Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, director, and producer best known for her sexual appeal as also her humanitarian work. The role she played in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was the part she won in the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her growing up in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old. After having attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute two years later, she was enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. New York University later taught her drama. She also acted in theatre productions and modelled for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) when Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married 1996; divorcing 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film did not find an audience. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor. She received the attention of many in 1997. The actress later won an award, the Golden Globe Award. She played the role of a supermodel who struggles with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. The performance won her many awards, including an award of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Following her Oscar-winning performance Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in Pushing Tin, a comedy with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Billy Bob Thornton. Then, in 2003, she divorced. She played the girlfriend of carjackers (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later changed her accent to an accent that resembled a British accent and was able to master street fighting and kickboxing to play the roles of the title in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). The actress played Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) as well as appeared alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set 1930s New York City). Both films were box-office failures however Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin pretending to be a typical housewife. While working on the film she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.