Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Biography
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.
Angelina Jolie Filmography
Film Year Role Notes and Awards
- Kung Fu Panda 2008 Master Tigress Voice
- Wanted 2008 Fox People's Choice Award Favorite Female Action Star Nominated People's Choice Award Favorite Female Movie Star
- Changeling 2008 Christine Collins Nominated Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated Golden G
- A Mighty Heart 2007 Mariane Pearl Nominated Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama Nominated Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead
- Beowulf 2007 Grendel's mother Nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
- The Good Shepherd 2006 Margaret Russell
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 Jane Smith MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated People's Choice Award Favorite Female Movie Star Nominated People's Choice Award Favorite Female Action Star Nominated People's Choice Award Favorite On
- Taking Lives 2004 Illeana Scott
- Shark Tale 2004 Lola Voice
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Francesca "Franky" Cook People's Choice Award Favorite Female Action Star
- The Fever (TV) 2004 Revolutionary Cameo
- Alexander 2004 Olympias
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 2003 Lara Croft
- Beyond Borders 2003 Sarah Jordan
- Life or Something Like It 2002 Lanie Kerrigan
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001 Lara Croft
- Original Sin 2001 Julia Russell
- Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000 Sara "Sway" Wayland
- The Bone Collector 1999 Amelia Donaghy
- Girl, Interrupted 1999 Lisa Rowe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture Nominated
- Gia (TV) 1998 Gia Marie Carangi Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries Nominated Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Hell's Kitchen 1998 Gloria McNeary
- Playing by Heart 1998 Joan National Board of Review Award Breakthrough Performance
- Pushing Tin 1998 Mary Bell
- Playing God 1997 Claire
- True Women (TV) 1997 Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
- George Wallace (TV) 1997 Cornelia Wallace Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Series/Miniseries/TV Movie Nominated Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Mojave Moon 1996 Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
- Love Is All There Is 1996 Gina Malacici
- Foxfire 1996 Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
- Without Evidence 1995 Jodie Swearingen
- Hackers 1995 Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
- Cyborg 2 1993 Casella "Cash" Reese
- Lookin' to Get Out 1982 Tosh
