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Angelina Jolie (who was born
Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is
an American actress and humanitarian. She is renowned for her award
winning acting talent and known for her exotic looks, full lips,
wild child image, numerous tattoos and her humanitarian work with
refugees. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe
in the movie Girl, Interrupted. In July 2005, Jolie became the third
actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club; of actresses
commanding fees of $20 million per movie. She joined Cameron Diaz
and Julia Roberts when she signed to do Mr. & Mrs. Smith for
that amount. Jolie became a citizen of Cambodia by decree of its
King Norodom Sihamoni on August 11, 2005; the citizenship was
awarded to her in honor of her environmental work in the country,
but has no effect on her U.S. citizenship. Biography</strong>
Jolie is the daughter of divorced actors Jon Voight and American
born Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the
goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. In an
article in Vogue (2004) she stated that her mother is from Chicago.
At the Premiere Magazine Women in Hollywood Awards she said
her mom was born in a bowling alley. She has stated that because of
her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie's
grandparents were French Canadian. Her mother also studied with Lee
Strasberg himself. She is of Czech, French-Canadian, English, and
Iroquois descent. As a child she dreamed of becoming a funeral
director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the
age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she
enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing
Gia, she did not complete her studies. On March 28, 1996 she married
British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the
movie Hackers. Jolie attended her wedding in black leather trousers
and a white shirt, which had her husband's name painted in her blood
on the back. Jolie and Miller divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie
then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, and
together they adopted a son from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton
Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001. Jolie and Thornton divorced
on May 27, 2003, and Jolie now has custody of Maddox. Jolie has been
long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was
attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In
the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that
she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with her
father, but that she did not hate him but that she realized that
...we only have so much energy in this life. Soon after, he
claimed that she has serious emotional problems on
Access Hollywood, and she legally dropped Voight as her last name,
taking Angelina Jolie as her legal name. In 2003,
Jolie published a collection of journals made during missions for
the UNHCR. Her proceeds from the book went to the UNHCR.Jolie has
been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission
for Refugees since 2001, and frequently travels to remote countries
to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations. In
2003, she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal
entries chronicling her early work with the U.N.. In a January 2005
interview with Reuters, Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being
committed enough in helping others, and stated that she gives
one-third of her income to charitable organizations. Jolie was also
one of the first celebrities to accept an invitation to be one of
the bearers of the Olympic Torch during the 2004 Olympic Games,
though she was ultimately unable to participate due to filming
commitments. In the fall of 2004, it was reported that Jolie has
started proceedings to adopt another child, this time from Russia.
However, no adoption ever took place. On March 8th, Jolie took part
in a Washington Press club luncheon. [1] It was there that she
announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and
Immigrant Children in Washington, D.C. It''s an organization that
provides free legal aid to children who prior to this had no legal
representation. Jolie donated $500,000 to the center which will help
keep it afloat for the first two years of its operation. At that
same conference she stated that she never intended to adopt a
Russian orphan boy. Jolie expressed a deep sadness at the media''s
exploitation of the child. Jolie stated that she was on business
through the United Nations and not looking for a child to adopt. She
also mentioned that her son wanted an African brother
because of his love of Africa and the work he knows she does in that
region. Around the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii-based
adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox,
was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa
fraud and money laundering charges. She had been falsifying records
of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children
she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or
bought from their birth families. There is no evidence that Maddox
was among them, although the investigation is continuing. Maddox
Jolie, as he is legally named, was naturalized as a United States
citizen some time ago, and there is no indication that that will be
rescinded. Besides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie also
worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles
and appeared in numerous music videos including those of Meat Loaf,
Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones. For several years prior to
mid 2005, Jolie did not have a hit movie. Several of her movies,
such as Alexander, Sky Captain, and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
were major box office disappointments although Jolie usually
received good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in the
successful animated film, Shark Tale. Nonetheless she remains one of
Hollywood's most in-demand actresses. In early 2005,
Jolie found herself at the center of a well-publicized Hollywood
scandal when she was accused of being the other woman in
the marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The
allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during
filming of the spy comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, something she
denies. In several interviews she has denied starting an affair with
Pitt. In an interview with Marie Claire magazine recently she stated
that she could never have a relationship with a married man because
she has seen what relationships like that did to her mother. Her
father has acknowledged that he cheated on Jolie's mom when they
were married. Jolie stated she could not, could not look
herself in the mirror if she had an affair with a married man.
