Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director most well-known for her sex appeal, edginess and humanitarian work. Jolie was awarded an Academy Award for her supporting part as a mentally ill 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. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years and was then accepted into Beverly Hills High School. She later studied drama at New York University. She also performed in theatre productions. In later years, she did modeling and appeared in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996, divorced 1999). The film failed to find an audience, and neither did another series of films. However, in 1997 Jolie received a lot of attention for her role as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the film George Wallace, and she later was awarded the Golden Globe Award for her performance. The following year , she portrayed a supermodel struggling with addiction to drugs in the HBO movie Gia which won her several awards, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She co-starred with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. In the following year, she married Thornton (divorced in 2003). In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) Jolie played Nicole Cage's lover. She later took on an accent that resembled a British accent, and mastered kickboxing and street fighting for the role of the title in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also played alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in the 1930s of New York City. Both films were box office disappointments however, Jolie scored a hit in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) which was a film where she played an assassin who was disguised as a typical housewife. While working on the film, she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.