Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director, best known for her sexual edginess, sex appeal, and humanitarian work. She won an Academy Award for her supporting part as a mentally ill patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her early years in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute She enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied acting at New York University. Also, she was an actor in theatre productions. She also performed as a model and in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced 1999).). The film was not well-loved, and so were several other films. In 1997, however Jolie received a lot of attention for her role as the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the film George Wallace, and she was later awarded a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. In the HBO film Gia, she was a model who suffered from drug addiction. The actress was awarded numerous distinctions which included the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999, she was a part of the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year , she was married to Billy Bob Thornton (divorced 2003).After the Oscar-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie played a variety of action films. Jolie portrayed the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Then she switched to a British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing in order to take on the roles of Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. Jolie played Alexander's mother in Oliver stone's Alexander in 2004 and she also appeared alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth paltrow in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow The World of Tomorrow, a thriller that is set in the 1930s in New York City. Both films disappointed at the box office, but Jolie's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) was the biggest success. Jolie played a character who was playing a typical homewife during the making of the film. Brad Pitt became her co-star.