Thanks to a mixture of generally good reviews and advance publicity
due to all the rumors, Mr. & Mrs. Smith opened in the No. 1
position at the box office after it was released in early June 2005,
providing Jolie with her first box-office success in several years.
In March 2005, Jolie was named the third sexiest woman in the world
by FHM magazine, from fifteen million votes worldwide.
Angelina on the cover of Men Style. Since taking on her goodwill
ambassador duties, Jolie has on numerous occasions made public
statements that she wants to quit acting and concentrate on her UN
work (for example, see Ireland On-Line in June 2005 [2]). However,
she has also stated that her work provides the income necessary for
her to continue traveling the world on behalf of the UN. Jolie
continues to balance the demands of being a movie star with that of
being a humanitarian, despite an apparently grueling schedule. On
June 7, 2005, the Associated Press wire service reported on Jolie
giving a presentation in Islamabad, Pakistan. That very same day,
she attended the premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in Los Angeles.
She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire, England, and owns
property in Cambodia, which she had to have demined. Angelina Jolie
spent the new year of 2005 by going abroad to film a documentary
called A Moment in the World. She called on several
actors and actresses to film in various locations around the world
at the same time for three minutes. This was done in order to
capture random moments that are happening across the world at the
same time. Some confusion has arisen between this project and the
independent endeavor A Moment on Earth, in which 60 filmmakers
around the world captured two separate moments on August 5th and
6th, 2004. No release dates for either project are known at this
time. In late June 2005, the New York Post reported a claim that
Jolie is pregnant, a report republished on June 30 by Britain''s Sky
TV, Sun Media Corporation in Canada, and the Asian Hindustan Times,
among others. Her publicists presently deny this report. On July 5,
2005, People magazine reported that Jolie was in the final stages of
adopting a baby girl, who was orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia,
through the agency Wide Horizons for Children. Jolie has named her
daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. A woman in London has been claiming
she is Zahara''s birth mother since August of 2005. There has been
no legal development regarding this claim. Ms. Jolie has contacted a
lawyer in London to look into the matter. Earlier in the summer
another woman came foward claiming to be the grandmother of Zahara.
That claim too proved to be false. On September 28th 2005 while
making an appearance to discuse American''s financial involvment
with fighting AIDS globally on CNN''s The Situation Room
with Wolf Blitzer Jolie stated that her daughter is a AIDS
orphan. By that she means her birth mother died from the
disease but her daughter does not have the disease. The birth father
of Zahara is not known. Her statement made it clear that the birth
mother is indeed dead. In late October of 2005 a Ethiopian judge
ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that Ms. Jolie would have
to file for re-adoption of her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. The
judge ruled that the woman claiming to be her mother is not the
birth mother. In September of 2005 Angelina Jolie was named the new
spokesperson for the clothing line St. John Knits starting in the
Spring/Fall 0f 2006. The deal with the clothing company includes the
startup of a charity headed by Ms. Jolie. The charity will focus on
children''s issues and causes. It has been reported but not comfired
that Angelina Jolie will also sit on the board of directors and have
stock in the company. The deal is also believed to be the biggest
celebrity clothing endorsement with the actress receiving 10-15
million dollars. Other celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow receive
something in the neighborhood of 5 million dollars to promote luxury
clothing and accessories. On October 24 Angelina Jolie attended the
First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orpahns Foundation.
While there she pledged to partner with WWO to treat children in
Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive.
AIDS is chronic and manageable, and does NOT have to kill any
longer, said Ms. Jolie. Ms. Jolie announced her plan to
support WWO''s Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
and pledged an initial grant. The gala helped the organization raise
$800,000. Dr. Jane Aronson, the organization's founder, and Ms.
Jolie first met through the adoption of her daughter Zahara and
Jolie credits the doctor with helping save her daughter's life.
