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Angelina Jolie is an American actress and director who went by her first name, Angelina Jolie Voight. She was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, and is best known for her sex appeal, edginess, and humanitarian work. She won a Foundation Grant for her supporting job as a psychological patient in Young lady, Interfered (1999).


Life before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 11: Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her childhood in New York. After spending two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she enrolled in Beverly Hills High School. She later concentrated on show at New York College. As well as acting in theater creations, she demonstrated and showed up in music recordings.1


USA's 78th Academy Awards in 2006. A close-up of the enormous Oscar statue at the Kodak Theatre entrance in Los Angeles, California. Jolie's first major role was in the 1995 film Hackers, in which she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; separated 1999). As with a series of subsequent films, the film was unsuccessful in attracting audiences. In 1997, nonetheless, Jolie earned a lot of consideration depicting the spouse of Alabama's segregationist lead representative in the TV film George Wallace, and she later won a Brilliant Globe Grant for her depiction. The next year she played a supermodel battling with illicit drug use in the HBO film Gia, a presentation that procured her various distinctions, including a Brilliant Globe and a Screen Entertainers Society Grant. She starred alongside John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in the comedy Pushing Tin in 1999, and the following year she wed Thornton (divorced 2003).


After her Oscar-winning turn in Young lady, Interfered with, Jolie featured in a progression of activity motion pictures. She played the sweetheart of a carjacker (Nicolas Enclosure) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later took on an English pronunciation and dominated road battling and kickboxing for the lead spots in Lara Croft: Lara Croft and the 2001 film Tomb Raider The Birthplace of Life She starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in the sci-fi thriller Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was released in 2004. In it, she played Alexander the Great's mother. The two movies were film industry frustrations, however Jolie scored a hit with Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she played a professional killer claiming to be a typical housewife; She met Brad Pitt while working on the movie, who later became her partner.


She played the aggrieved wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon) in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006). For her performance as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007), Jolie received praise from critics. In light of a genuine story, the film followed endeavors to safeguard Pearl's significant other, Daniel, who was captured and later killed by Islamic fanatics while revealing in Pakistan for The Money Road Diary. Beowulf (2007) and Wanted (2008) followed it. In Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008), her immersion in the role of a mother whose son is kidnapped and later replaced by a different child earned her another Oscar nomination.

In the action-thriller Salt, which came out in 2010, Jolie played a CIA agent who was accused of spying for Russia. In the comedy The Tourist, she starred alongside Johnny Depp. She went on to play the villainous character in Maleficent (2014). The live-action version of the 1959 Disney animated classic Sleeping Beauty attempted to portray the evil fairy in a more sympathetic light. After that, Jolie appeared in the sequel (2019). She played the mother of Peter Pan and Alice (of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, in the 2020 fantasy-adventure film Come Away. In the activity spine chiller The people Who Wish Me Dead (2021), Jolie depicted a fireman safeguarding a little fellow being pursued by executioners. She also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe action film Eternals in 2021 as the immortal warrior Thena. Additionally, Jolie provided voices for a number of films, including The One and Only Ivan (2020) and the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), as well as its sequels (2011) and (2016).




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Coordinating In 2011 Jolie made her executive and screenwriting debut with the Bosnian-language In the Place that is known for Blood and Honey, a fierce romantic tale set during the Bosnian struggle of the 1990s. The subsequent wartime drama Unbroken was directed by her. The Coen brothers wrote the movie's script, which is based on the true story of an Olympic runner and U.S. Air Force officer who became a Japanese prisoner of war after his plane crashed. By the Sea, a film about a troubled couple in France in the 1970s, which she directed, wrote, and starred in in 2015; the show likewise featured Pitt. After that, Jolie released First They Killed My Father: An adaptation of Loung Ung's memoir, A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2017), tells the story of her childhood under the repressive Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.


Individual life and charitable work

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the front of Individuals magazine with their new little girl, Shiloh

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the front of Individuals magazine with their new little girl, Shiloh

Jolie's own life frequently pulled in as much consideration as her acting. The births of Shiloh (2006) and twins Knox and Vivienne (2008), the couple's biological children, and her relationship with Pitt became tabloid fodder. Jolie and Pitt wedded in 2014, yet after two years Jolie petitioned for legal separation. Her charitable work also attracted attention. She was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2001. She traveled to numerous poverty-stricken nations after that appointment and adopted Maddox and Zahara, two children from Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively. Pitt later embraced the youngsters, and in 2007 the couple took on a kid, Pax, from Vietnam. After discovering mutations in her BRCA1 gene that increase the likelihood of developing breast or ovarian cancer, Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013 that made her the subject of media attention. That year she likewise got the Jean Hersholt Compassionate Honor from the Foundation of Movie Expressions and Sciences.