Angelina Jolie Voight was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand seperated when she was just 1 year old.
The actress has been long estranged from her father. “My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned.” She stated.
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers (1995). Her wedding outfit was black rubber pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom’s name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, “It comes down to timing. I think he’s the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I’ll always love him, we were simply too young.”
Angelina has starred in over 30 feature films, amongst her most acclaimed roles are Lisa Rowe in 1999 movie ‘Girl, Interrupted’, Mariane Pearl in 2007’s A Mighty Heart, mother Christine Collins in 2008’s Changeling.
Angelina met American actor Billy Bob Thornton in 1999, and subsequently married him on on May 5, 2000.They were famous for frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love – most famously wearing one another’s blood in vials around their necks. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, “It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it’s scary but… I think it can happen when you get involved and you don’t know yourself yet.”
At the 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards, she won the award for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television’ for her role in Gia, the 1998 television film about the life of model Gia Marie Carangi.
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie’s films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) changed all that and made her an international superstar.
The film is an adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, and Jolie was required to learn a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft.
After her parents’ separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, intially in New York and then Los Angeles. When Angelina was 14, her mother controversially let Angelina’s boyfriend live with them. > In 2007, Marcheline, aged 56 years old, died after battling cancer for more than seven-and-a-half years.
In 2002, in a move contrary to her renowned reckless behaviour, Jolie adopted a baby boy from Cambodia, the country she fell in love with while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She named him Maddox, and put only her name on the adoption papers, a move that implied a rift in her marriage with Billy Bob. The pair divorced the following year.
In early 2005, Angelina was involved in a well-publicised Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
Whilst Angelina always denied an affair on the set of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith in which her and Brad starred, she did admit that they “fell in love” at that time.
On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt’s child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.
Following her adoption of Maddox, Angelina went on to extend her family with: – Zahara Marley, a six-month-old girl adopted from Ethiopia, in 2005.
She then gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Namibia, by a scheduled caesarean section, in 2006.
In 2007, she adopted three-year-old boy Pax Thien, from Vietnam.
In 2008 she gave birth to twins – Knox Leon, a boy, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, in Nice, France.
Angelina has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In Pakistan she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal. She insists on covering all costs related to her missions and shares the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”
Angelina and Brad continue to dodge comments about the supposed unhealthy state of their marriage. They are based in France.
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