Angelina Jolie | Notable Biographies

(1975/06/04 - Unknown)

Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Voight
American actress

He was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California.
Daughter of actor Jon Voightand actress Marcheline Bertrand . Sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor. Her godparents were the actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. By father has German and Slovak, descent and by mother, French-Canadian, Dutch and German. After the separation of his parents in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with his mother, who left acting to devote himself to raising their children. When he was six years old, with her mother and her partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved to Palisades, in Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. Returned to Los Angeles five years later.
During his student days he participated in a theater group, where he met other future stars such asEd Harris andHolly Hunter. After this experience, she enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute, which was formed during two years and appeared in several theatrical productions. He also attended Beverly Hills High School, where said they felt isolated among the children of some of the more affluent families since his mother survived with a modest income. He was mocked for its thinness, for wearing glasses and braces. Is the moved to Moreno High School, an alternative school, where he became a punk.
He dropped out of her acting classes and their aspirations were to become Director of funeral home, so studied embalming. At age 16, graduated from high school and rented his own apartment, before returning to acting studies. Then he suffered from insomnia, feeding disorder and began to experiment with drugs; at age 20, said that he had consumed "possible almost all", in particular heroin. He suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide (at age of 19 and 22, when he tried to hire a Hitman to kill her). At the age of 24, he experienced a nervous breakdown and was 72 hours in the psychiatric ward of the UCLA Medical Center. Two years later, after the adoption of their first child, he found stability in his life.
Jolie had a dysfunctional relationship with his father, which began when Voight left the family. They were reconciled when they appeared together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but the relationship deteriorated again. It asked a court legally eliminate your last name "Voight" in favor of his middle name, which had been used for a long time as a stage name; He was awarded on September 12, 2002. They did not speak for more than six years but rather then began to relate after the death of his mother by ovarian cancer, on January 27, 2007.
He worked as a model and appeared in music videos of Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and Lenny Kravitz. In 1998 appears in the film Hell's Kitchen, and also in Playing by Heart, along with Sean Connery. It is out of control, along with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett. After working with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (the bone collector). It stars as Lisa Rowe in innocence interrupted in 1999, based on the life of 'Susanna Kaysen", played by the actress Winona Ryder. Jolie won an Oscar for best supporting actress. After it appears in 60 seconds, ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage.
In 2001 played Lara Croft the heroine of Tomb Raider, a role that gave a boost to his already significant career into an international star. In this adaptation of the "Tomb Raider" video game, it was subjected to martial arts classes. That year he starred in with the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas original sinmovie, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. In 2002 works in seven days and a life, and in 2003 returned to playing "Lara Croft", in the film entitled Lara Croft Tomb Raider: the cradle of life. Subsequently he made loving dangerously. Along with Ethan Hawke, he starred in the film lives of others, in 2004. In that same year, a fish of the Dreamworks Shark Talemovie put voice to "Lola". It then appears in the film Alexanderby Oliver Stone, as "Olympia".
In 2005 performs the action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a successful commercial, together that would be her sentimental partner Brad Pitt. In 2006, Jolie works in the film The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro and made his debut as Director with the documentary A Place in Time, in 2007, over 27 different locations of the world in just one week. Then starred in an invincible heart, about the murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. She received her fourth Golden Globe nomination and his third nomination for the Awards of the Union of actors. That same year he works in animation, Beowulf, based on the English poem of the same name, directed by Robert Zemeckis. In 2008 he participated in Wanted, adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar and puts the voice in Dreamworks, Kung Fu Pandamovie. Clint Eastwood the contract for Changeling (Exchange), a drama filmed in December 2007 which gave another nomination to the Oscar for best actress. In 2009, wheel Salt in New York and Washington D. C., suffering a small lesion in the head.
In 2011, Jolie made her debut as a Director, and was also the writer, In the Land of Blood and Honey, film set in the Bosnia war.
It participates in the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), has visited refugee camps in different parts of the world humanitarian.
Had her first boyfriend 14 years. His mother allowed them to live together at home, and after his break returned to devote himself to his career as an actress at age 16. During the filming of Hackers (1995), he had an affair with British actor Jonny Lee Miller. They left relate for many months but finally married on March 28, 1996. He attended her wedding with black leather pants and a white shirt, which wrote the name of the groom with his blood. They separated in September 1997 and divorced on 3 February 1999. He began a relationship with actress and model Jenny Shimizu for the filming of Foxfire (1996). According to Shimizu, their relationship lasted many years and continued even while Jolie was with other people. In 2003, when asked if she was bisexual, replied: "of course". After a two-month courtship, he married the actor Billy Bob Thornton, on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas. They met working on Pushing Tin (1999), then Thornton was engaged with the actress Laura Dern, while Jolie was dating the actor Timothy Hutton, which rolled Playing by Heart (1997). Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a Cambodian child in March 2002; three months later they separated and divorced on May 27, 2003.
In early 2005, she became involved in a scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce between the actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The actress, with 30 years, gave birth to a girl on May 27, 2006 in Namibia, from his relationship with Pitt, by then with 42. The couple decided to be called Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, which in Hebrew means peace or tranquility. In 2011, it ranked first together with Sarah Jessica Parker in the list of the magazine Forbes, of the best paid actresses in Hollywood.
After nine years of relationship and six children in common, Brad Pitt (50) and Angelina Jolie (39) were married on August 23, 2014, on his property, Chateau Miraval, France, in an intimate ceremony in the chapel of the chateau before a group of family and friends. The six children of the couple estabieron present and they were the largest - Maddox and Pax - who led to the altar to his mother. Zahara and Vivienne threw flower petals while Shiloh and Knox wore rings.
In the month of may of 2013 he made public that had undergone a double mastectomy, which was submitted in February and reconstructive surgery in April of the same year. The actress issued a letter in The New York Times, where he explained that being carrier of the BRCA1 gene, it dramatically increased the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.