Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director most well-known for her sex appeal, edginess and humanitarian work. Her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was one of the roles she received 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 years old. 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. She also appeared in theatre productions as well as modeled for music videos. It was in Hackers (1995) when Jolie was introduced to Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996 and divorced in 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film did not garner a following. Jolie as the role of the governor's wife of Alabama's segregationist governor, received much attention in 1997. She later won a Golden Globe Award. In the HBO movie Gia Jolie was a supermodel who had a drug addiction. She was awarded multiple honors, including a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. She co-starred with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. The following year, she tied the knot with Thornton (divorced in 2003). Jolie played the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. In the following years, she adopted an accent that resembled a British accent and began learning street fighting and kickboxing in order to be able to play the characters in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films failed at the box office however Jolie made a splash in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin disguised as a normal housewife; while working on the film, she became acquainted with Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.