Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Although a respected actress who has been awarded an Oscar, an Emmy and three Golden Globes, Jolie is noted as much for her tattooes, exotic looks and sensual lips as for her acting.

Jolie became very familiar with her profession growing up, being the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at the age of 11.

In addition to acting, Jolie produced a film in 2003 called Lovesick. She has also worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for many artists, including Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, The Rolling Stones, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. Additionally, Jolie has acted in 5 student films for the USC School of Cinema.

In 1995, she married the British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she co-starred in the movie Hackers. They divorced in 1999. She married Academy Award Winner Billy Bob Thornton in May 2000 and adopted a son, Maddox, from Cambodia, but they too divorced in 2002 and she now has custody of Maddox.

Aside from her acting, she is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001.

Jolie's performance in 1999's Girl, Interrupted won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She was one of the first celebrities to accept the invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Her tattoos include:

  • the letter H on the inside of her left wrist
  • A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages (Tennessee Williams) on her left forearm
  • a dragon on her left arm
  • 死, the Japanese Kanji character for "death" on the back of her left shoulder
  • two pointy black tribals on the lower parts of her back
  • Quod me nutrit me destruit (Latin for "What nourishes me also destroys me") a couple of inches beneath her navel
  • a tilted Latin cross on the lower left of her abdomen

Filmography

2004

2003 2002
  • Life Or Something Like It - Lanie

2001 2000
  • Gone in 60 Seconds - Sara 'Sway' Wayland

1999
  • Girl, Interrupted - Lisa Rowe
  • Bone Collector - Amelia Donaghy
  • Pushing Tin - Mary Bell

1998
  • Playing By Heart - Joan
  • Hell's Kitchen - Gloria McNeary
  • ''Gia (TV) - Gia Marie Carangi

1997
  • Playing God - Claire
  • George Wallace (TV) - Cornelia Wallace
  • True Woman (TV) - Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods

1996
  • Mojave Moon - Eleanor 'Elie' Rigby
  • Foxfire - Margret 'Legs' Sadovsky
  • Love Is All There Is - Gina Malacici

1995
  • Without Evidence - Jodie Swearingen
  • Hackers - Kate Libby ('Acid Burn')

1993
  • Angela and Viril - Angela
  • Cyborg 2 - Casella 'Cash' Reese

1982
  • Lookin' to Get Out - Tosh

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