The daughter of an Oscar-winner, actress ANGELINA JOLIE rose to stardom in the 1990s notably after she gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her exotic looks, her tumultuous off-screen life and her humanitarian work with refugees.
Born on June 4, 1975 to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Jolie seemed destined for a career in the arts - like her older brother by two years, director James Haven (Voight). At the age of 11 she begun studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. During her time there she staged numerous productions although she was also flirting with the idea of becoming a funeral director.
Age 16 Jolie struck out on her own by finding work as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles and appearing in music videos for the likes of Meatloaf, the Lemonheads, Lenny Kravitz and The Rolling Stones. Her brother James had pursued his ambition of going to film school, and Jolie gained her first taste of screen acting by starring in no less than five of his student films. But her movie career properly began in 1993, when she starred as Casella "Cash" Reese, alongside Elias Koteas and Jack Palance in Cyborg II: Glass Shadows.
Next came Hackers, where she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller. The two got married in 1995 but divorced four years later. In 1998 Angelina Jolie achieved a major critical success, starring in the TV film Gia, the true story of 1970-80s supermodel Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS. She won Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Satmifie awards and was nominated for an Emmy.
As an acclaimed actress the offers for more challenging roles came flooding in. In 1999 she co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton (her second husband) in the comedy Pushing Tin and in the same year she tackled a headline role in The Bone Collector alongside Denzel Washington. Jolie finally rounded out the year by landing the much sought after co-starring role of the disturbed Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted. Based on author Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Jolie's stellar performance as the sociopathic inmate netted her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
Jolie sealed her international fame by playing the video game heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider in 2001. The film also marked her first adult collaboration with her father, Jon Voight, who played her character's father in the film. Several of her subsequent films, such as Life or Something Like It, Alexander and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow were box-office disappointments, although Jolie herself usually received good notices.
Having reached a peak in her career, Jolie then decided to pursue her humanitarian interests and began to become more and more involved in campaigns to help people in the Third World. In 2001, she adopted a Cambodian child named Maddox, and was made a Good Will Ambassador for the United States. She took her role very seriously and took time out from her acting career to visit Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Tanzania and the Western Sahara.
Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office. She also provided the voice of Lola in the successful animated film Shark Tale.
Jolie's profile as both a movie star and public figure rose to even more epic proportions when she co-starred with Brad Pitt in the Doug Liman-helmed actioner Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Whatever excitement the movie generated was overshadowed by the real-life drama of Pitt leaving his wife Jennifer Aniston to move in with Jolie. Although rumours ran rife, Jolie and Pitt remained silent about their alleged affair, and did not go public about their involvement until a full twelve months later. By this time, Pitt was fully embroiled in a high-profile Hollywood divorce.
In 2005, Jolie adopted Zaharah Marley, a little Ethiopian girl as a sister for Maddox, and to her delight, Pitt decided to adopt both children as his own. And in May 2006, Jolie also gave birth to her own child by Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel, who was born in Namibia while the couple were over in Africa. In March 2007, Jolie added a new member to her family. She adopted a three-year-old boy from a Vietnamese orphanage. Her son is named Pax Thien.
Returning to the big screen in 2008, Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action movie Wanted, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide. Jolie next appeared in the Clint Eastwood-directed thriller, Changeling, in which she played Christine Collins, a mother whose son reappears after his kidnapping. Collins is sure the returned boy is not the one to which she gave birth, and her fight reveals a police conspiracy. In 2009, Jolie received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for the role.
Jolie gave birth to twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008, in a seaside hospital in southern France. The rights for the first images of the twins were sold to People and Hello! magazines for $14 million, all of which was donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the charity she'd set up with Brad Pitt to help in "humanitarian crises throughout the world." She would furthermore be reunited with her father after a 6 year split.
Jolie next appeared as the eponymous character in the 2010 thriller Salt, her first film in two years. A surprising box office hit during a busy summer, Salt was notable for being originally written for a male lead, which obviously was changed when Jolie became interested in the project. Later that year, she co-starred with Johnny Depp in The Tourist, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Despite a mostly negative critical reception, the film grossed $268 million worldwide, and earned surprising Golden Globe nominations for both Jolie and Depp. |
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