of Czechoslovakian and
German descent,[4][5] and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is
said to be part "Iroquois",[6][7] although Bertrand's alleged Native
American ancestry was once disputed by Voight in an interview in 2001.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10] When she was 11, 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. 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.[10] Her self esteem was further diminished when her
initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. As her despondency grew,
she started to cut herself; later commenting during an appearance on CNN, "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."[11] At 14,
she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral
director.[12] Her self-loathing led her to embark on a rebellious period in
her life; she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her
live-in boyfriend.[10] Two years later, after the relationship had ended,
she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's
home.[9] She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school,
though in recent time she has referred to this period with the observation,
"I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".[13]
Jolie has been long estranged from her father, blaming his infidelity for
the break-up of the family, though a reconciliation was attempted, and he
appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. 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.[14] In
August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious
emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. In the October 2004 issue of
Premiere Magazine, Jolie 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.[15]
Early work, 1993–1997
Jolie began working as a fashion model at 14. She was signed with Finesse
Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working
mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. She also appeared in numerous
music videos, including those of the Rolling Stones ("Anybody seen My
Baby"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea") and Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My
Woman"). At the age of 16 Jolie returned to theatre, and played her first
role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she
noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their
relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that
they were both "drama queens".[10]
Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he
attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career
began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low budget film
Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce
her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate.
Following several undistinguished projects she starred as Kate "Acid Burn"
Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her
first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina
Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her
co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard
in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role
requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight."[16]
The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult
following after its video release.[17]
She appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a
modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian
family restaurant owners in Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon
she was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while
he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. Still in 1996 she played
Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond
in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed
them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolie's performance, "It took a lot
of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout
daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is
narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."[18]
In 1997 Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a
film portraying a famed L.A. surgeon who is stripped of his medical license
and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie’s character,
Claire. The movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted
that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is
usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's]
girlfriend, and maybe she is."[19] She then appeared in the TV movie True
Women, a historical romantic drama set in the West, and based on the book by
Janice Woods Windle. She also appeared as a stripper in the Rolling Stones
music video for the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?"
Breakthrough, 1997–2000
Jolie's career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia
Wallace in the 1997 biopic George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe
Award and was nominated for an Emmy. The film was highly praised by critics
and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for "Best
Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV". She played the second wife of the
segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running
for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John
Frankenheimer.
In 1998 Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, as the supermodel, Gia Carangi. The film
depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the
destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction,
and her decline and death from AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted,
"Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and
it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with
nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly
the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed."[20] For the second consecutive
year, Jolie won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. She also won
her first Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's
method acting Jolie reportedly prefers to stay in character in between
scenes during many of her films, and as a result has gained a reputation for
being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband
Jonny Lee Miller that she wouldn't be able to phone him. "I'd tell him: 'I'm
alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"[21]
Following Gia, Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period
of time, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give". She enrolled
at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes. She
described it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors
Studio.[22]
Jolie returned to film as Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's
Kitchen, and later that year was part of an ensemble cast that included Sean
Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe and Jon Stewart in Playing by
Heart. The drama tells the story of several seemingly unconnected
characters, with Jolie playing a young club-scene hipster, Joan. The film
received predominantly positive reviews and Jolie was praised in particular.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten
part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about
what she's willing to gamble."[23] Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance
Award by the National Board of Review.
In 1999 she starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, about two air
traffic controllers who engage in macho conflict, co-starring alongside John
Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Jolie played Thornton's
seductive wife Mary Bell. The film received a lukewarm reception from
critics and Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington
Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation
of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots
of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights
away from home."[24] She then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone
Collector, an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played
Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide who
reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed
$151 million worldwide,[2] but was a critical failure; the Detroit Free
Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and
woefully miscast."[25]
Jolie next took the supporting role of Lisa Rowe alongside Winona Ryder in
Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient
Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl,
Interrupted. While the lead role of the film was Ryder's character, and
hoped to be a comeback for Ryder, the film instead became the
"welcome-to-Hollywood coronation" for Jolie.[26] Jolie won her third Golden
Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant,
irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the
doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation"[27] and Roger Ebert wrote about her
performance:
“ Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a
loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim.[28] ”
In 2000 Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster Gone In 60 Seconds,
in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of car-thief Nicolas
Cage. The role was small, and the Washington Post criticized that "all she
does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy,
pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."[29] She
later explained that the film was a welcome relief after the heavy role of
Lisa Rowe, and it became her highest grossing movie up until then, with $237
million internationally.[2]
International success, 2001–present
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had
often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb
Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo
extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She
was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated
mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born
to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game
of Frogger."[30] The movie was a huge international success nonetheless,
earning $275 million worldwide,[2] and started her reputation as a female
action star.
Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia
Russell in Original Sin, a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness
by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New
York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's
neckline."[31] In 2002, she played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like
It, a film about an ambitious TV reporter who is told that she will die in a
week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance
received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in
her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the
film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her
journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."[32]
Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle
of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned
$156 million at the international box-office.[2] Later that year Jolie
starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although
reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the
film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times
wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted,
can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can
understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged
cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard
person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."[33]
In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives,
as Illeana Scott, an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement
hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The
Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely
feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable
dash of excitement and glamour."[34] She also provided the voice of Lola, an
angelfish in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale; the cast included
Will Smith, Martin Scorsese, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black and Robert De Niro.
Also in 2004, Jolie had a brief appearance as Franky in Kerry Conran’s Sky
Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film shot
with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen, with all the sets and nearly
all of the props computer-generated. Jolie then played Olympias in Alexander
(2004), Oliver Stone’s biopic about the life of Alexander the Great. The
film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to
disapproval of the depiction of Alexander’s homosexuality,[35] but it
succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United
States.[2] Newsday wrote of Jolie's performance, "Jolie is the only one in
the picture who seems to be having any fun with her role, and one misses her
whenever she's off-screen."[36]
Jolie as assassin Jane Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, her biggest commercial
success to date.
Jolie as assassin Jane Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, her biggest commercial
success to date.
Jolie's only movie of 2005, the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is also her
biggest commercial success to date. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells
the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret
assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was
well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two
leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie
gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear
screen chemistry."[37] The movie earned over $478 million worldwide, one of
the biggest hits of 2005.[2]
Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006),[38] a film
about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward
Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Jolie co-stared as Margaret Russell, Wilson's
neglected wife who becomes increasingly discontented by the effects of his
work. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout,
and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in
terms of audience sympathy."[39]
In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in
Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a
single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin
Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller.[40] Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael
Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the
kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
The film is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its
premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter described
Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and
a firm grasp on a difficult accent."[41]
Her confirmed future projects include the animated movies Beowulf, playing
Grendel's mother, and Kung Fu Panda. Jolie will also appear in Wanted, an
action film based on a graphic novel by Mark Millar, and she was cast as
Dagny Taggart in the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.[42]
Humanitarian work
Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while
filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. According
to Jolie, "I discovered things about what's happening in the world...
Cambodia was really eye opening for me."[43] Deeply affected by these
experiences, she eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on
international trouble spots. In the following months she agreed to visit
different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation
and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first
field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later
expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.[44] In the coming months she
returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later visited Afghan refugees in
Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an
international UNHCR emergency appeal.[45] She insisted on covering all costs
related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living
conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.[44] Impressed by her
interest and devotion in the subject, UNHCR named her a Goodwill Ambassador
on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, despite her warning that
her controversial public image might shed a negative light on the U.N.[46]
In a press conference Jolie explained her motives for joining the refugee
agency:
“ We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that
millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't
believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice
and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to
believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.[44] ”
During her first three years as Goodwill Ambassador Jolie concentrated her
efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and internally displaced
persons (IDPs) all around the world. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she
stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be
commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”[47] In 2002,
Jolie visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in
Ecuador to take a closer look at the “Western Hemisphere's most severe
humanitarian crisis”.[48] She and US Secretary of State Colin Powell opened
events to celebrate World Refugee Day 2002 on June 20 in Washington,
D.C.[49] Jolie then went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a
visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan.
UNHCR's Representative to Kenya, George Okoth-Obbo, praised her “presence,
just to bring some joy into what is undoubtedly a hard life for many of the
people here”.[50] She also visited Angolan refugees while she was filming
Beyond Borders in Namibia.
In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where she traveled
to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and she paid a week-long
visit to Sri Lanka, where she saw the post–war conditions in northern Sri
Lanka. Jolie again attended World Refugee Day on June 20 in Washington,
D.C., and later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to
North Caucasus to learn about all aspects of UNHCR's operations in the
region. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders in October
2003 she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries
that chronicle her early field missions (2001-2002). All her proceeds from
the book went to UNHCR. During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she
asked to visit Ruwaished camp in Jordan's remote eastern desert, 70 km from
the Iraqi border. The camp hosted some 800 people who had fled Iraq during
the U.S.-led invasion and later that month she visited Sudanese refugees
near the Egyptian capital in Kilo Arbaa We Nus.
