Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born on June 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actor and director renowned for her sex appeal and edginess as well as her charitable work. Her part in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was the part she won for the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her childhood in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She after that, she enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. Apart from acting in theatre productions, she was a model and featured in music videos.Jolie's first major movie role was in Hackers (1995) which was the filming process, she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film was not able to attract an audience, as did a series of subsequent movies. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor. She received lots of attention in 1997. Jolie later won a Golden Globe Award. She played the role of an actress who is struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. This role earned her many awards, including an award of the 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 the Oscar-winning turn in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie was a part of a number of action films. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) she played the role of Nicole Cage's lover. She later changed her accent to 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). In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also appeared alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in the 1930s of New York City. Both films failed at the box office however Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) in which she played an assassin posing as a typical housewife. While working on the film, she came across Brad Pitt, who became her partner.