Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director, famous for her sexy appeal, edginess and her humanitarian work. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her growing up, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she was the character of a mental patient in Girl, interrupted (1999). She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She was then accepted into Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. She also performed in theater productions and modelled for music videos. It was in Hackers (1995) when Jolie got to know Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married 1996; divorcing 1999). As with several subsequent films, this one did not find an audience. In 1997, however, Jolie gained a lot of notice for her performance as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the TV film George Wallace, and she later was awarded an award called the Golden Globe Award for her performance. In the HBO film Gia the actress played a supermodel suffering from drug addiction. The actress was awarded numerous honors as well as an award of the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. After her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie made an appearance in Pushing Tin, a comedy featuring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Billy Bob Thornton. Then, in 2003, she got divorced. She played the wife of an armed carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later changed her accent to an accent that resembled a British accent and mastered the art of street fighting and kickboxing for the roles of the title in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). Jolie played Alexander's mom in Oliver Stone's Alexander in 2004 and also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow which is a suspense film that is set in the 1930s in New York City. Both films were disappointing at the box office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was the biggest success. Jolie played a character acting as a normal domestic worker while working on the movie. Brad Pitt became her partner in the film.