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The American actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie, real name Angelina Jolie Voight, was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She is renowned for her edginess and sex appeal as well as for her charitable activities. She received an Academy Award for her supporting performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) as a mentally ill patient.

Early Years

Jolie,one of Celebrities in the world, the daughter of the actor Jon Voight, grew up in New York for the majority of her youth until moving to Los Angeles at the age of 11. She spent two years studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute before enrolling in Beverly Hills High School. Later, she attended New York University to study acting. She did modeling and starred in music videos in addition to acting in theatrical shows.

Movie Roles

During the making of Hackers (1995), Jolie met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she later got married and divorced. The movie, like with a number of others that came after it, had trouble drawing in viewers. Jolie, however, received a lot of attention in 1997 for her role as the segregationist governor of Alabama's wife in the television film George Wallace, for which she eventually received a Golden Globe Award. In the HBO film Gia the next year, she portrayed a supermodel who was battling heroin addiction. For this role, she won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred alongside Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack in the comedy Pushing Tin in 1999.

Following the Oscar-winning performance she made in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie acted in a number of action films. In Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), she portrayed the girlfriend of a carjacker played by Nicolas Cage. Later, for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), she assumed a British accent, learned street fighting, and practiced kickboxing. She portrayed Alexander the Great's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander in 2004, and she co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in the science fiction thriller Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which is set in 1930s New York City. Both movies failed to perform well at the box office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was a success. She portrayed an assassin who pretended to be a typical housewife in the movie; while making the movie, she met Brad Pitt, who would later become her partner.

She one of Celebrities in the world, played the resentful wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon) in Robert De Niro's 2006 film The Good Shepherd. Jolie received favorable reviews for her portrayal of Mariane Pearl in the 2007 film A Mighty Heart. The movie, which was based on a true tale, follows attempts to save Pearl's husband Daniel after he was abducted and later killed by Islamic extremists while working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Pakistan. Jolie's subsequent films are Wanted (2008) and Beowulf (2007). Another Oscar nomination came her way for her performance as a mother whose son is abducted and then replaced by a different youngster in Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008).

In 2010 Jolie acted in the action thriller Salt as a CIA agent accused of espionage for Russia and co-starred with Johnny Depp in the comedy The Tourist. She later played the title antagonist in Maleficent (2014). The live-action movie made an effort to humanize the evil fairy from the 1959 Disney animation masterpiece Sleeping Beauty. Later, in 2019, Jolie starred in the follow-up. She played the mother of Peter Pan and Alice (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), two characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, respectively, in the fantasy adventure film Come Away in 2020. In the action-thriller 2021 film Those Who Wish Me Dead,Jolie played a firefighter defending a young boy from assailants. She additionally had an appearance in the action film Eternals from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021 as the immortal warrior Thena. Jolie also contributed voices for a number of movies, including The One and Only Ivan (2020), the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), and its follow-ups (2011 and 2016).

Directing

In the Land of Blood and Honey, a tragic love story set during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s, marked Jolie's debut as a filmmaker and screenwriter in 2011. After that, she directed the 2014 World War II drama Unbroken. The Coen brothers wrote the screenplay for the movie, which is based on the true account of an Olympic runner and U.S. Air Force officer who became a Japanese POW after his plane crashed. The drama By the Sea, which centers on a dysfunctional relationship in 1970s France, was directed, written, and starring her in addition to Brad Pitt. After that, Jolie released the 2017 film First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which was an adaptation of Loung Ung's autobiography, growing up under the harsh Khmer Rouge government in the 1970s.

Personal and charitable endeavors

With their baby daughter Shiloh, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt appeared on the cover of People magazine.

With their baby daughter Shiloh, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt appeared on the cover of People magazine.

At least as much attention was paid to Jolie's private life as to her performance. When the couple's biological children Shiloh (2006) and twins Knox and Vivienne (2008) were born, it fueled tabloid speculation about her connection with Pitt. Jolie and Pitt wed in 2014, but Jolie requested a divorce two years later. Her humanitarian efforts also attracted attention. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) designated her as a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.She was one of Celebrities in the world.

After that appointment, she visited many impoverished nations and adopted Maddox and Zahara, two children from Ethiopia and Cambodia, respectively. Pitt later adopted the kids, and the couple also adopted Pax, a boy from Vietnam, in 2007. After learning that she has mutations in her BRCA1 gene that enhance the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer, Jolie made headlines in 2013 for undergoing a prophylactic double mastectomy. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also gave her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award that year.