Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director most well-known for her sexy appeal, edginess and work in the field of humanitarian aid. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her early years, she moved to Los Angeles, where she played the role of an inpatient with mental illness in Girl, interrupted (1999). After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute She enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She later studied drama at New York University. Alongside acting in theatre productions, she played the role of a model as well as appearing in music videos.Jolie's first film-related part was in Hackers (1995) in the filming process, she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). Similar to several other films, this one did not find an audience. Jolie, who played the role of governor's wife of Alabama's segregationist governor was the subject of much interest in 1997. Later, she won an award called the Golden Globe Award. The following year , she portrayed the role of a model struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO film Gia and it was a role that brought her numerous awards, including an award of a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in Pushing Tin, a comedy featuring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Billy Bob Thornton. Then, in 2003, she got divorced. Jolie played the girlfriend of the carjacker (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. In the following years, she adopted a British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing in order to perform the roles in 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 starred 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 however Jolie had a smash with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film in which she played an assassin disguised as a typical housewife. While working on the film she became acquainted with Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.