American actress, filmmaker, and activist Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975 as Angelina Jolie Voight. She has received various honors, such as an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, and has frequently been referred to as Hollywood's highest-paid actress.
When she was a young child, Jolie appeared on screen with her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). A decade later, her film career officially got underway with the low-budget effort Cyborg 2 (1993), which was quickly followed by her first significant leading part in Hackers (1995). Her performances in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also acted in the historical television movies George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998). She became a well-known Hollywood actress after playing the lead in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the video game that bears her name. She continued to work as an action star in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), and The Tourist (2010). She also received praise for her work in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), the latter of which led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The fantasy film Maleficent (2014), its 2019 follow-up, and the superhero movie Eternals (2021) are among of her biggest box office hits. Since 2008, she has voiced a character in the animated television series Kung Fu Panda. In addition, Jolie wrote and directed the war dramas First They Killed My Father (2017), Unbroken (2014), and In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).
In recognition of her humanitarian work, Jolie has won numerous awards, including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the designation of honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. She advocates for a number of issues, such as women's rights, education, and conservation, but she is most known for her work as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a post she maintained until 2022. Jolie has traveled to numerous countries, including Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and Ukraine, on more than a dozen field missions to refugee camps and war zones.
In the American entertainment industry, Jolie has been referred to as one of the most powerful and influential public figures. Several media sites have referred to her as the most beautiful woman in the world. Her private life, including her love affairs, marriages, and health, have received a lot of media attention. Actors Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton, and Brad Pitt are all ex-spouses of hers. Three of the six children she shares with Pitt were adopted internationally.
Actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand welcomed Angelina Jolie Voight into the world at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She is also the niece of geologist and volcanologist Barry Voight, singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and actor James Haven. Maximilian Schell and Jacqueline Bisset, both actors, are her godparents. While her mother was of French-Canadian origin, Jolie's father is of German and Slovak descent. Jolie has stated that she is partially Indigenous (Iroquois).
She and her brother moved in with their mother when her parents divorced in 1976; the mother had given up acting in order to concentrate on raising her children. Despite not forcing Jolie to attend church, her mother reared her as a Catholic. Though she had a small role in Voight's Lookin' to Get Out (1982) at age seven, she frequently watched movies with her mother as a child, which sparked her interest in acting more than her father's successful profession. The family was relocated to Palisades, New York, when Jolie was six years old by Bertrand and her live-in partner, director Bill Day; they later moved back to Los Angeles. Jolie then made the decision to pursue acting and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she received two years of training and participated in a number of theatrical performances.
Because her mother made less money than some of the wealthy families in the neighborhood, Jolie felt outcast among the other students at Beverly Hills High School. Other pupils made fun of her because she was so skinny and because she had glasses and braces. Her early modeling endeavors, which her mother insisted she pursue, were unsuccessful. She later changed schools to Moreno High School, an alternative school, where she adopted the persona of a "punk outsider," dressing in all-black, going out moshing, and engaging in knife play with her live-in partner. She quit her acting studies and pursued her dream of becoming a funeral director by enrolling in online courses to learn embalming. In 2004, Jolie reflected on this time by saying, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos." At age 16, when the relationship had ended, Jolie graduated from high school, rented her own apartment, and then returned to theatrical studies.
Jolie struggled with insomnia, an eating disorder, and started using drugs when she was a teenager because she found it difficult to emotionally connect with others. She later reflected, "For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me." She also used drugs and by the time she was 20, had tried "just about every drug possible," particularly heroin. Jolie experienced depressive episodes and made suicide plans twice, once when she was 19 and again when she was 22, when she tried to hire a hitman to kill her. She had a nervous breakdown when she was 24 and was subsequently committed for 72 hours to the psychiatric ward at UCLA Medical Center. Jolie found stability in her life two years after adopting her first child, saying subsequently, "I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again."
Since Voight left the family when his daughter was less than a year old, Jolie and her father have had a strained, dysfunctional relationship that has lasted her entire life. She claims that after that, their time together was infrequent and frequently performed in front of the media. When they shared a scene in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), they made up, but things soon fell apart once more. On September 12, 2002, the court allowed Jolie's request to have her middle name, which she had long used as a stage name, replace her surname, Voight. Then, after her mother and brother cut ties with him, Voight made their breakup public during an interview on Access Hollywood, in which he claimed Jolie had "serious mental problems." After six and a half years of silence, they started to communicate again after Bertrand's ovarian cancer death on January 27, 2007, and three years later they made their reconciliation public.
Career
Initial works (1991–1997)
Jolie made the decision to pursue acting professionally when she was 16 years old, but initially struggled to get roles because of what she perceived as her "too dark" demeanor. She also appeared in several music videos, including those for Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads' "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf As she became aware of her father's strategy of mimicking others by observing them, she started to learn from him. During this period, their relationship was less tense as Jolie came to terms with the fact that they were both "drama queens."
Jolie started her professional acting career in 1993 when she portrayed a nearly human robot created for corporate espionage and assassination in the science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2. She didn't try out again for a role for a year because she was so upset with the movie. She had a supporting role in the independent movie Without Evidence in 1995 before starring in her first big-budget movie, Hackers. Hackers didn't turn a profit at the box office but gained a cult following after being released on video, according to New York Times critic Janet Maslin, who noted that Jolie's character "stands out... because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top." The part in Hackers is regarded as Jolie's breakthrough performance.
Following her role as Juliet in the contemporary version Love Is All There Is (1996), Jolie starred in the road movie Mojave Moon. She portrayed Legs in Foxfire (1996), a drifter who rallies four adolescent girls against a teacher who had assaulted them sexually. "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character," the Los Angeles Times' Jack Mathews said of Jolie's portrayal. "But Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."
Jolie and David Duchovny starred in the Los Angeles underworld-themed thriller Playing God in 1997. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that Jolie "finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a mobster's] girlfriend, and maybe she is." Her subsequent role as a frontierswoman in the CBS miniseries True Women (1997) was even less well received; Robert Strauss of The Philadelphia Inquirer called her "horrid, a fourth-rate Scarlett O'Hara" who relie
Gaining popularity (1998–2000)
Following her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal in TNT's George Wallace (1997), which was based on the biography of the segregationist Alabama Governor and presidential contender George Wallace, played by Gary Sinise, Jolie's professional prospects started to improve. Jolie played Cornelia, Wallace's second wife, and Lee Winfrey of The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed her performance as the movie's high point. The Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film went to George Wallace, which also earned favorable reviews from critics. For her performance, Jolie was also nominated for an Emmy.
