Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, director and producer who is well-known for her sexual appeal as and her charitable work. The role she played in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was a 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. Then, she pursued a degree in acting at New York University. In addition to acting in theater productions, she also modeled and appeared in music videos.Jolie's first big film part was in Hackers (1995) which was the filming of which she had her first marriage with British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film failed to find an audience, and neither did several subsequent films. In 1997, however Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the television film George Wallace, and she later won the Golden Globe Award for her performance. The following year she played a supermodel struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO film Gia the actress, which earned her multiple honours, including the Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she starred in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year , she was married to Billy Bob Thornton (divorced 2003).After her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in a series of action movies. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)), she played the role of Nicole Cage's lover. Later, she took on a British accent, learned combat sports and kickboxing for the role of the title in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). She played the role of Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) and played alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City). Both films disappointed in terms of box-office revenue, however Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was a success. Jolie played a character pretending to be a normal householdwife as she worked on the film. Brad Pitt became her co-star.