Angelina Jolie: A Remarkable Journey | Biography, Movies, Children, & Facts"

 

American actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She is well-known for her sex appeal, edginess, and humanitarian endeavors. Her supporting performance as a mentally ill patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999) earned her an Academy Award.

Early Years

Jolie, the actor Jon Voight's daughter, was born and raised primarily in New York, moving to Los Angeles when she was eleven years old. After spending two years at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, she enrolled in Beverly Hills High School. Later on, she attended New York University to study drama. She acted in plays, did modeling work, and had appearances in music videos.

Roles in films

Jolie's first significant film appearance was in the 1995 picture Hackers, where she also met British actor Jonny Lee Miller, who she married in 1996 and later divorced in 1999. Like a number of other films that followed, this one also failed to find an audience. However, Jolie gained a lot of notoriety in 1997 when she portrayed the governor of segregationist Alabama's wife in the television film George Wallace. For the role, Jolie went on to win a Golden Globe. She portrayed a supermodel battling heroin addiction in the HBO film Gia the following year, a role that brought her numerous accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. She starred alongside Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack in the comedy Pushing Tin in 1999.

Following her Academy Award–winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in other action films. After assuming a British accent and mastering street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), she played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in the 2000 film Gone in Sixty Seconds. She played Alexander the Great's mother in Oliver Stone's 2004 film Alexander. She also acted in the science fiction thriller Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was set in 1930s New York City, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. While filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jolie played an assassin posing as a typical housewife. The movie was a box office blockbuster, and while filming it, Jolie met Brad Pitt, who would go on to become her partner.

In Robert De Niro's 2006 film The Good Shepherd, she portrayed the resentful spouse of a former CIA agent played by Matt Damon. Jolie's portrayal of Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007) won her praise from critics. The movie, which was based on a true incident, traced the attempts to free Pearl's husband Daniel, who was abducted and then killed by Islamic extremists while he was in Pakistan doing reporting for The Wall Street Journal. Wanted (2008) and Beowulf (2007) were Jolie's next two releases. She received another Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a mother whose son is abducted and then replaced by a different youngster in Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008).

In the 2010 action thriller Salt, Jolie played a CIA agent who is suspected of spying for Russia. She also acted with Johnny Depp in the comedy The Tourist. Later on, she played Maleficent's main antagonist (2014). The live-action movie made an effort to humanize the malevolent fairy from Disney's 1959 animated 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 fictional characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, respectively, in the fantasy-adventure film Come Away in 2020.

In the 2021 action-thriller film Those Who Wish Me Dead, Jolie played a firefighter defending a small child who was being pursued by assassins. She made her screen debut as the immortal warrior Thena in the Marvel Cinematic Universe action film Eternals, which was released in 2021. Jolie also did voice work for a number of movies, such as The One and Only Ivan (2020) and the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008) and its sequels (2011 and 2016).

Leading

In the Land of Blood and Honey, a tragic love story set during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s, marked Jolie's directorial and scripting debut in 2011. After that, in 2014, she directed the World War II drama Unbroken. The Coen brothers wrote the screenplay for the movie, which is based on the true story of an Olympic runner and U.S. Air Force commander who was captured by the Japanese after his plane crashed. By the Sea, a drama starring Brad Pitt that centers on a dysfunctional relationship in 1970s France, was directed, written, and starred her in 2015. Jolie then released a 2017 adaptation of Loung Ung's novel, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which was based on her

Personal and charitable endeavors

People magazine's cover features Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt alongside their baby daughter, Shiloh.

People magazine's cover features Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt alongside their baby daughter, Shiloh.

On June 19, 2006, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt appeared on the cover of People magazine alongside their baby daughter, Shiloh.

Frequently, Jolie's personal life garnered attention comparable to that of her acting career. Tabloids took a keen interest in her relationship with Pitt, and the couple's biological children, Shiloh (2006) and twins Knox and Vivienne (2008), created a media storm. Pitt and Jolie tied the knot in 2014, but Jolie filed for divorce two years later. Her altruistic efforts attracted attention as well. She was designated as a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.

Individual and philanthropic pursuits

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are shown on the cover of People magazine with their infant daughter, Shiloh.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are shown on the cover of People magazine with their infant daughter, Shiloh.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with their infant daughter Shiloh, were featured on the cover of People magazine on June 19, 2006.

Jolie's personal life often attracted as much attention as her professional career. Her relationship with Pitt piqued the interest of tabloids, and the couple's biological children, the twins Knox and Vivienne (2008) and Shiloh (2006), caused a stir in the media. Pitt and Jolie got married in 2014, but two years later Jolie filed for divorce. Her charitable endeavors also garnered notice. In 2001, she received the title of Goodwill Ambassador.