In HBO's Gia (1998), Jolie portrayed supermodel Gia Carangi. The movie details how Carangi's heroin addiction destroyed her life and career, as well as how she deteriorated and passed away from AIDS in the middle of the 1980s. For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Vanessa Vance of Reel.com noted retrospectively, "Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." Her first Screen Actors Guild Award was also given to her.
In many of her early movies, Jolie preferred to remain in character between scenes, according to Lee Strasberg's method acting. She informed her husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would be unable to contact him during the filming of Gia: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'" After the production of Gia was completed, she briefly gave up acting because she felt she had "nothing else to give." She then moved to New York and enrolled in night classes at New York University to study directing and screenwriting. Jolie continued her career after receiving encouragement from her Golden Globe Award for George Wallace and the favorable reviews of Gia.
Jolie made her feature debut in the previously released gangster movie Hell's Kitchen (1998), and she then appeared in Playing by Heart (1998) alongside Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, and Ryan Phillippe. Jolie was singled out for praise in the reviews, earning the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review. Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."
Alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett, Jolie featured in the comedy-drama Pushing Tin in 1999. The Washington Post's Desson Howe described Jolie's role as Thornton's seductive wife as "a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings, and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." Jolie later starred alongside Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), which won the best picture Oscar. Despite having a $151.5 million global box office haul, the movie received negative reviews. The Detroit Free Press' Terry Lawson came to the conclusion that "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."
In the 1999 film adaption of Susanna Kaysen's autobiography, Girl, Interrupted, Jolie played Lisa, a psychopathic prisoner in a mental institution. In 2000, she received three Golden Globe nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote: "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation."
In 2000, Jolie starred in Gone in 60 Seconds, her first summer blockbuster, which went on to become her highest-grossing movie to that moment, taking in $237.2 million abroad. Jolie later clarified that the movie had been a welcome relief after her emotionally taxing role in Girl, Interrupted; The Washington Post writer Stephen Hunter criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."
(2001–2004) Recognition on a global scale
Jolie had received recognition for her skills and performances but had struggled to find movies that would appeal to a broad audience until 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She had to develop an English accent and undertake intense martial arts training in order to portray the archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft in the movie adaptation of the well-known Tomb Raider video games. The movie received mostly negative reviews, but Jolie's physical performance was generally praised; Newsday's John Anderson said, "Jolie makes the title character a virtual icon of female competence and coolth." The movie was a worldwide success, grossing $274.7 million, and it established her as a leading female action actress.
Jolie then played Antonio Banderas' mail-order wife in Original Sin (2001), the beginning of a succession of movies that both reviewers and viewers found to be disappointing. Jolie's choice to follow up her Oscar-winning performance with the romantic comedy Life or Something Like It (2002), though similarly unsuccessful, was questioned by New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell, who called it "soft-core nonsense." Allen Barra of Salon magazine thought of her ambitious newscaster character as an unusual attempt to play a traditional women's role, saying that her performance "doesn't get off the ground until a scene where she goes punk and leads a group of striking bus workers in singing 'Satisfaction'". Jolie continued to be in demand as an actor despite her lack of box office success; in 2002, she became one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, earning $10–15 million per movie for the following five years.
In the less successful sequel, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), which earned $156.5 million at the international movie office, Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft. She also appeared in the "Did My Time" music video by Korn, which was used to advertise the follow-up. In her subsequent movie, Beyond Borders (2003), she played a socialite who teams up with Clive Owen's character, an aid worker. Despite being a commercial failure, the movie represents the first of several humanitarian awareness-raising endeavors Jolie has undertaken. The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan acknowledged Jolie's talent for "bringing electricity and believability to roles," but said that "the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her." Beyond Borders received negative reviews.
Jolie made four film appearances in 2004. She made her acting debut in the suspense film Taking Lives as an FBI profiler called in to assist Montreal police in their search for a serial killer. Jolie made a brief appearance as a fighter pilot in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure shot entirely with actors in front of a bluescreen, and voiced her first family movie, the DreamWorks animation Shark Tale. The movie received mixed reviews; The Hollywood Reporter critic Kirk Honeycutt concluded, "Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." Oliver Stone's Alexander, a biopic of Alexander the Great, in which she played the supporting character of Queen Olympias, received negative reviews, mainly because of her Slavic accent. The movie did poorly at the box office in North America, which Stone ascribed to the way Alexander's bisexuality was portrayed, but it did well elsewhere, earning $167.3 million.
Seasoned Performer (2005–2010)
With the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which she costarred with Brad Pitt as a bored married couple who discover they are both secret assassins, Jolie returned to significant box office success in 2005. While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy, and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry, according to Star Tribune critic Colin Covert. With box office receipts of $478.2 million worldwide, Mr. & Mrs. Smith was the seventh-highest grossing picture of the year and remained Jolie's highest-grossing live-action film for the following decade.
In the drama A Mighty Heart (2007), Jolie played Mariane Pearl after appearing in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006) as the CIA officer's neglected wife in a supporting part. The film, which is based on Pearl's memoir of the same name, tells the story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, being abducted and killed in Pakistan. Jolie was cast in the part despite the multiracial Pearl personally selecting her for it, which sparked racial controversy and claims of blackface. She garnered nods for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the ensuing performance, which was hailed as "well-measured and moving" and acted "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent." Jolie also portrayed Grendel's mother in the motion-captured 2007 epic Beowulf. The movie did well both critically and financially, bringing in $196.4 million worldwide.
