Biography of Angelina Jolie

Biography of Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie born: 4 June 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
Angelina Jolie appears wholly unconcerned by controversy. Ever-keen to talk about her breakdowns, her disorders, her fantasies and her world-famous penchant for S&M, many would say Angelina Jolie 's built a career on titillating public confession. But Angelina Jolie 's also an increasingly fine and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted being only the latest in a string of prestigious honours. Onscreen, as in bed, Angelina Jolie is a risk-taker, and perhaps deserves to be seen as the spiritual sister of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange.
Angelina Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 - her name meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her father, Jon, was already an established superstar, having topped the bill in such classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When Angelina Jolie was 2, he'd scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By then though, he'd already split from her mother, the part-Iroquois actress and model Marcheline Bertrand (now Angelina Jolie 's manager), who'd moved with Angelina Jolie and her brother James to the East Coast - to the Palisades, New York, to be more precise.
Living here, Angelina Jolie was a happy child. Angelina Jolie collected snakes and lizards - her favourite lizard being named Vladimir, and her favourite snake Harry Dean Stanton - and, oddly, like many females of her age, Angelina Jolie had a major crush on Mr Spock. Angelina Jolie would wear glittery clothing, including sparkly underwear, and flounce around, already performing, keen to make people laugh, to make them like her. Angelina Jolie was a member of the Kissy Girls, who hunted boys down and kiss them till they screamed - until the school was forced to call the parents and the gang broke up. Marcheline would take the kids to the movies often, and Jolie claims this is where she got the notion to be an actress - not from her uncle, Chip Taylor (an actor and composer), not from her godmother Jacqueline Bisset, and definitely NOT from her father, though at age 7 she did appear in Lookin' To Get Out, a movie about inveterate gamblers, co-written by and starring Jon Voight.
Angelina Jolie began training and performing at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at around 12. Angelina Jolie was seen in several stage productions at the Institute. Angelina Jolie worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as the Rolling Stones, Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, Angelina Jolie has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven. Angelina Jolie landed her first feature film starring part in HACKERS, about a group of high school computer hackers. Previously, Angelina Jolie had roles in independent features Gathering Evidence and Oh No, Not Her.Angelina Jolie was married to her co-star from Hackers, Jonny Lee Miller. The marriage took place in May of 1996 where Angelina Jolie wore black rubber clothes (although they are now divorced). Angelina Jolie has a extensive dagger collection (likes knives) and has several tattoos (one is the Japanese word for death on her shoulder). Today Angelina Jolie splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Angelina Joli Filmography

Angelina Joli Filmography

•  1982  Lookin' to Get Out
• 1993  Cyborg 2
• 1995  Without Evidence
• 1995  Hackers
• 1996  Love Is All There Is
• 1996  Mojave Moon
• 1996  Foxfire
• 1997  True Women
• 1997  George Wallace
• 1997  Playing God
• 1998  Gia
• 1998  Hell's Kitchen
• 1998  Playing by Heart

• 1999  Pushing Tin
• 1999  The Bone Collector
• 1999  Girl, Interrupted

• 2000  Gone in 60 Seconds
• 2001  Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• 2001  Original Sin
• 2002  Life or Something Like It
• 2003  Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
• 2003  Beyond Borders
• 2004  Taking Lives

• 2004  Shark Tale
• 2004  Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• 2004  Alexander

• • 2005  Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • 2006  The Good Shepherd
  • 2007 A Mighty Heart
  • 2007  Beowulf
  • 2008  Kung Fu Panda
  • 2008  Wanted
  • 2008  Changeling
  • 2010  Salt
  • 2010  The Tourist
  • 2011  Kung Fu Panda 2

Angelina Jolie Pictures From A Little Girl To A Beautiful Woman

Angelina Jolie Pictures From A Little Girl To A Beautiful Woman

Here goes a short time travel by the means of photos of popular actress, Angelina Jolie, from the time she was six (1981) until now. This is an interesting photo album that follows Angelina Jolie, from a little girl to a beautiful woman and world famous and successful actress. It is obvious even form the early age that she was to become the most beautiful woman when she grows up.

Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie is the only actress of her generation who can thank her famous father for the lips that have become her trademark. The actress was born Angelina Jolie Voight to the pillow-lipped Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles.

