Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on the 4th of June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actor and director, well-known for her sexual edginess and sex appeal as well as for her charitable work. Her part in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was one of the roles she received for the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her early life 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. New York University later taught her drama. Alongside acting in theatre productions, she performed as a model and in music videos.Jolie's first big movie role was in Hackers (1995) which was the filming process, she became engaged to her first husband British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). It was not well-received, like a variety of other films. In 1997, however Jolie gained a lot of notice for her performance as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor the television film George Wallace, and she later was awarded a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Jolie played the supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO movie Gia in 1999. This role earned her numerous honours including an award of the 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 was divorced. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) Jolie played Nicole Cage's lover. Later, she switched to an accent that resembled a British accent, and mastered combat sports and kickboxing to play the title roles 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 also appeared alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set 1930s New York City). Both films failed at box office, however Jolie had a great time in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She played a woman who pretended to be an assassin. While working on the film she met Brad Pitt who became her co-star.