Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actor, director, and producer best known for her sex appeal as well as her humanitarian work. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her growing up, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she played the part of an inpatient with mental illness in Girl, interrupted (1999). After having attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute two years ago, she later attended Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. Jolie was also an actor in theater productions. She also did modeling and appeared in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996, divorced 1999). The film was not able to attract an audience, as did another series of films. However, in 1997, Jolie gained a lot of notice for her performance as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the television film George Wallace, and she later received an award called the Golden Globe Award for her performance. The following year she played a supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia, a performance that earned her multiple honours which included a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999 she appeared 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 the Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in a series of action-oriented films. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) she played Nicole Cage's girlfriend. Later, she changed her accent to the British accent and 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 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, a thriller about sci-fi set in 1930s New York City. Both films did poorly at the box-office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was the biggest success. Jolie played a character who was playing a typical homewife during the making of the movie. Brad Pitt became her co-star.