Jolie had the highest salary of any actress in 2008, at $15–$20 million each movie. Jolie was able to command up to $20 million plus a portion of the box office, while other actresses had to take pay concessions at the time. She co-starred in the 2008 action movie Wanted with James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. The movie was a worldwide hit, grossing $341.4 million. The New York Times' Manohla Dargis wrote that Jolie was "perfectly cast as a super-scary, seemingly amoral assassin," noting that "she cuts the kind of disciplinarian figure who can bring boys of all ages to their knees or, at least, into their theater seats." The movie received overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Jolie then played the title role in Clint Eastwood's 2008 movie Changeling. The story of Christine Collins, who is reunited with her kidnapped son in 1928 Los Angeles, only to discover the boy is a fake, is based in part on the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. She was nominated for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Actress. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips wrote, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril." Jolie also provided the voice of Tigress in the DreamWorks animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008), the first installment of a successful family franchise. She then returned in the follow-up films Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).
Jolie acted in less movies after her mother passed away in 2007. She subsequently said that her mother's desire to act was what inspired her to become an actress. In the 2010 thriller Salt, her first movie in two years, she played a CIA agent who flees after being accused of being a KGB sleeper agent. Agent Salt, who was originally intended to be a male character and was set to play alongside Tom Cruise, suffered a gender change after a Columbia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the part. With $293.5 million in revenue, Salt achieved success on a global scale. Reviews for the movie were overwhelmingly favorable, praising Jolie's performance in particular. As William Thomas, an Empire writer, put it, "When it comes to selling incredible, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in the action business."
Jolie and Johnny Depp co-starred in the suspenseful film The Tourist (2010). The movie received negative reviews. Despite the film's commercial failure in the US, Roger Ebert defended Jolie's portrayal, saying that she "does her darndest" and "plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality." The movie was a success at the overseas box office, solidifying Jolie's attraction to viewers throughout the world. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance, which raised the question of whether it had been done so only to guarantee her high-profile attendance at the ceremony.
(2011–2017) Extension to directing
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner set during the 1992–1995 Bosnian War, marked Jolie's feature directorial debut after she directed the documentary A Place in Time (2007), which was distributed by the National Education Association. After making two trips to Bosnia and Herzegovina in her capacity as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, she came up with the idea for the movie to refocus attention on the survivors. She only worked with actors from the former Yugoslavia, such as Goran Kosti and Zana Marjanovi, and included their wartime memories into her script to ensure authenticity. The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy said of Jolie's work: "Jolie deserves significant credit for creating such a powerfully oppressive atmosphere and staging the ghastly events so credibly, even if it is these very strengths that will make people not want to watch what's onscreen." The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Jolie was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo for her work in bringing attention to the conflict there.
Jolie returned to the big screen in 2014 with Maleficent, a live-action remake of Disney's 1959 animated feature Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent received mixed reviews but was singled out for praise for Angelina Jolie's portrayal of the title character; The Hollywood Reporter critic Sherri Linden called Jolie the "heart and soul" of the movie and said she "doesn't chew the estimable scenery in Maleficent—she infuses it, wielding a magnetic and effortless power." In its opening weekend, Maleficent made close to $70 million in the United States and over $100 million abroad, becoming The movie eventually made $757.8 million globally, ranking as the fourth-highest-grossing movie of the year and becoming Angelina Jolie's highest-grossing movie ever.
Unbroken (2014), a movie about Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), a former Olympic track star and World War II soldier who survived an aircraft crash and spent two years in a Japanese POW camp, was Jolie's second project as a filmmaker. Under her Jolie Pas imprint, she also worked as a producer. The Coen brothers wrote the screenplay for the movie, which was directed by Jack O'Connell and was based on Laura Hillenbrand's biography of the same name. Unbroken was initially given a favorable response and was anticipated to compete for Best Picture and Best Director, but it ultimately earned mixed reviews and received minimal award recognition, despite being named one of the year's top films by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Unbroken was financially successful at the global box office, with Variety magazine's Justin Chang praising the movie's "impeccable craftsmanship and sober restraint" but calling it "an extraordinary story told in dutiful, unexceptional terms."
The marital drama By the Sea (2015) was Jolie's subsequent film as a director, and it was the first time she and Brad Pitt had worked together since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The movie was a profoundly personal endeavor for Jolie, who drew inspiration from her own mother's life for her screenplay. Critics, however, derided it as a "vanity project" and included it in their criticism of the broader response. By the Sea is dazzlingly beautiful, as are its stars, but peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments, noted Stephanie Merry in a piece for The Washington Post. Despite starring two of Hollywood's top actors, the movie only had a limited release.
Jolie continued to produce few films since she favored to focus on her charitable endeavors. She once more had the chance to merge the two passions when filming First They Killed My Father (2017), a drama set during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia. She co-wrote the screenplay for the movie with her longtime friend Loung Ung, whose memoirs on the regime's child labor camps served as its inspiration, in addition to directing it. The movie, which was produced specifically for Netflix with a primary focus on the Cambodian market, made use of an entirely Khmer cast and script. Rafer Guzmán of Newsday praised Jolie for "convincingly depicting the illogical hell of the Khmer Rouge era" and called her a "skilled and sensitive filmmaker". It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Various critical reactions (from 2019 onward)
Jolie returned to the character of Maleficent in the 2019 Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which garnered negative reviews from critics but had a $490 million worldwide box office haul. In the fantasy film Come Away the following year, she co-starred with David Oyelowo as the bereaved parents of Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland. In Taylor Sheridan's action movie Those Who Wish Me Dead, Jolie played a smokejumper. In May 2021, the movie was released, and it received average reviews. Jolie's "bare-knuckled performance... easily outclasses the film that contains it," according to Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent. Jolie then portrayed Thena, a warrior suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, in the superhero movie Eternals from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie, which was released in November 2021, had varying reactions from critics and viewers. The "touching naivete" in Jolie's performance was emphasized by Ann Hornaday in her review of the movie for The Washington Post.
The next project for Jolie is a cinematic adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's book Without Blood, which she also directed, scripted, and produced. Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir are its stars. She will play Maria Callas in Pablo Larran's Maria, a biographical movie about the opera diva. She has signed on to produce and appear in the James Scott novel-to-film adaption thriller The Kept.
