Angelina Jolie
Name: Angelina Jolie
Birth date: 4 of June 1975 (46 y.o.)
People who were born the same day: 2
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Height: 169 ft
Weight: 45 lb
Career: actress, movie director, humanitarian
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Angelina Jolie’s biography
Angelina Jolie’s childhood
Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles on 4 June 1975. Her father is actor Jon Voight, her mother was Marcheline Bertrand, an actress of French descent.
Angelina Jolie’s father often cheated on her mother, therefor the parents separated a year after her birth, but the divorcement was officially issued only in 1978. Marcheline Bertrand, who gave up her dream of becoming a great actress focused on raising Angelina and her brother James Haven and took the children to New York.
When she was 14 Angelina Jolie started modeling in American cities, also in England. Years later the actress admitted that modeling career didn’t work out the right away which caused her the strongest psycho-emotional disorder.
In 1989 she met her first young man, whom she lived with for two years at her mother’s house. The reason for the breakup was her interest in knives and self-harm, her body was full of scars. At 16 she was admitted to hospital cutting herself the carotid artery. During those years Angelina Jolie got to know many of the known drugs and led the freeway of life. She slept with men as well as with women. At the same age, she began hating her father, which prevented them from communicating.
Angelina Jolie’s career
In 1993 Jolie started acting in cinema. The picture «Cyborg 2» was released where the actress was given a notable role of a cyborg in love. The job didn’t bring the actress to fame and she was quite dissatisfied with the result.
Two years later she played in her first large project, the «Hackers» film where her partner was Jonny Lee Miller who later became her husband. In 1997 the picture «Playing God» was released where she was partnered by Timothy Hutton and David Duchovny.
Jolie chose herself the most versatile roles: the wife of the bedridden on health governor of Alabama in the picture «George Wallace» and a mannequin, drug addict deceased from AIDS in «Gia», a policewoman in «The Bone Collector» and a grumpy wife in the «Pushing Tin» comedy-drama, a hijacker in «Gone in 60 Seconds» and a riotous patient in a psychiatric clinic in the «Girl, Interrupted» drama film and so on.
Just the last film made Angelina Jolie recognizable. She received the «Oscar» for the best-supporting actress and «Golden Globe» in the same nomination for her job. During the Academy Awards ceremony, she confessed to her brother’s love. Talks immediately started on their incestuous relations, which they publicly refuted but a year later.
After the cinematographic success, the actress was showered with offers to take part in filming very successful for her career. In 2001 she was chosen for the leading role for the screening of the first part of «Lara Croft: Tomb Raider». The film collected 270 million dollars in the world hire but unfortunately, the following pictures about the tomb raider failed.
Most popular Angelina Jolie became after playing in the «Mr. & Mrs. Smith» released in 2005. The picture collected more than 480 million dollars in the world hire. The film where Jolie played alongside Brad Pitt put a start to their lasting romantic union.
In 2006 the actress played in three more pictures which however never led the ratings: «The Good Shepherd» directed by Robert De Niro and «Beowulf» with Anthony Hopkins in the leading role.
Angelina Jolie’s personal life
For example, her left shoulder is covered by the geographical coordinates of the places of birth of all of her children including the adopted, the «M» in her palm is in memory of her deceased mother. She also has quotations by sages on her skin and even the date of birth of Churchill. The exact amount of tattoos is unknown.
At the age of 20, the actress married her partner in the «Hackers» – British actor Jonny Lee Miller. They got married in 1996 but quickly fled: he began living in England and Jolie in the USA. The divorcement was issued only in 1999. Angelina Jolie and Miller are still communicating well though they call their marriage a mistake of a young age.
However at the time when Angelina Jolie was yet with her husband information had spread through the press about her relationship with another actor, her partner in the film of 1996 «Playing God» Timothy Hutton. Her sexual affairs with actress Jenny Shimizu who partnered her in the «Foxfire» refer to the same period.
Angelina Jolie’s second husband was Billy Bob Thornton. They got married in 2000 but the marriage turned out not a happy one just as the previous, the actors got divorced three years later. Both had to remove tattoos of the partner’s names which they had done before the marriage.
Angelina Jolie’s and Brad Pitt’s love story
In 2007 the stellar couple adopted a Vietnamese boy called Pax Thien.
Biography Online
Angelina Jolie Biography
Angelina Jolie (b. 4 June 1975 – ) is an Oscar-winning actress, movie director, humanitarian and global celebrity. She rose to fame through her title role in the film “Lara Croft”. In recent years, Jolie has moved into film production, acting as director, writer and producer. She has six children, three of whom are adopted. She serves in a capacity as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR.
Angelina was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand were actors, and this was a significant influence on her early life. When she was eleven, she enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and performed in several theatre productions. This early training was important to her philosophy of acting. A major component of this acting school is to stay in part for the duration of the filming – taking on the characteristics of her characters.
