Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina
Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director, famous for her sexual
edginess, sex appeal, and 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 an inpatient with mental illness in Girl, interrupted
(1999). She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two
years, and then enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. Then she went on to
study acting at New York University. In addition to acting in theater
productions, she also performed as a model and in music videos.Jolie's first
big film performance was in Hackers (1995) in the filming of which she got
married to her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996;
divorced 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film did not attract a
crowd. Jolie was the segregationist spouse of Alabama's governor. She received
lots of attention in 1997. She later received a Golden Globe Award. She played
the role of an actress who is struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO
film Gia in 1999. This performance earned her numerous honours including the
Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she appeared in the
comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following
year , she was married to Billy Bob Thornton (divorced 2003).After the
Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action
films. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)), she played the role of Nicole Cage's
girlfriend. She later adopted a British accent and learned street fighting and
kickboxing for the role of the title in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara
Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). Jolie played Alexander's mother
in Oliver stone's Alexander in 2004 and also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth
paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow, a thriller about science fiction
set in 1930s New York City. Both films failed at box office, but Jolie had a
great time in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She was a housewife who pretends
to play an assassin. While making the film, she came across Brad Pitt who
became her partner.
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