Angelina Jolie- Biography and Filmography

Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand. She is also very famous with her nick names Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ. She is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Jolie Growing up in Los Angeles, She later trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions. Angelina has been cited as one of the world’s most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.

Agelina Jolie’s Family
Angelina Jolie was no stranger to the film industry, Jolie is the being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Ange Raised mostly by her mother After her parent’s separation in 1976 she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. Her brother name is James Haven Voight She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area’s more affluent families. Jolie’s mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. Jolie has been long estranged from her father. In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to “Angelina Jolie”, dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002. In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had “serious mental problems” on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father. On March 28, 1996,

Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, but Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. And after that in May 5, 2000 Angelina again married with Billy Bob Thornton but once again her married life not be a succeed and Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them “Brangelina”. On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt’s child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public. Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt(born August 5, 2001 in Cambodia; adopted March 10, 2002), Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt(born November 29, 2003 in Vietnam; adopted March 15, 2007), Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt(born January 8, 2005 in Ethiopia; adopted July 6, 2005), Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt(born May 27, 2006 in Swakopmund, Namibia), Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt(born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France), Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt(born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France) are the childerens of Angelina Jolie.

Angelina Jolie’s Career
Angelia jolie did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, she has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven. 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. In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi.
But this is not the start of here career. Angelina made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin’ to Get Out, Jolie’s acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies True Women (1997) (TV). Jolie’s career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO’s Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi’s life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin (2001), She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office. Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie’s real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives. Jolie’s only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film, directed by Doug Liman. She next appeared in Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA. In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools. A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Beowulf (2007) which was created through the motion capture technique. Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide. She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008). With revenue of $632 million internationally, it became her highest grossing film to date. he same year, Jolie played Christine Collins, the lead in Clint Eastwood’s drama Changeling (2008), which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with members of Congress at least 20 times from 2003. She explained in Forbes: “As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that’s the way to move the ball.”

Angelina Jolie’s Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	Lookin’ to Get Out	Tosh
1993	“Angela & Viril”	Angela	2 minute short film
	“Alice & Viril”	Alice	2 minute short film
	Cyborg 2	Casella “Cash” Reese
1995	Without Evidence	Jodie Swearingen
	Hackers	Kate “Acid Burn” Libby
1996	Mojave Moon	Eleanor “Elie” Rigby
	Love Is All There Is	Gina Malacici
	Foxfire	Margret “Legs” Sadovsky
1997	True Women (TV)	Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
	George Wallace (TV)	Cornelia Wallace	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movie Nominated – Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
	Playing God	Claire
1998	Gia (TV)	Gia Marie Carangi	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries Nominated – Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
	Hell’s Kitchen	Gloria McNeary
	Playing by Heart	Joan	National Board of Review Award – Breakthrough Performance
	Pushing Tin	Mary Bell
1999	The Bone Collector	Amelia Donaghy
	Girl, Interrupted	Lisa Rowe	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
2000	Gone in Sixty Seconds	Sara “Sway” Wayland
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Lara Croft	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
	Original Sin	Julia Russell
2002	Life or Something Like It	Lanie Kerrigan
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Lara Croft
	Beyond Borders	Sarah Jordan
2004	Taking Lives	Illeana Scott
	Shark Tale	Lola	Voice
	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Francesca “Franky” Cook	People’s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star
	The Fever (TV)	Revolutionary	Cameo
	Alexander	Olympias
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Jane Smith	MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated – People’s Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star Nominated – People’s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star Nominated – People’s Choice Award – Favorite On-Screen Match-Up (with Brad Pitt)
2006	The Good Shepherd	Margaret Russell
2007	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl	Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture
	Beowulf	Grendel’s mother	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
2008	Kung Fu Panda	Master Tigress	Voice
	Wanted	Fox	People’s Choice Award – Favorite Female Action Star Nominated – People’s Choice Award – Favorite Female Movie Star Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment
	Changeling	Christine Collins	Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture
2010	Salt	Evelyn Salt	(in production)

Award for Angelina Jolie

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1998	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	George Wallace	Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movie		Won
	National Board of Review Award	Breakthrough Performance – Female	Playing by Heart	Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Gia	Nominated
1999	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV		Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries		Won
2000	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Girl, Interrupted	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role		Won
	Academy Award	Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role		Won
2004	People’s Choice Award	Favourite Female Action Star	Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow	Won
2008	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	A Mighty Heart	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
2009	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Changeling	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
	BAFTA Award	Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
	Academy Award	Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated

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