Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director best known for her sexual edginess, sex appeal and humanitarian work. Her part in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was a part she won for the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her childhood in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, she attended Beverly Hills High School. After that, she studied acting at New York University. In addition to appearing in theater productions, she also played the role of a model as well as appearing in music videos.Jolie's first film-related role was in Hackers (1995), during the filming of which she became engaged to her first husband British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996 divorced in 1999). In addition to the other films, the film did not gain a traction. Jolie was the segregationist spouse of Alabama's governor, garnering much attention in 1997. Jolie later won an award, the Golden Globe Award. In the following year, she played an actress who was struggling with addiction issues in the HBO film Gia, a performance that brought her numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and a 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 her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in a string of action movies. She played the wife of an armed carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later took on the British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She played the mother of Alexander in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) and also 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 did poorly in the box office, however Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was successful. Jolie played a character pretending to play a normal householdwife as she worked on the film. Brad Pitt became her partner in the film.