On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizona in
2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest
Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. With the
humanitarian situation in Sudan worsening, she flew to Chad in June 2004,
paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting
in western Sudan's Darfur region. Four months later she returned to the
region, this time going directly into West Darfur to learn about the
situation of thousands of IDPs. She stressed the need for security and
access to displaced people's home villages at a press conference in the
Sudanese capital, Khartoum. On June 18, 2004 she and US Secretary of State
Colin Powell met again in Washington to launch the three day events of World
Refugee Day.[51] Also in 2004 Jolie visited Afghan refugees in Thailand and
on a private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays she visited
UNHCR's regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer
patients in the Lebanese capital.
With increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting
humanitarian causes on a political level. Since 2005 she has attended the
World Economic Forum in Davos, announcing the formation of a Council of
Business Leaders with UNHCR's Deputy High Commissioner, Wendy Chamberlin, in
2005, and participated in the panel discussion Human Rights: Reduced to
Charity? in 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in
Washington, D.C. where she met with congressmen and senators at least 20
times from 2003.[46] She explained in Forbes:
“ As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way
to move the ball.[46] ”
Among others, she pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in
reaction to her previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona.
On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in
Washington, D.C. where she promoted the bill and in support of it announced
the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an
organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no
legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of
$500,000 for its first two years.[52] The Unaccompanied Alien Child
Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a
bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was
signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been
granted.[46] In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using the
public’s interest in her to promote humanitarian causes through the mass
media. In May 2005 Jolie filmed a MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie &
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey
Sachs on their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in Western Kenya.
There, Sachs's United Nations Millennium Project team is working with locals
to end poverty, hunger and disease. In September 2006 Jolie announced the
founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global
Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.[53]
Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghan refugees, in May 2005 and
she also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz. She returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt during the
Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the October 8 Kashmir
earthquake. They met many quake victims as well as President Musharraf. In
2006 Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Yéle
Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. Jolie
also arranged a deal with People allowing them to print the first picture
showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to Yéle
Haïti.[54] In November 2006, while filming A Mighty Heart in India, she
visited Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi and met the Minister of
State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, praising India's longstanding
hospitality to refugees. Jolie spent Christmas Day with Colombian refugees
in San José, Costa Rica where she handed out presents and met with Costa
Rican officials. In February 2007, Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day
mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from the
Darfur region of Sudan. In an op-ed for the Washington Post she stressed the
need for justice and the increased involvement of the International Criminal
Court to establish an enduring peace.[55] In May, Jolie and Pitt donated $1
million to three relief organizations in Darfur and neighbouring Chad.[56]
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. On October
24, 2003 she was the first recipient of the new created Citizen of the World
Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Cambodia's King
Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation
work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up
a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns
property there.[57] On October 12, 2005, Jolie was awarded the Global
Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.[58] In February 2007, she was accepted by
the bipartisan think tank Council on Foreign Relations for a special
five-year term designed to "nurture the next generation of foreign policy
makers".[59]
Personal life
Relationships
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star
in the film Hackers. She attended her wedding in black leather trousers and
a white shirt, which had her groom's name painted in her blood on the
back.[42] Jolie and Miller separated one year later and subsequently
divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later
explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a
girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."[21]
She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, who she had met on the
set of Pushing Tin, on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public
declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one
another's blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a
favorite topic of the entertainment media.[42] Jolie and Thornton divorced
on May 27, 2003. Asked in Vogue about the sudden dissolution of their
marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we
totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's
scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know
yourself yet."[60]
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged
that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu,
"I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell
in love with her the first second I saw her."[61] In an interview with
Barbara Walters in 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of
course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay
to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely!
Yes!"[62]
In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal
when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the divorce of actors
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had
started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith; however, she has
denied this in several interviews. In an interview with Ann Curry in 2005,
she explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father
cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at
myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who
would cheat on his wife."[62]
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented about the nature of their
relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate
paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for
divorce; they show Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya.
During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing
frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple,
dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People
that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their
relationship for the first time in public.[42]
Children
On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt
(originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie[14]). He was born on August 5 2001,
as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in
Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited
Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001.
After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie
received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually
translated as "beneficent",[63] and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has
gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media;
he was named the "cutest celebrity kid,"[64] and he is known for his mohawk
hairstyle.
