Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actress and director who is known for her sexy appeal and edginess and also for her work in the field of humanitarian aid. Jolie was awarded an Academy Award for her supporting performance as a psychiatrist in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her youth in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. After that, she studied acting at New York University. Jolie also performed in theatre productions and modelled for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) when Jolie first met Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married 1996; divorcing 1999). Similar to several other films, Hackers did not gain a traction. In 1997, however Jolie gained a lot of notice for her performance as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the television movie George Wallace, and she later won the Golden Globe Award for her performance. In the HBO film Gia in which she played a supermodel with drug addiction. Jolie was awarded a variety of distinctions and awards, including a 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 her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action-oriented films. Jolie played the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. In the following years, she adopted a British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing in order to be able to play the characters of Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. She played the role of Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander in 2004. She also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow which is a suspense film about sci-fi set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box office disappointments, but Jolie had a smash with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) the film in which she played an assassin pretending to be a normal housewife; while working on the film she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.