Philanthropic Work
While filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in a war-torn Cambodia, Jolie saw a humanitarian disaster for the first time. She later credited this experience with broadening her perspective on the world. Jolie contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after she got back home to inquire about international hotspots. She started touring refugee camps all around the world to get a better understanding of the circumstances in these places. She made her first field trip in February 2001, traveling for 18 days to Tanzania and Sierra Leone. She afterwards voiced her shock at what she had seen.
"When I began to travel and broaden my understanding beyond my schooling, I realized all I didn't know. I just saw the world more as it really is and felt compelled to be of use. I don't think of it as something good I do, but that I am fortunate to be allowed to work with so many resilient and warm people who have taught me about l
In the months that followed, Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, spent two weeks returning to Cambodia, and gave $1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal—the largest private donation UNHCR had ever received. She paid for all expenses associated with her assignments and always stayed in the same basic accommodations as UNHCR field personnel. On August 27, 2001, Jolie received the UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador designation at its Geneva headquarters.
She visited refugees and internally displaced people in more than 30 countries throughout her more than 40 field visits during the ensuing ten years. To that end, her 2001-2002 field trips were documented in her book Notes from My Travels, which was published in October 2003 in conjunction with the release of her humanitarian drama Beyond Borders. In response to the question of what she hoped to achieve in 2002, she replied, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon."
Jolie wanted to travel to "forgotten emergencies," or situations that the media had stopped covering. She gained notoriety for visiting conflict areas, including the Darfur region of Sudan during the Darfur conflict, the Syrian-Iraqi border during the Second Gulf War, where she had private meetings with American and other international forces, and Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, during the Afghan War, where three aid workers were killed during her first visit. She started taking flying lessons in 2004 to help with her travels with the intention of transporting humanitarian workers and food supplies throughout the globe. Jolie obtained her pilot's license in 2004 and as of May 2014, she was the owner of a Cirrus SR22 and a Cessna 208 Caravan.
Jolie became the first person to hold the role of Special Envoy to High Commissioner António Guterres on April 17, 2012, more than a decade after beginning her work as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She was given the power to speak on behalf of Guterres and UNHCR in her extended capacity, with a particular emphasis on pressing refugee issues. She made her third overall visit to Ecuador in the months after being appointed Special Envoy, when she spoke with Colombian refugees. She also accompanied Guterres on a week-long trip of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq to assess the status of Syrian refugees living nearby. Since then, Jolie has traveled on more than a dozen field missions to meet with refugees and advocate for them.
Jolie gave up her position as ambassador in December 2022. She promised in her declaration that she will keep fighting for refugees.
Development of the community and conservation
Jolie bought a home in her adoptive son's native Cambodia in 2003 to help him feel more connected to his roots. The traditional house was situated next to Samlout National Park in the Cardamom Mountains, which had been invaded by poachers who threatened rare animals, on 39 hectares in the northwest province of Battambang. She acquired the 60,000 hectares of the park and created the Maddox Jolie Project, a wildlife reserve in honor of her son. On July 31, 2005, King Norodom Sihamoni granted her Cambodian citizenship in appreciation of her conservation work.
As part of her project's expansion in November 2006, Jolie renamed it the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP) and set out to build Asia's first Millennium Village in accordance with UN development objectives. She was motivated after a meeting with renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, the creator of Millennium Promise, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where she was a speaker in 2005 and 2006. The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, a 2005 MTV special that accompanied them as they visited a Millennium Village in western Kenya, was produced by the two of them. In ten communities that were previously cut off from one another, by the middle of 2007, over 6,000 villagers and 72 workers—some of whom were former poachers employed as rangers—lived and worked at MJP. The neighborhood has a soy milk factory, roads, and schools, all of which were paid for by Jolie. Her house serves as the MJP field office.
Jolie became a supporter of the Harnas Wildlife Foundation, a wildlife orphanage and medical facility in the Kalahari desert, after filming Beyond Borders (2003) there. She first went to the Harnas farm when the movie, which shows vultures saved by the foundation, was being made. The Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation was founded in December 2010 by Angelina Jolie and her spouse Brad Pitt to aid the conservation efforts of the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary, a nature reserve also situated in the Kalahari. They have supported large-animal conservation initiatives as well as a free medical facility, housing, and school for the San Bushmen village at Naankuse in honor of their daughter who was born in Namibia. Through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which was created in September 2006, Jolie and Pitt promote many causes.
Immigration Of Children And Education
As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball, Jolie said of her advocacy for legislation to help child immigrants and other vulnerable children in both the U.S. and developing countries, including the "Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2005." Since October 2008, she has co-chaired Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a network of top U.S. Initiated as a joint venture between Jolie and the Microsoft Corporation, KIND was the main source of free legal representation for immigrant children by 2013. In the past, from 2005 to 2007, Jolie supported the start of a comparable project, the U.S. The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children of the Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
Jolie has been a supporter of education for kids. She has served as co-chair of the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict since its creation at the annual conference of the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, which provides direction and funding for educational initiatives for youngsters in conflict-affected areas. In its initial year, the alliance provided funding for educational initiatives for a number of disadvantaged groups, including females in rural Afghanistan, youngsters affected by the Darfur crisis, and Iraqi refugee children. Gene Sperling, a well-known economist and the partnership's co-chair, founded the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations. Together, they developed education policies that led to recommendations being made to the World Bank, G8 development agencies, and UN agencies. Since April 2013, the partnership's work has benefited from all sales of Angelina Jolie's upscale jewelry line, Style of Jolie. At the 2013 Women in the World Summit, Jolie also unveiled the Malala Fund, a grant program started by Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, and she personally donated over $200,000 to the cause.
Jolie provided funding for two elementary schools for girls in the returnee settlements of Tangi and Qalai Gudar in eastern Afghanistan, which opened in March 2010 and November 2012, respectively, and the school and boarding facility for girls at Kakuma Refugee Camp in northeastern Kenya, which opened in 2005. By 2005, Jolie had constructed at least ten additional schools in Cambodia in addition to the amenities in the Millennium Village she founded there. She established the Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, in February 2006 as a medical and educational institution for kids living with HIV. She supports a sister facility, the Zahara Children's Center, in Sebeta, Ethiopia, where her eldest daughter was born, which provides care and education for kids with HIV and tuberculosis. The International Health Committee oversees both facilities.