On July 6, 2005, Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara
Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), who was orphaned by
AIDS. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005 as Tena Adam.[65] Jolie picked her
up at a Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after
they returned to the United States Zahara had to spend time in a hospital
for dehydration and malnutrition. Jolie stated that "she was six months and
not nine pounds. Her skin, you could squeeze it, it stuck together."[42]
Zahara's name means "flower" in Swahili, the second name "Marley" comes from
late Jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley.[63]
Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and
collected her daughter;[42] later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the
decision to adopt Zahara together.[66] In December 2005 it was confirmed
that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, and on January
19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal
surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".[67]
On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt,
at night at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh
was born by a scheduled caesarean section, due to breech presentation, and
Pitt was there to cut her umbilical cord. Shiloh, according to a
long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful
one".[63] Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian
passport while speaking to local journalists,[68] and Jolie decided to offer
the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself,
rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots.
People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while
British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5
million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most
expensive celebrity image of all time.[69] All profits were donated to an
undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. On July 26, 2006 Madame Tussauds in
New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first
infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.[70]
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax
Thien Jolie, who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a
local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang.[71] Jolie
collected the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.[72] His
new name is a combination of the Latin word for "peace" and the Vietnamese
word for "sky" or "heaven."[63] In April 2007, Jolie filed a petition to
officially change his surname to "Jolie-Pitt".[73] On The Daily Show, Jolie
revealed that her new son's name was suggested by her mother before her
death.[74]
Tattoos
Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention
and has often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she
is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has
forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love
scenes.[75] Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her
productions. She frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has
said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning. Jolie
currently has 13 known tattoos, among them a Tennessee Williams quote "A
prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" which she got together with her
mother, the Arabic phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb
"quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me also destroys me),[76] and a
Buddhist Pali prayer written in the Khmer script for her son Maddox.[77] She
also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder
indicating the birthplaces of her children.[78] Over time she covered or
lasered several of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her
former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死) and a
window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window,
because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows
wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.[22].
Jolie in the media
Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon
Voight. At 7 she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written
by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy
Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career,
Jolie decided not to use “Voight” as a stage name, because she wished to
establish her own identity as an actress.[42] Jolie was never shy about
controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public
persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at
the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared "I'm so in love with my brother
right now" which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that
night, sparked rumors in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship
with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors and said while
appearing on Inside the Actors Studio “the world is a lot sicker than I
thought”.[22] Jolie and Haven later explained in interviews that after their
parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on
to each other as a means of emotional support.[42]
Jolie is noted as "the one A-list celebrity without a publicist",[62] and
she quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since she presented herself as very
outspoken in interviews, once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a
female fan".[62] Her love life, especially her interest in sadomasochism,
has often been featured in the media. In 2004 she stated in Allure, "S&M sex
can be misinterpreted as violence. It's really about trust. I like to push
boundaries, both emotional and sexual, with another person. That's when I've
felt the sexiest. I've been in both submissive and dominant roles because I
want more."[7] As one of her most distinctive physical features, Jolie's
lips have attracted notable media attention and she has been described as
"the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking
cosmetic surgery.[79] She also created headlines with her much publicized
marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate
for global humanitarian problems. As she took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill
Ambassador she started to use her celebrity status to highlight humanitarian
causes worldwide, e.g. promoting World Refugee Day 2006 in a two hour CNN
interview with Anderson Cooper which attracting more than double the
audience of his typical newscast.[80] Jolie has been taking flying lessons
since 2004 and she has a student pilot and private pilot (UK based)
license.[60] The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but she said
that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of
his culture. Jolie has not stated definitively whether or not she believes
in God. When asked in an interview with The Onion A.V. Club in 2000 if there
was a God, she said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There
doesn't need to be a God for me."[81]
Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most
reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed her pregnancy in
early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point
of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina
fever";[3] among others, there were several false wedding rumors including
an alleged imminent wedding in Laglio, Italy that was even further ignited
by the local mayor and was picked up by many noted news services like the
Associated Press and the BBC.[82] Trying to avoid the media attention, the
couple went to Namibia for the birth of “the most anticipated baby since
Jesus Christ”, as it has been described.[83]
Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world.
