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 sexual edginess and sex appeal and also for her charitable work. She was awarded an Academy Award for her supporting part as a mentally ill patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her early years in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. After being at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years ago, she later enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied acting at New York University. In addition to acting in theatre productions, she modeled and appeared in music videos.Jolie's first major movie role was in Hackers (1995) and during the filming of which she became engaged to her first husband British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996 divorced in 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film could not garner a following. Jolie, who played the role of governor's wife of Alabama's segregationist governor and was the focus of attention in 1997. In the following year, she received an award called the Golden Globe Award. In the HBO film Gia in which she was a supermodel who had a drug addiction. She was awarded multiple honors as well as a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she starred in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and that same year, she got married Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action movies. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) she played the role of Nicole Cage's lover. She later took on the British accent and learned kickboxing and street fighting to play the title roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander as well as starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office disappointments, but Jolie made a splash with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin disguised as an ordinary housewife. While working on the film she came across Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.