Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director best known for her sexy appeal, edginess and humanitarian work. She 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 being at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute two years, she then took up a place at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied drama at New York University. Also, she was an actor in theater productions. Later, she was a model and featured in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced 1999).). The film failed to find an audience, just as did a series of subsequent movies. In 1997, however Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor the film George Wallace, and she was later awarded a Golden Globe Award for her performance. In the HBO film Gia in which she was a model who suffered from drug addiction. Jolie was awarded a variety of honors as well as an award of the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Following her Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie played in Pushing Tin, a comedy featuring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Billy Bob Thornton. In 2003, she was divorced. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) Jolie played Nicole Cage's lover. She later adopted the British accent and learned the art of street fighting and kickboxing, and was able to play the title roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). She portrayed Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) and was in the film with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City). Both films did poorly at the box office, however Jolie was successful with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She played a housewife pretending to be an assassin. While working on the film, she came across Brad Pitt who became her partner.