She later studied film studies at New York University. Aged 16, she temporarily tried modelling and appeared in some music videos. However, this career did not take off. Ironically, for someone who would later be cited as the world’s ‘most beautiful women’, Angelina had difficult periods in her childhood. She recounts being picked on by other children for being very thin and wearing glasses.
More seriously, she had a difficult relationship with her father, Jon Voight. In her late teens, and early 20s she also suffered from depression and periods of self-harm. Looking back, she observed that she was
“just being a young girl who was experimental, bold and a bit nutty… I was absolutely self-destructive. I think a lot of young people in this business lose their way. You don’t know what is of value. You don’t know where you are. And you know something’s wrong, because it isn’t life as it actually is. It’s like living in some warped reality.” (Source: USA Today)
Angelina credits her first adopted daughter for helping her to pull out of depression and a tendency to self-harm. Jolie recounts then when she saw her adopted daughter she knew she would have to live more responsibly for her benefit. “I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again.”
In her teens, her acting career never really took off because her demeanour was often considered too ‘dark’ and ‘punkish.’
In 1993, she began her professional film career with her first major part in the sci-fi film ‘Cyborg 2’. Several roles in smaller films followed with Jolie receiving critical praise, though the films did not go on to be major successes.
In 1997, she received her first Golden Globe Award for her performance in ‘George Wallace’ (1997). She played the second wife of Alabama segregationist governor – George Wallace.
In 1998, she starred in a biopic about Gia Carangi, a supermodel who struggled to deal with her fame and success – dying prematurely from AIDS as result of sharing drug needles. Jolie was praised for her performance; however, to perform the character she adopted ‘method acting’ and took on similar characteristics to the role she was playing. As a result, she became difficult to deal with, especially as there were some parallels with Jolie’s own struggles with depression.
In 1999, she starred alongside Denzel Washington in the successful film ‘The Bone Collector’ (1999). Also in that year, she played a woman who spent time in a psychiatric hospital in ‘Girl Interrupted’ (1999). Her performance won her the triple crown of Golden Globe Award, the SAG and Academy Award for the best leading actress. Jolie was gaining a reputation for producing strong acting performances, and she became increasingly in demand. Her growing acting profile also led to increased media interest, especially because of her physical beauty and colourful life.
In 2000, she was chosen to play the lead role in ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’. This was by far her most successful film commercially, becoming one of biggest grossing films of the year. The role involved considerable physical training to play the adventurous and athletic character. (often said to be a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones.
Humanitarian work
Filming ‘Lara Croft’ in Cambodia, caused Jolie to become more interested in humanitarian activities. She became an active participant in her role as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has travelled extensively to areas such as Darfur, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. In 2012, she was appointed Special Envoy to High Commissioner Antonia Guterres. Jolie says she puts a third of her salary into savings, a third for living expenses and gives the final third to charity.
Speaking of her experience in visiting Afghanistan, she remarks:
“Behind the labels — refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers — are people with the same hopes, fears, sorrow and happiness as anyone. Their life experiences are often deeply tragic but also uplifting. To survive what many Afghan families have experienced over three decades is testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. This shines through in their generosity, humour, and quiet determination to offer their children a better future.”
Jolie has become an advocate for children’s education and protecting the interests of child immigrants and other vulnerable children. She has also worked with the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict and has helped to establish education policies. In January 2011, she established the Jolie Legal Fellowship a network of lawyers who are sponsored to advocate for human rights in developing countries. After she had devoted more time to humanitarian work, her public profile changed from an image of a ‘wild child’ to a more positive image.
In 2004, Jolie began filming Mr & Mrs Smith (2005) with Brad Pitt. The film was noted for its on-screen chemistry between Jolie and Pitt (who was at the time married to Jennifer Aniston) Pitt later divorced Aniston and in 2014 the couple married. However, in 2016, the couple separated.
Jolie has become one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Her films are regularly commercial and critical successes. With Jolie’s performances often being the stand out performance.
Successful films include:
In 2007, she began her directing career with a documentary ‘A Place in Time’ (2007). Her full feature debut was a film ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ (2011) a love story set in the Yugoslav civil war between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner of war. She used only actors from the former Yugoslavia, and the film was a critical success.
In 2014, she produced her second film ‘Unbroken’ about a World War II hero Louis Zamperini. Jolie admits she has a great interest in war movies, but was also attracted to tell this remarkable story of heroism and personal strength because of the personal qualities of Zamperini.
“I wanted them to be reminded of that thing inside of all of us, that rises up against these obstacles. That’s what Louie preached, to help in those dark hours to remember.” NY Times
In 2013, she had a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer. She wrote about her experience and choices she made, which she wrote about in a New York op-ed. Her doctors told her that her genes left her an 87% chance of developing breast cancer. Her mother, Marcheline died from Ovarian cancer. Jolie explained her decision to take preventative action.
“Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.”
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Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “Biography of Angelina Jolie”, Oxford, www.biographyonline.net, 23 January 2015. Updated 11th February 2017.
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