Jolie is the executive producer of the BBC series My World, which attempts to teach teenagers how to evaluate what they read critically and distinguish between good journalism and bad. On September 2, 2021, she and Amnesty International published the children's rights book Know Your Rights and Claim Them. Together with British human rights attorney Geraldine Van Bueren, she co-wrote the book.
Women's Rights And Other Human Rights
Jolie joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in June 2007, and since then has funded several CFR special reports, including "Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities." In January 2011, she founded the Jolie Legal Fellowship, a network of lawyers and attorneys who are sponsored to promote the advancement of human rights in their nations. Following the 2010 earthquake, its member lawyers—known as Jolie Legal Fellows—facilitated child protection initiatives in Haiti and supported the establishment of an inclusive democratic process in Libya.
Jolie is the face of a campaign by the UK government, which designated ending sexual violence in wartime combat zones a top goal during its 2013 G8 presidency. She and Foreign Secretary William Hague introduced the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) in May 2012 after her Bosnian war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) moved Hague to start a campaign against the problem. PSVI was created to support other UK government initiatives by fostering global understanding and cooperation. Jolie addressed the matter before the UN security council, which responded by passing the widest resolution on the subject to date, and before the G8 foreign ministers meeting, when the participating states adopted a historic proclamation. She co-chaired the four-day Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June 2014, the largest gathering ever on the topic, which produced a protocol that was endorsed by 151 countries.
Jolie got to know Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, who were Hague's special advisers on foreign policy, through her work on the PSVI. Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic, a partnership devoted to women's rights and international justice among other issues, was established in 2015 as a result of their collaboration. In order to support the postgraduate degree program at the university's Centre on Women, Peace, and Security, which she had created with Hague the previous year, Jolie was appointed a visiting professor at the London School of Economics in May 2016. Jolie visited Washington, D.C., together with her daughter Zahara, in February 2022. for the introduction in the Senate of the abuse Against Women Reauthorization Act, a piece of legislation intended to combat and prevent stalking, sexual assault, domestic abuse, and dating violence. She collaborated extensively with the supporters and sponsors of the bill. She also supports Kayden's Law, which aims to reduce the risk of harm to children by focusing on trauma-informed court procedures, legal standards, and judicial training.
In September 2020, as Yemen was on the verge of a humanitarian crisis brought on by the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels, Jolie sent a gift to two young boys who were operating a lemonade stand in London to raise money for the people of Yemen. A month after Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022, Jolie paid a visit to Ukrainian youngsters at the Vatican youngsters's Hospital Bambino Gesù. Jolie visited Lviv, Ukraine in May 2022 to meet with more displaced and hospitalized children. She said, "I am praying for an end to the war. This is the only way to end the suffering and the flight from the conflict zone. It's terrifying to see children paying the price in lost lives, compromised health, and trauma."
Acclaim And Honors
Jolie has won a lot of praise for her humanitarian efforts. She was the first recipient of the Humanitarian Award given by the Immigration and Refugee Program of Church World Service in August 2002, as well as the Citizen of the World Award given by the United Nations Correspondents Association in October 2003. In October 2005, the UNA-USA presented her with the Global Humanitarian Award, and in November 2007, the International Rescue Committee presented her with the Freedom Award. In honor of Jolie's ten years as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres gave her a gold pin in October 2011 that is only given to employees with the longest tenure.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Academy Award, was given to Jolie by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November 2013. She was given the honorary title of Dame Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (DCMG) in June 2014 for her contributions to UK foreign policy and work to end sexual abuse in combat areas. In a private ceremony the following October, Queen Elizabeth II gave Jolie the emblem of her honorary damehood.
Private life
Marriages And Partnerships
From the age of 14, Jolie had a committed partner for two years. She later said, "I was either going to be reckless on the streets with my boyfriend or he was going to be with me in my bedroom with my mom in the next room. She made the choice, and because of it, I continued to go to school every morning and explored my first relationship in a safe way." Jolie has compared the relationship to a marriage in its emotional intensity and said that the breakup compelled her to write.
Jolie fell in love for the first time since her early adolescent relationship with actor Jonny Lee Miller while Hackers (1995) was being filmed. After the production ended, they lost contact for several months before reestablishing contact and getting married in March 1996. She wore white T-shirt with the groom's name inked in her blood and black rubber leggings to her wedding. Jolie and Miller's relationship ended the next year, but they remained friendly; she referred to him as "a solid man and a solid friend." Jolie filed for divorce in February 1999, and it was finalized just before she got remarried the following year.
On the set of Foxfire (1996), Jolie started dating model and actress Jenny Shimizu before she wed Miller. In 1997, she admitted, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her." According to Shimizu, their friendship endured for several years and persisted even though Jolie was sexually involved with other people. When asked in a 1997 interview with the lesbian magazine Girlfriends how she felt about being a sex icon to both men and women, Jolie replied, "It's great because I love men and women." In 2003, when asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"
Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas, following a two-month courtship. As Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern at the time, and Jolie was rumored to be seeing actor Timothy Hutton, who was her co-star in the 1997 film Playing God, they decided not to pursue a relationship after meeting on the set of Pushing Tin. Their marriage became a hot issue in the entertainment media as a result of their numerous public confessions of passion and displays of affection, most notably wearing vials of one another's blood around their necks. In March 2002, Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a child from Cambodia, but three months later they abruptly split up. On May 27, 2003, their divorce was legally finalized. Jolie responded, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we just had nothing in common. And it's scary, but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet." when asked about the couple's abrupt divorce.
Actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were suspected of divorcing in October 2005, and Jolie was accused of being the reason behind it. When asked about the nature of her relationship with Pitt, Jolie said she fell in love with him while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). However, she denied any allegations of an affair, saying, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
The duo was known as "Brangelina" for the duration of their 12-year relationship and received extensive international media coverage. They were recognized as one of the sexiest couples in Hollywood. Three of their six children were adopted, and by the time they made their engagement announcement in April 2012, their family had expanded to six. The wedding between Jolie and Pitt took place on August 23, 2014, at their Correns, France, chateau Château Miraval, and they were declared legally wed on August 14, 2014. Later, she adopted the name "Angelina Jolie Pitt". On September 15, 2016, the couple separated after two years of marriage. Jolie requested a divorce on September 19, citing irreconcilable differences. On April 12, 2019, they were declared to be legally single. Jolie filed a countersuit when Pitt sued her for selling her portion of a winery they owned to a third party, alleging that he had physically and verbally harassed her and their kids on a plane in 2016.
