Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie, birth name was Angelina Jolie Voight. She was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California.

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She is an American Performing Artist, Producer, and Philanthropic. Angelina Jolie has earned many awards, including two Guild Awards, 1 Academy Award as well as three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie has been described as the highest-paid actor on screen.

Childhood

Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California to her father Jon Voight, and mother Marcheline Bertrand. Both are actors. Jolie got her inspiration to be an actor by viewing films alongside her mom as an infant. She was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she acted in numerous stage productions.

Jolie quit acting classes at 14 and wanted to be a funeral director. Jolie began her career as a model, mostly around Los Angeles, New York, and London. She completed high school and then returned for acting lessons two years later.

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Early Life and Acting Roots

Actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie Voight was born on the 4th of June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. She started acting at a very young age and began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her teens. Jolie later went to New York University.

Personal Life

In March 1996, Jolie was married in the month of March 1996. British actress Jonny Lee Miller. Miller who was her co-star in the movie “Hackers,”. Unsatisfied with her wedding dress, she donned black rubber pants and a white shirt that had Jonny’s name written on it in blood.

Jolie and Miller broke up the following year and divorced later in 1999. Jolie is bisexual and previously had an affair in the past with Jenny Shimizu. The couple then got married to American actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2000.

Career

Although she first made her screen debut in her early years, Jolie’s acting career started a decade later in the low-budget film Cyborg 2 (1993) and after that, her first lead part as a lead actress in Hackers (1995). The actress was able to appear in the highly well-received biographical film George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998) and received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the soap opera Girl, Interrupted (1999).

Jolie became famous internationally for her performance as the videogame heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and the sequel, which came out in 2003. Since then, she has been recognized among the most popular and most highly-paid acting stars in Hollywood. One of her greatest commercial successes has been the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) however Beowulf as well as The Good Shepherd also did very well.

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Angelina Jolie’s Net Worth

The income Angelina Jolie’s in June 2013 totaled a sum of $33 million (Forbes).

Angelina Jolie’s Daughter

Shiloh Nouvel, Zahara Marley, Vivienne Marcheline

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie began dating in 2005 and then split in 2016. Here’s a full chronology of their marriage.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Angelina Jolie

• Angelina has 5 non-American blood ancestry, as she has blood traces from France, Germany, Slovakia, Netherlands and Canada.
• Angelina has carried off one Oscar, 3 Golden Globe awards, and 2 Screen Actors Guild awards.
• Angelina has starred not only in films but also in many music videos with renowned singers like Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz and the Rolling Stones.
• Angelina is fond of collecting different types of knives and reading first edition books.
• Angelina is one of the highest paid Hollywood actresses. She was ranked on top of the Hollywood’s most paid actresses during the years 2009 and 2011 but now she receives $15 million per movie.
• Does Angelina Jolie drink alcohol?: Yes
• Does Angelina Jolie smoke?: Yes
• During her studies, Angelina wanted to be a funeral director.
• Her father Jon Voight was an actor, even her mother Marcheline was an actor, her first acting role was alongside her father in the film Lookin’ to Get Out (1982).
• She had an obsessive childhood crush on the fictional character of “Dr. Spock” from the TV program Star Treck that became famous during the 1970
• She keeps her famous lips healthy with Blistex brand lip balm.
• She loves doing her own stunts. As Lara Croft in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), she performed almost 80% of the stunts.
• She made her major acting breakthrough 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.
• When she was 14 years old, her mother allowed her to sleep with her boyfriend in her room, while her mother would sleep in the room next door.
• When she was growing up, she didn’t like being hugged. During an interview with London’s Mail on Sunday, she said, “Growing up, I had a thing about people hugging me, even my mother, I’m holding my breath now just talking about it.”

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