Angelina Jolie (1975) - Actress, Director, Humanitarian

Introduction

Angelina Jolie is an American film actress who started her debut in the film industry from her childhood with her father in “lookin’ to get out”. She was famous for her humanitarian activity and she was honoured for that too. In the American entertainment industry she was known to be one of the most powerful people. She encourages various sources such as education, conservation and women’s rights. She was not only an actress but also she directed films too.

Early life and Education

• The full name of Angelina Jolie was Angelina Jolie Voight and she was born in Los Angeles in California on 4th June 1975.

• Her parents are Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. They are also actors in the film industry. They have two children. Her brother is also an actor named James Haven.

• After the separation of her parents in 1976, both Angelin and her brother lived with their mother. She abandoned her career to take care of her children.

• They lived in New York and returned to Los Angeles when she was 11. As per her desire she enrolled and trained for two years in Lee Strasberg Theatre institute and then into Beverly Hills high school.

• After being unsuccessful in modeling she graduated in a high school at the age of 16. As she found it too difficult to connect with people, she suffered a lot and started to take drugs and attempted suicide for two times. She was admitted to UCLA medical centre at the age of 24. She became stabilised at the age of 26 when she adopted a child.

• On September 12, 2002, her name was legally changed to Angelina Jolie.

Career

She worked in several music videos from 1991 to 1993. Professionally she started her career in 1993 in science fiction sequel. After the role of supporting actress in “without evidence” in 1995, she starred in the film Hackers which gave her a breakthrough.

In 1997 she won a Golden Globe Award for “George Wallace”. In 1998 she acted as a super model in “Gia”. After this film she joined New York University to study Direction and screenplay. The role she played in the film Tom Rider in 2001 made her an international superstar and it was implemented in video games.

In 2005 “Mr and Mrs Smith” gave her a box office success and she became the most payable actress in 2008. She started doing direction from 2007 and she has grown well in that and she dedicated herself to humanitarian work.

Humanitarian work

Angelina joined the United Nations high Commissioner of Refugees and she was promoted from Goodwill Ambassador to diplomat. She stood up against the sexual violence in armed conflict.

She also started Jolie Pitt foundation in joint with her husband Brad Pitt in 2006 and started by donating $1 million. She joined the Afghanistan Relief organisation that to provide food, medicine, relief supplies and hygiene supplies to Afghan citizens and also free education to children.

She also tied with the Lost boys of Sudan and Londan school of economics.

Personal life

• Angelina has been married three times in her life. Her first husband was Jonny Lee Miller who acted with her in the film “Hacker” in 1995. They got married in 1996. Their relationship last till 1999.

• After that Angelina got married to Billy Bob Thornton in 2000 as they starred together in the film “Pushing Tin” in 1999. In March 2002 Angelina adopted a boy child from Cambodia named “Maddox”. Soon after Billy separated from Angelina in June 2002.

• After getting divorce from Billy she got married to Brad Pitt. He was the father of all children. With “Maddox”, they adopted a daughter “Zahara” from Ethiopia in 2005 and then their biological daughter Shiloh in 2006.

• In 2007 They adopted “Pax” and then they have twin daughters named Vivienne and Knox. They got married in 2014 but separated in 2016.

Reception

• Angelina had a good reputation among the public as she was a Goodwill Ambassador.

• The Global survey conducted in 2015 and 2016 depicts that she was the most admirable woman in the world. She was well recognised in public by her beauty and sex appeal.

Filmography

• From 1982 She appeared in around 30 film productions. Some of the most successful films were listed below.

Name of the film	Year
Playing by heart, Gia	1998
Gone in 60 seconds	2000
Tomb Raider	2001
Alexander	2004
Mr & Mrs Smith	2005
Kung FU Panda	2008

• Also she directed many films such as Unbroken in 2014, By the sea in 2015, First they killed my father in 2017 and so on.

Awards and Nominations

• Angelina was nominated for many awards and also she received many awards. She was nominated for Emmy award, Academy award, Golden Globe award, Screen actors guild award and BAFTA award many times. She received 3 Golden Globe awards, 1 Academy award and 2 screen actors guild award.

Conclusion

Angelina was a well known actress in Hollywood. She is also famous for her humanitarian work. She was not only an actress but also she directed films. She received many awards for her film work.

FAQs

Q1. Why did Angelina adopt a child?

Ans. Angelina wants to be a mother of any child who needs good care and a better life to live

Q2. Who takes care of the children?

Ans. After Pitt and Jolie divorced, Pitt got joint legal custody of their five minor children.

Q3. Angelina removed her surname.why?

Ans. Due to the estrangement with her father in adulthood she petitioned to change her name