Children
Jolie is a mother to six kids. Three of the kids are biological, while three were adopted overseas.
Jolie adopted Maddox Chivan, then seven months old, from a Battambang, Cambodia, orphanage on March 10, 2002. In a nearby village on August 5, 2001, he was given the name Rath Vibol. Jolie returned to Cambodia in November 2001 with her then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton, where they first met and later submitted an adoption application for Maddox after previously being there twice, first for the UNHCR field mission and another while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). The following month, the U.S. government stopped adoptions from Cambodia due to claims of child trafficking, which put an end to the adoption process. Maddox was legally adopted by Jolie, despite the fact that her adoption facilitator was later found guilty of visa fraud and money laundering. When everything was done, she took custody of Maddox in Namibia, where she was filming the 2003 movie Beyond Borders. Jolie and Thornton jointly announced the adoption, but she really adopted Maddox alone, becoming a single parent three months after her split from Thornton.
On July 6, 2005, Jolie adopted Zahara Marley, a six-month-old baby, from an orphanage in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Yemsrach, Zahara's birth name, occurred on January 8, 2005, in Awasa. Based on official evidence from her grandmother, Jolie first assumed Zahara was an AIDS orphan; however, Zahara's birth mother eventually came out in the public. Zahara was "very fortunate" to have been adopted by Jolie, she added, adding that she had abandoned her family when Zahara fell ill. In order to obtain custody of Zahara, Jolie traveled to Ethiopia with her ex-partner Brad Pitt. Later, she revealed that during their initial trip to Ethiopia earlier that year, they had jointly decided to adopt from that country. Her petition to formally alter her children's last name from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt was approved on January 19, 2006, following Pitt's announcement that he intended to adopt her kids. Soon after, Maddox and Zahara were adopted by Pitt.
Jolie and Pitt went to Namibia for the birth of their first biological child in an effort to escape the extraordinary media circus surrounding their relationship. She gave birth daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund on May 27, 2006. The middle name Shiloh is a tribute to the French architect Jean Nouvel. Jolie experienced episodes of hysterical laughter throughout birth as a result of the morphine being given to her. Instead of allowing paparazzi to take pictures of Shiloh, they decided to donate the proceeds from the sale of the first images to charity through the distributor Getty Images. The North American and British rights to the photos were bought by People and Hello! magazines for $4.1 and $3.5 million, respectively, setting records for celebrity photojournalism at the time, with all earnings going to UNICEF.
Three-year-old Pax Thien was adopted by Jolie on March 15, 2007, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is her fourth child. On November 29, 2003, in HCMC, Pham Quang Sang, Pax's real name, was born. He was left for dead not long after. Because Vietnam's adoption laws forbid unmarried couples from co-adopting, Jolie submitted an application for adoption as a single parent after Pitt and she visited the orphanage in November 2006. The court granted her request to change Pax Thien's last name from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt on May 31 after they had left for the United States. Pax was then adopted by Pitt on February 21, 2008.
Jolie announced her twin pregnancy at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Reporters and photographers camped outside on the seafront for the two weeks she was in a beachside hospital in Nice, France. On July 12, 2008, she gave birth to twins named Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline. Vivienne Marcheline was given the same name as Jolie's mother, while Knox Léon was given in honor of two of the twins' relatives. The initial photos of Knox and Vivienne were sold to People and Hello! jointly for a whopping $14 million, making them the most expensive celebrity images ever captured. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation received the entire amount raised.
Treatment For Preventing Cancer
Jolie underwent a preventative double mastectomy on February 16, 2013, at the age of 37, after finding she had a BRCA1 gene mutation that increased her risk of breast cancer by 87 percent. Her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, had breast cancer and passed away from ovarian cancer, and her grandmother also passed away from the disease. This maternal family history supported the need for genetic testing for BRCA mutations. Three months following Jolie's surgery, her aunt, who shared the same BRCA1 flaw, passed away from breast cancer. Jolie underwent reconstructive surgery using implants and allografts (donor tissue transplants) after having a mastectomy, which reduced her risk of developing breast cancer to less than 5%. She underwent a preventative salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube) in March 2015 after annual test results suggested potential early ovarian cancer indications. Due to the same genetic abnormality, she had a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer two years earlier. Although hormone replacement treatment was used, the procedure resulted in an early menopause.
In order to assist other women in making educated health decisions, Jolie wrote about her mastectomy and oophorectomy in op-eds that were published by The New York Times after each procedure. She went into detail about her diagnosis, operations, and personal experiences. She also discussed how she made the proactive decision to have preventive surgery for the benefit of her six children. On a personal level, I do not feel any less of a woman, Jolie continued. I feel strong since I made a decision that does not in any way lessen my femininity.
The news that Jolie had a mastectomy generated a lot of media attention and discussion about BRCA mutations and genetic testing. Numerous public personalities applauded her decision, and health advocates praised her for raising awareness of the options open to at-risk women. Jolie's influence, dubbed "The Angelina Effect" by a Time cover story, caused a "global and long-lasting" rise in BRCA gene testing: the number of referrals tripled in Australia, doubled in the UK, increased significantly in other European nations, and increased significantly in the United States. The fact that the percentage of mutation carriers remained the same despite the significant rise, according to researchers in Canada and the UK, indicates that Jolie's message was heard by those who were most at risk. In her first opinion piece, Jolie argued for more accessibility to BRCA gene testing while also acknowledging its high cost. However, once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Myriad Genetics' ownership of the BRCA gene patents in June 2013, the cost of BRCA gene testing significantly decreased.
