Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, originally Angelina Jolie Voight (born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, director, and producer best known for her sexual appeal as in her work for the cause of humanitarian aid. Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her early years, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was the character of the mental patient in Girl, interrupted (1999). She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years and was then accepted into Beverly Hills High School. She then studied drama at New York University. Also, she was an actor in theater productions. Later, she modelled and appeared in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced 1999, divorced). It was not well-received, as were a number of other movies. Jolie in the role of governor's wife in Alabama, a segregationist attracted a lot of attention in 1997. Later, she won an award called the Golden Globe Award. Jolie played a supermodel who struggles with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. This performance earned her numerous honours including an award of the Golden Globe Award and 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). She played the girlfriend of an armed carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopting the British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing to play the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She played the role of Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2004. She also starred with Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow The World of Tomorrow, a thriller about sci-fi set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box office disappointments however Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) in which she played an assassin who was disguised as an ordinary housewife. While working on the film she became acquainted with Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.