Raised mostly by her mother after her parents divorced while she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. She also did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, living in such places as London, New York, and Los Angeles before settling for a time in New York as a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York University, where she first started acting in theater productions. The fledgling actress soon moved on to film with a small role in 1993's Cyborg 2, followed in 1995 by her turn as a computer hacker in the more widely seen Hackers. The film gave her her first taste of recognition, as well as an introduction to Trainspotting's Jonny Lee Miller, to whom she was married for a short time.

After appearing in a number of mediocre films, Jolie finally hit it big in 1997 with her Golden Globe-winning performance as George Wallace's wife in the highly acclaimed TV movie George Wallace. The role, coupled with her Emmy-nominated performance in the title role of HBO's Gia, provided Jolie with a new level of professional respect and recognition. She was soon appearing on talk shows and in magazines, answering questions about everything from her multiple tattoos to her famous father to her brief marriage.

She was also netting roles in high-profile projects: In 1998 Jolie headlined an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Anthony Edwards, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Madeline Stowe in Playing By Heart. The following year, she was part of another high-voltage cast in Mike Newell's Pushing Tin, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Although the film was neither a critical nor a financial success, it did little to diminish the rapid ascent of the career of the actress, who was in hot demand for projects that would further elevate her already rising star. In 2000, Jolie's star received one of its greatest boosts to date when the actress won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a volatile mental patient in Girl, Interrupted. Later that year, her personal life also got a boost in the form of her April marriage to Billy Bob Thornton.

Onscreen, Jolie was hard to miss in 2000. She starred in a number of films, including the crime thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds, in which she co-starred as a car thief alongside Nicolas Cage, and Original Sin, a thriller that featured her as the bad-seed bride of a Cuban tycoon (Antonio Banderas). If she was hard to miss in 2000, Jolie was impossible to escape in 2001 with her turn as shapely video-game adventuress Lara Croft in the long anticipated film adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video-game franchise. Carrying on the tradition of video-game movies that are light on plot but heavy on the action, Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (2003) scored with summer audiences and quickly shot to number one at the box office despite disparaging reviews citing an incoherent story line, unlike Life or Something Like It, the 2002 romantic comedy-drama that critics and audiences alike would rather not have seen.

On July 18th, 2002, Jolie filed for divorce from Thornton, claiming that their priorities no longer meshed after having adopted a Cambodian son, Maddox. Though the famously quirky couple were no longer, Angelina's film schedule remained hectic. In 2003 she would play a rich-girl-turned-humanitarian in Beyond Borders, while 2004 saw a host of parts for Jolie, including a role in Oliver Stone's Alexander, an epic biography of Alexander the Great starring Colin Farrell, as well as a turn alongside fellow Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and a role as a tough FBI agent in the thriller Taking Lives. Finally, Jolie closed out the year by lending her voice to Dreamworks' animated kid-flick Shark Tale.

While the Jolie-starring Mr. and Mrs. Smith proved one of Summer 2005's biggest money-makers, the actress's name fell on the lips of gossip-mongers for most of the year not for the film itself, but rather for Jolie's relationship with costar Brad Pitt. Though the couple long shirked and denied rumors of an affair, the paparazzi regularly caught them together in public, and
Pitt eventually filed for divorce from wife Jennifer Aniston. Subsequently, they not only conceived a child in fall 2005 (whom they named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, but became foster parents to two adopted children, Maddox and an Ethiopian girl, Zahara Marley. Jolie delivered Shiloh in Namibia, via caesarian section, as May 2006 wrapped, and the couple flew an ob-gyn in from Los Angeles to assist with the birth.

By mid-2006, Jolie - as an actress, personality, and sex symbol - claimed an almost matchless status in Hollywood popularity, rivaled only by Jennifer Aniston, ironically. That year saw Jolie claim a supporting role in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, and announce her forthcoming role in Beowulf. By late 2007, talk had begun to swirl in the trades regarding Jolie's enlistment in a high-budget action franchise based on the life and adventures of U.S. intelligence operative Kathi Lynn Austin.

Angelina Jolie Photos Gallery

Angelina Jolie Photos

 

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