Reception
Public Perception
Jolie made media appearances as a young child since she is the actor Jon Voight's daughter. She developed a reputation as a "wild child" after starting her own profession, which helped to explain her early success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her preoccupation with blood and blades, her use of drugs, and her sex life—particularly her bisexuality and interest in sadomasochism—were frequently documented in celebrity profiles. In response to a question regarding her candor, she said in 2000: "I speak things that other people might go through. Artists should do that—throw things out there, imperfectly, without having any solutions, and see if others can understand. The tabloid accusations of incest that started when Jolie kissed her brother on the lips after winning the Oscar for Girl, Interrupted and declared, "I'm so in love with my brother right now," were another factor in her problematic image. She denied the claims, saying, "It was disappointing that something so beautiful and pure could be turned into a circus," and said that she and James needed one another for emotional support because their parents were separated.
At age 26, Jolie was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She later reflected, "In my early 20s, I was at odds with myself. Now I go to Washington and fight for something significant with the punk inside of me. Her Q Score, a marketing industry gauge of celebrities' likability, nearly increased to 25 between 2000 and 2006 as a result of her significant activity. She became more recognizable as a result; in 2006, 81% of Americans were familiar with her, up from 31% in 2000. Without using a publicist or agent, she became renowned for her ability to positively affect her public image through the media. Even when she was accused of dissolving Brad Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston in 2005, when her public profile changed to include allegations of being a home wrecker, mother, sex icon, and humanitarian, her Q Score continued to be above average. Ten years later, YouGov surveys indicated that Jolie was the most admired woman in the world in 2015 and 2016.
There is a variety of information on Jolie's power and fortune in general. Jolie and Pitt were discovered to be the most popular celebrity endorsers for businesses and products worldwide in a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets. From 2006 to 2008, Jolie served as the spokesperson for St. John and Shiseido, and a decade later she worked as a spokesmodel for Guerlain. Her endorsement arrangement with Louis Vuitton in 2011 was the most expensive single marketing campaign ever, with a claimed $10 million value. In 2006 and 2008, Jolie was on the Time 100, a list of the world's most influential people as compiled by Time. She was featured as the most powerful celebrity in the world from 2006 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2013 while being ranked lower overall in Forbes' Celebrity 100 edition, which was published in 2009. With estimated annual earnings of $27 million, $30 million, and $33 million, respectively, Forbes also listed her as Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 2009, 2011, and 2013.
Appearance
Jolie's perceived attractiveness and sex appeal are very important to her public image. Both of these titles—the most beautiful woman in the world according to many media outlets like Vogue, People, and Vanity Fair, and the sexiest woman alive according to Esquire, FHM, and Empire—have frequently been based on public polls in which Jolie consistently outperforms other famous women. Her numerous tattoos, expressive eyes, and particularly large lips—which The New York Times compared to Bette Davis' eyes or Kirk Douglas' chin—are her most distinctive physical traits. A 12-inch tiger, four Buddhist Sanskrit prayers of protection, the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit," the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages," the coordinates of where she first met her adopted children, and an estimated 20 tattoos are among her body art. Her second husband's name, "Billy Bob," was one of many tattoos she has since concealed or laser-removed.
Jolie's image as a sex icon has been viewed as both a benefit and a drawback professionally. Her sex appeal was overtly used in some of her most financially successful movies, such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Beowulf (2007). According to Empire, her "pneumatic figure," "feline eyes," and "bee-stung lips" have greatly contributed to her appeal to moviegoers. Clint Eastwood, who directed Jolie in Changeling (2008), believed that having "the most beautiful face on the planet" occasionally hurt her dramatic credibility with audiences. On the other hand, Salon writer Allen Barra agreed with critics who claimed that Jolie's "dark and intense sexuality" has limited the types of roles she can be cast in, making her unconvincing in many conventional women's roles.
Jolie has been attributed for impacting popular culture in general in addition to her career. She added that "there are many beautiful women in Hollywood, but few generate the same kind of overwhelming interest across genders and sexual orientations that she does." AfterEllen founder Sarah Warn first noticed that many women of all sexual orientations had publicly expressed their attraction to Jolie in 2002. She thought this was a novel development in American culture. Western women seeking cosmetic surgery grew very interested in Jolie's physical characteristics; by 2007, she was regarded as "the gold standard of beauty," with her large lips continuing to be the most copied celebrity feature well into the 2010s. Author Elizabeth Angell attributed society with having "branched out beyond the Barbie-doll ideal and embraced something quite different" when a 2011 follow-up survey by Allure revealed that Jolie most accurately embodied the American beauty standard, as opposed to model Christie Brinkley in 1991. In 2013, Time's Jeffrey Kluger felt that Jolie had long represented the ideal of the feminine and said that her openness about having a double mastectomy had redefined beauty.
