Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actress, director and producer, best known for her sex appeal , as in her work for the cause of humanitarian aid. The role she played in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was one of the roles she received in the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her growing up in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Film Institute, she was accepted into Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. Jolie also performed in theatre productions and modeled for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) that Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996, divorced in 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film did not garner a following. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor, attracting much attention in 1997. Jolie later won an award, the Golden Globe Award. Jolie played the supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. This role earned her numerous awards including a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Following her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie was in Pushing Tin, a comedy with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and in 2003 she got divorced. She was the girlfriend of the carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopted a British accent and learned 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 Alexander's mom in Oliver Stone's Alexander in 2004 and additionally, she starred alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow the thriller that is set in the 1930s in New York City. Both films failed at box office, however Jolie was successful with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She was a housewife, pretending to play an assassin. While making the film she became acquainted with Brad Pitt who became her partner.