Angelina Jolie Biography

• Birth Name

  Angelina Jolie

  

• Birth Date

  06/04/1975

• Birthplace

  Los Angeles, California

• Credits

  0 Movies, 3 TV appearances, 12 awards
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• Family

  Brother: James Haven
  born c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student films

  Daughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

  born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; father is Brad Pitt. First pictures of baby Shiloh were sold to People Magazine for a reported sum of $4.1 million.

  Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt
  

  born January 8, 2005; adopted July 2005, from an Ethiopian orphanage at

  

  six months; mother died of AIDS and father is unknown; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006

  Father: Jon Voight
  separated from Jolie's mother when Angelina was one-year-old; estranged from father

  Mother: Marcheline Bertrand
  born c. 1950; part-Iroquois; separated from Jolie's father when Angelina wa

  s one-year-old; died of cancer in 2007

  Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt adopted at seven months from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006

  Son: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
  adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow un

  married couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption

  Husband: Jonny Lee Miller
  British; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored to have dated with Billy Bob Thornton, but after that married with Brad Pitt, meet while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005

• Notes

  "... my daughter [Angelina Jolie] just has an incredible talent. The camera loves her. Of course I've always loved looking at Angie's face; that's the best scenery I can be around. That's my happiness and now it's the happiness of other people as well. Just look at that beautiful face and all the intelligence that it has and all the passio

  n. It's quite extraordinary"---Jon Voight quo

  ted in Time Out New York, January 14-21, 1999.
  "I don't live two lives," she says. "I have the great good fortune of being able to have a fun job. It's a job that allows me to travel and that allows me, somtimes, to get out of myself. So that's my job. But it's not at all my life."---Jolie to Esquire July 2007.
  "I was distressed when this desperate situation was brought to my attention. I hope to encourage other people to make themselves

  aware of this crisis facing the Western Saharan refugees and do what they can to help."---Jolie after donating $100k to the Western Saharan Refugees statement.
  "If I ever have a relationship again, I don't think he'll be an actor. It'll be somebody who can teach me, somebody who's already been inspired in their life to do a lot of things that I haven't even thought of yet, who can make me better as a person."---Jolie quoted to theage.com, April 16, 2004.

  "In March Ms. Jolie married the English actor Jonny Lee Miller ("Trainspotting"), whom she met on the set of 'Hackers'. The wedding, a small civil ceremony attended only by her mother and Mr. Miller's best friend, was a testament to Ms. Jolie's offbeat approach to life. Mr. Miller wore black leather, while the bride donned black rubber pants and a white shirt with the groom's name written in her blood across the back. Why, you ask? 'It's your husband,' she answers with a sly grin. 'You're about to marry him. You can sacrifice a little to make it really special.' [She drew the blood herself, 'very carefully,' she says 'with a clean surgical needle.']"---From The New York Times, August 25, 1996.
  "Mr. Voight and Angelina's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, deliberately gave their two children middle names that would work as last names so they could choose anonymity. 'It's kind of hard for the children of leading actors,' Mr. Voight says. 'If they say, 'Oh, you're Jon Voight's daughter,' then there are some expectations."---From "Following, Ambivalently, in Mom or Dad's Footsteps" by Alexandra Bandon, The New York Times, August 25, 1996.
  "My life belongs to him," Jolie says now. "That thing I used to have when something would go wrong, that place of self-destruction or addiction or craziness, when you have a child you can't afford that and you just don't. When your world falls apart or you're feeling really depressed, you pick yourself up and smile so they don't worry."---Jolie talking about her adopted son Maddox Rolling Stones Magazine July 24, 2003

  "She looks the most beautiful when she's in the field -natural, no makeup, nothing....It doesn't get any better than that."---Wyclef Jean on Jolie, to People magazine, May 8, 2006.
  "There was a time when I was really going to give up on acting, right after 'Foxfire'. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. '[George] Wallace' was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine."---Jolie quoted in GQ, December 1998.
  "When people talk about me they talk about my intensity. Angie has that same intensity."---Jon Voight quoted in Premiere, January 1999
  "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives, shit happens."---Jolie
  Angelina legally changed her last name from Voight to Jolie on September 12, 2002.
  Jolie was named "World's Most Beautiful" by People magazine and with her family (Pitt, Maddox and Zahara) was named "World's Most Beautiful family"
  Jolie was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
  

• Milestones

  (2005) Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
  (2003) Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
  (2004) Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
  Will voice Grendel's Mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf" (lensed 2005) Worked briefly as a professional model
  Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
  (2000) Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
  Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
  (2005) Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
  (2002) Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan

• (1986) At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC (date approximate)
  (1999) Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
  (2007) Cast in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt
  (1993) Co-starred in "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows", a direct-to-video sci-fi actioner
  (1999) Co-starred in "Girl, Interrupted", a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
  

  

  (2004) Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
  (1998) Earned raves for her starring performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO biopic "Gia"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Actress
  

  (1980) Feature film debut, bit role in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out", co-produced and co-written by her father, credited as Angelina Jolie Voight; film not released until 1982
  (1995) First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
  (1998) Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
  (2001) Had title role in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
  (2007) Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
  Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in "Room Service"
  (1976) Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother (date approximate)
  (2006) Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
  (2004) Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the

  World of Tomorrow" starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow

• (2002) Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
  

  (1997) Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress
  (1999) Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in "Pushing Tin", directed by Mike Newell
  Reportedly planned to become a funeral director
  (2003) Returned to her starring role for the sequel "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2 "
  (2004) Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
  (1996) Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
  (2001) Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"