According to the Q Score survey by Marketing Evaluations Inc., in 2000,
subsequent to her Oscar win, 31% of respondents in the United States said
Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 she was familiar to 81% of
Americans.[46] In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42
international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the
favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide.[84] Also in
2006, Jolie was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential
people in the world by Time,[85] she was featured on the cover of Forbes
"The Celebrity 100" edition, ranking at No. 35,[86] and she was described as
the world's most beautiful woman in the "100 Most Beautiful" issue of
People.[87] In February 2007, she was voted the greatest sex symbol of all
time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest Sex
Symbols.[1] In 2007, Jolie was named as one of the Power Givers by Time
Magazine.[88]
Filmography
Year ↓ Title ↓ Role ↓ Other notes ↓
1982 Lookin' to Get Out Tosh
1993 Cyborg 2 Casella "Cash" Reese
1995 Hackers Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
1996 Mojave Moon Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
Love Is All There Is Gina Malacici
Foxfire Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
1997 Playing God Claire
True Women (TV) Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
George Wallace (TV) Cornelia Wallace Golden Globe – Best Supporting Actress
1998 Gia (TV) Gia Marie Carangi Golden Globe, SAG Award – Best Leading
Actress
Hell's Kitchen Gloria McNeary
Playing by Heart Joan National Board of Review Award – Breakthrough
Performance Actress
Pushing Tin Mary Bell
1999 The Bone Collector Amelia Donaghy
Girl, Interrupted Lisa Rowe Golden Globe, SAG Award, Academy Award – Best
Supporting Actress
2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds Sara 'Sway' Wayland
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Lara Croft
Original Sin Julia Russell/Bonnie Castle
2002 Life or Something Like It Lanie Kerrigan
2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Lara Croft
Beyond Borders Sarah Jordan
2004 Taking Lives Illeana Scott
Shark Tale Lola (voice)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Franky
Alexander Olympias
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith Jane Smith
2006 The Good Shepherd Clover Wilson
2007 A Mighty Heart Mariane Pearl
Beowulf Grendel's Mother (voice)
2008 Wanted The Fox
Atlas Shrugged Dagny Taggart
Kung Fu Panda Tigress (voice)
The Changeling
Awards
Preceded by
Kathy Bates
for The Late Shift Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a
Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
1997
for George Wallace Succeeded by
Faye Dunaway
for Gia,
Camryn Manheim
for The Practice
Preceded by
Alfre Woodard
for Miss Evers' Boys Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-series or
Motion Picture Made for Television
1998
for Gia Succeeded by
Halle Berry
for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Preceded by
Alfre Woodard
for Miss Evers' Boys Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Miniseries
or Television Movie
1998
for Gia Succeeded by
Halle Berry
for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Preceded by
Judi Dench
for Shakespeare in Love Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1999
for Girl, Interrupted Succeeded by
Marcia Gay Harden
for Pollock
Preceded by
Lynn Redgrave
for Gods and Monsters Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress -
Motion Picture
1999
for Girl, Interrupted Succeeded by
Kate Hudson
for Almost Famous
Preceded by
Kathy Bates
for Primary Colors Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress -
Motion Picture
1999
for Girl, Interrupted Succeeded by
Judi Dench
for Chocolat
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Further reading
* Wills, Dominic . Angelina Jolie biography. Tiscali. Accessed April 14,
2007.
* WENN. News for Angelina Jolie. IMDb. Accessed April 14, 2007.
* UNHCR. Angelina Jolie UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Fact Sheet. UNHCR.org.
Accessed April 14, 2007.
* UNHCR. Field Missions. UNHCR.org. Accessed April 14, 2007.
* Jolie, Angelina. Notes from My Travels. Pocket Books, 2003. ISBN
0-7434-7023-0.
* Heath, Chris . Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic. Rolling Stone. July 2001.
Accessed April 14, 2007.
* Van Meter, Jonathan. Body Beautiful. Vogue. April 2002. Accessed April 14,
2007.
* Grossberg, Josh. Angelina Jolie's Name Interrupted. E! Online. September
17, 2002. Accessed April 14, 2007.
* Kirkland, Bruce. The new Angelina Jolie. Jam! Showbiz. October 19, 2003.
Accessed April 14, 2007.
* Van Meter, Jonathan. Learning to Fly. Vogue. March 2004. Accessed April
14, 2007.
* Schruers, Fred. Angelina Jolie. Premiere Magazine. October 2004. Accessed
April 14, 2007.
* Sessums, Kevin. Wild at heart. Allure. November 2004. Accessed April 14,
2007.
* Matthew Swibel. Bad Girl Interrupted. Forbes. June 12, 2006. Accessed
April 14, 2007.
* Van Meter, Jonathan. The Bold and the Beautiful. Vogue. January 2007.
Accessed April 14, 2007.
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