Jolie is regarded as a fashion icon and trend-setter for celeb attire. She started walking the red carpet at age ten. She had a dependable alliance with Versace in the 1990s. She had a reputation for donning gothic and leather "coquette" looks in the beginning of her film career. Her fashion was viewed at this time as being mysterious, seductive, dramatic, and vampish. She made her fashion debut with a sequined Randolph Duke gown at the 1999 Golden Globe Awards. Marc Bouwer's white satin dress, which Jolie wore to the 76th Academy Awards, garnered praise from critics and similarities to the style of various famous actors from the golden age of cinema. Her style evolved as she moved from acting to directing and humanitarian work, becoming more refined, minimalist, and glamorous with an Old Hollywood aesthetic. Jolie favored Grecian silhouettes, satin gowns, and diamond jewelry in the 2010s. She wore a Versace-designed black velvet gown to the 84th Academy Awards, which has been dubbed one of the most important gowns in pop culture and fashion history, with Jolie's posing inspiring Internet memes. Jolie prefers to spend money on high-quality items, and she started dressed in more eco-friendly fashion in the 2020s.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1982 | Lookin' to Get Out | Tosh | Credited as Angelina Jolie Voight |
1993 | Cyborg 2 | Casella "Cash" Reese | |
Angela & Viril | Angela | Short film | |
Alice & Viril | Alice | Short film | |
1995 | Hackers | Kate Libby/"Acid Burn" | |
1996 | Without Evidence | Jodie Swearingen | |
Love Is All There Is | Gina Malacici | ||
Mojave Moon | Ellie Rigby | ||
Foxfire | Legs Sadovsky | ||
1997 | Playing God | Claire | |
1998 | Hell's Kitchen | Gloria McNeary | |
Playing by Heart | Joan | ||
1999 | Pushing Tin | Mary Bell | |
The Bone Collector | Amelia Donaghy | ||
Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | ||
2000 | Gone in 60 Seconds | Sara "Sway" Wayland | |
2001 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Lara Croft | |
Original Sin | Julia Russell | ||
2002 | Life or Something Like It | Lanie Kerrigan | |
2003 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life | Lara Croft | |
Beyond Borders | Sarah Jordan | ||
2004 | Taking Lives | Illeana Scott | |
Shark Tale | Lola (voice) | ||
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Franky Cook | ||
The Fever | Revolutionary | Cameo | |
Alexander | Olympias | ||
2005 | Confessions of an Action Star | Herself | Cameo |
Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Jane Smith | ||
2006 | The Good Shepherd | Margaret "Clover" Russell Wilson | |
2007 | A Mighty Heart | Mariane Pearl | |
Beowulf | Grendel's mother | ||
2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Master Tigress (voice) | |
Wanted | Fox | ||
Changeling | Christine Collins | ||
2010 | Salt | Evelyn Salt | |
The Tourist | Elise Clifton-Ward | ||
2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Master Tigress (voice) | |
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters | Master Tigress (voice) | ||
2014 | Maleficent | Maleficent | |
2015 | By the Sea | Vanessa | Credited as Angelina Jolie Pitt |
2016 | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Master Tigress (voice) | |
2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Maleficent | |
2020 | Come Away | Rose Littleton | |
The One and Only Ivan | Stella (voice) | ||
2021 | Those Who Wish Me Dead | Hannah Faber | |
Eternals | Thena |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1997 | True Women | Georgia Lawshe Woods | Television film |
George Wallace | Cornelia Wallace | Television film | |
1998 | Gia | Gia Carangi | Television film |
2010 | Kung Fu Panda Holiday | Master Tigress (voice) | Television special |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2004 | The Flying Legion Air Combat Challenge | Captain Franky Cook | Archive footage |
Music videos
Year | Title | Artist | Album |
1991 | "Alta Marea (Don't Dream It's Over)" | Antonello Venditti | Benvenuti in Paradiso |
"Stand by My Woman" | Lenny Kravitz | Mama Said | |
1992 | "Wonderin" | Widespread Panic | Everyday |
1993 | "Everyday" | The Lemonheads | Come on Feel the Lemonheads |
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell | |
1997 | "Anybody Seen My Baby?" | The Rolling Stones | Bridges to Babylon |
2003 | "Did My Time" | Korn | Take a Look in the Mirror |
Filmmaking credits
Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | ||
Director | Producer | Writer | |||
2005 | Trudell | No | Executive | No | Documentary |
2007 | A Place in Time | Yes | No | No | Documentary |
2011 | In the Land of Blood and Honey | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2014 | Difret | No | Executive | No | |
Maleficent | No | Executive | No | ||
Unbroken | Yes | Yes | No | ||
2015 | By the Sea | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2017 | First They Killed My Father | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
The Breadwinner | No | Executive | No | ||
2019 | Serendipity | No | Executive | No | Documentary |
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | No | Yes | No | ||
2020 | The One and Only Ivan | No | Yes | No | |
TBD | Without Blood | Yes | Yes | Yes | Filming |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
1998 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or Movie | George Wallace | Nominated |
1998 | Golden Globe Award | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Won | |
1998 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or Movie | Gia | Nominated |
1999 | Golden Globe Award | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Won | |
1999 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Female Actor – Miniseries or Television Movie | Won | |
2000 | Academy Award | Best Supporting Actress | Girl, Interrupted | Won |
2000 | Golden Globe Award | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Won | |
2000 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Supporting Female Actor | Won | |
2008 | Golden Globe Award | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | A Mighty Heart | Nominated |
2008 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Leading Female Actor | Nominated | |
2009 | Academy Award | Best Actress | Changeling | Nominated |
2009 | BAFTA Award | Best Leading Actress | Nominated | |
2009 | Golden Globe Award | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Nominated | |
2009 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Leading Female Actor | Nominated | |
2011 | Golden Globe Award | Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | The Tourist | Nominated |
2012 | Golden Globe Award | Best Foreign Language Film | In the Land of Blood and Honey | Nominated |
2018 | BAFTA Award | Best Film Not in the English Language | First They Killed My Father | Nominated |
2018 | Golden Globe Award | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |
Quick Bio
Nickname | Angie, Ange, AJ |
Gender | Female |
Age | 47 years old (in 2023) |
Date of Birth | June 4, 1975 |
Full Name | Angelina Jolie Voight |
Profession | Actress, filmmaker, director, social activist and philanthropist |
Nationality | American-Cambodian |
Birthplace | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Religion | Catholic |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Qualification | Studied arts from Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, West Hollywood |
Profession | Actress, filmmaker, director, social activist and philanthropist |
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Body Measurements | 36-23-35 inch |
Body type | Hourglass |
Height | 5 Feet 7 Inches (1.70 m) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lbs) |
Waist | 23 inch |
Hair Color | Dark Brown |
Eye Color | Grey |
Shoe Size | 9 (US) |
Dress Size | 4 (US) |
Family & Relatives
Father | Jon Voight |
Mother | Marcheline Bertrand |
Brother | James Haven (brother) |
Sister | None |
Marital Status | Divorced |
Ex Spouse | Brad Pitt |
No. of Children | 6 (3 adopted) |
Son | Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (adopted in 2002), Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (adopted 2007), Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt (born 2008) |
Daughter | Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (adopted, 2005), Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (born 2006), Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (adopted 2008) |
Past Relationships |
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Angelina Jolie Favorites
Hobbies | Reading, travelling |
Favorite Food | Cheerios (Brand of Breakfast Cereals), McDonald’s |
Favorite Color | Black |
Favorite Cars | BMW Hydrogen 7, Range Rover, Jaguar XJ, Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Tahoe |
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