Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born on the 4th of June 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actor, director, and producer who is well-known for her sexual appeal as in her work for the cause of humanitarian aid. Her role as a supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was the part she won in 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. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. Apart from acting in theater productions, she also played the role of a model as well as appearing in music videos.Jolie's first big movie role was in Hackers (1995) which was the filming of which she had her first marriage with British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996 divorced in 1999). It was not a huge success, like a variety of other films. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor, garnering plenty of attention in 1997. Jolie later won an award, the Golden Globe Award. Jolie played a supermodel suffering from drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. The performance won her numerous awards including a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. She co-starred with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. In the following year, she tied the knot with Thornton (divorced in 2003). Jolie portrayed the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Then, she took on the British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing in order to be able to play the characters of 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 disappointed at the box-office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was an enormous success. Jolie played a character acting as a normal homewife during the making of the movie. Brad Pitt became her co-star.