Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director, popular for her sex appeal, edginess, and humanitarian work. Jolie was awarded an Academy Award for her supporting character as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her childhood in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute She enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied drama at New York University. She also appeared in theatre productions and modeled for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) when Jolie got to know Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996, divorced in 1999). As with several subsequent films, the film did not garner a following. Jolie was the segregationist spouse of Alabama's governor, attracting the attention of many in 1997. She later received an award, the Golden Globe Award. Jolie played a supermodel who struggles with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. Her performance was rewarded with many awards, including an award of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and in the year following she got married to Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in a series of action movies. Jolie was the carjacker's wife (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Later, she adopted a British accent and began learning street fighting and kickboxing to play the role of Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. She played the role of 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 failed at the box office, but Jolie did well in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She played a woman who pretended to play an assassin. While working on the film she met Brad Pitt who became her co-star.