Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director most well-known for her sex appeal, edginess, and humanitarian work. Her supporting role 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. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She later enrolled in Beverly Hills High School. She later studied acting at New York University. She also appeared in theatre productions and modeled for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) that Jolie was introduced to Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996 and divorced in 1999). The film was not able to attract an audience, which was the case for several subsequent films. In 1997, however Jolie received a lot of attention for her role as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the TV film George Wallace, and she later received an award called the Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. In the HBO film Gia the actress played a supermodel with drug addiction. The actress was awarded numerous distinctions, including the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she appeared in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and in the year following she got married to Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning turn in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie was a part of a number of action films. Jolie portrayed the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Then she switched to an accent that resembled a British accent as well as mastered street fights and kickboxing to play the role of 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. She also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow, a thriller featuring sci-fi in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office disappointments However, Jolie made a splash in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin posing as an ordinary housewife. While working on the film, she met Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.