Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actor and director renowned for her sex appeal and edginess as well as for her humanitarian work. Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her childhood, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was an inpatient with mental illness in Girl, interrupted (1999). She was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She after that, she enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied acting at New York University. Jolie was also an actor in theater productions. In later years, she was a model and featured in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced in 1999, divorced). It wasn't well-loved and neither were other films. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor, garnering the attention of many in 1997. Jolie later won an award, the Golden Globe Award. Jolie played the supermodel struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO film Gia in 1999. Her performance was rewarded with numerous honours including a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of 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 starred in a series of action films. She played the wife of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopted a British accent, and mastered street fighting and kickboxing for the main roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She played the mother of Alexander in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) as well as played alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City). Both films disappointed in the box office, however Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was the biggest success. Jolie played a character acting as a normal domestic worker while working on the film. Brad Pitt became her co-star.