The American magazine US Weekly, in reporting Jolie''s second
adoption, indicated erroneously that Jolie and Pitt had adopted the
girl together. When the magazine realized its error, the presses
were stopped and an apology issued to Jolie and Pitt; printing of
the issue resumed with the correction made, though a number of
copies with the error were still released to the public. Reportedly,
however, Pitt was present when Jolie signed the adoption papers. The
agency later said Brad Pitt was not present when Angelina Jolie
picked up her daughter. [3] In August 2005, Cambodia''s King Norodom
Sihamoni awarded Jolie a Cambodian citizenship for her conservation
work in the country. Speculation over the nature of Jolie and
Pitt''s relationship continued throughout the summer of 2005. On
August 22, the Calgary Herald ran a front-page story with a photo of
Jolie taken during a surprise visit she made to Calgary, Alberta a
couple of days earlier, accompanied by Zahara. Brad Pitt was at that
time filming a movie in Calgary, as was her father, Jon Voight. It
was later reported that Jolie and Pitt visited the Royal Tyrrell
Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta together, and CNN and
the Calgary Sun reported on September 22, 2005 that they visited
West Edmonton Mall together.[4] On September 30, the Calgary Sun
reported that Pitt and Jolie had rented a house together in the city
of Spruce Grove, Alberta, west of Edmonton where Pitt was filming
more scenes for his movie; the same issue printed a photograph of
the two actors (dubbed Brangelina ) leaving an Edmonton
grocery store. Tattoos</strong>
Angelina Jolie showing off her largest tattoo, a large tiger on her
backJolie''s inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much
media attention, and she infrequently adds or even changes existing
tattoos. She has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a
special meaning. Her tattoos include: the letter H (for her brother
James Haven) on the inside of her left wrist. A prayer
for the wild at heart, kept in cages (Tennessee Williams) on
her left forearm. a large prayer for her son Maddox on
her left shoulder which covers up the Chinese/Japanese death
tattoo. two pointy black tribals on the lower parts of
her back. Quod me nutrit me destruit (Latin for
What nourishes me destroys me ) several inches below her navel.
a tilted Latin cross on the lower left of her abdomen. a
large Asian tiger on her back. a dragon under the tiger.
XIII (number 13 in Roman numerals) on her left forearm.
Arabic for strength of will.
(العزيمة) on her right
forearm. know your rights just under her neck
between her shoulders. Lasered/Covered:</strong> the
dragon on her left arm (she has been lasering it for some months now
but we can still see some of it). Billy Bob , the name
of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, on her left arm.
a Chinese/Japanese character for courage now covered by the
Tennessee Williams quote. a Chinese/Japanese character
for death (死) now covered by a prayer for Maddox.
a tattoo both Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina had a copy of. It was
on her right forearm, now covered by the strength of will
tattoo. a dragon she got in Amsterdam while drunk, now
covered by the latin cross. a window on her lower back.
On Inside the Actors Studio, she explained that she covered this
tattoo, because, while she used to spend all of her time staring
through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of
the time. Jolie has gone on record as saying that a
positive effect resulting from the large number of tattoos on her
body is that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, filmmakers
have been forced to become more creative when plotting any nude or
love scenes involving her. Make-up has been used to cover up the
tattoos in productions such as the Tomb Raider movies, Alexander,
and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Other trivia</strong>
She has said that she is bisexual and once claimed to have been in
love with fashion model Jenny Shimizu, her co-star in the film
Foxfire. She is left-handed. Jolie once
described herself as most likely to sleep with a female fan .
She speaks French. The name Angelina actually means
Pretty Little Angel Eyes . Jolie in French means pretty
or lovely. She drives a black Ford truck.
She knows how to Tango. She has a pilot''s license.
She collects knives and has interest in mortuary science.
She was born at 9:09 a.m. in Los Angeles. She used to
own a pet rat snake--therefore, she had no problem shooting the
snake scene in Alexander. She claims to have a fondness
for Liverpool Football Club, having revealed that her baby son,
Maddox, only wants to play for Liverpool after he was
admitted to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool for treatment.
She has continually denied rumors of an incestuous relationship with
her brother, James Haven. During her acceptance speech for winning
the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award for Girl Interrupted
during the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie stated I''m so in love
with my brother which, combined with her affectionate behavior
towards her brother that night, sparked the rumors. On Inside the
Actor''s Studio she stated that she never had an incestuous
relationship with her brother, stating that the world is a lot
sicker than I thought, in reference to the conclusion everyone
jumped to. Also in an interview with People Magazine she and her
brother stated that being children of divorce they relied on each
other and because of that they hold on to each other, as a means of
emotional support. Jolie has starred in five student movies, all of
which were directed by her brother. In October 2005, The
Sun tabloid in Britain, as well as several American entertainment
news programs, reported that Jolie is in the running to appear with
her Lara Croft: Tomb Raider co-star Daniel Craig in the next James
Bond film, Casino Royale.
Filmography</strong>
Esquire, November 2004Lookin'' to Get Out (1982) Cyborg
2 (1993) Angela & Viril (1993) (short subject)
Alice & Viril (1993) (short subject) Without
Evidence (1995) Hackers (1995) Mojave Moon
(1996) Love Is All There Is (1996) Foxfire
(1996) Playing God (1997) Gia (1998)
Hell''s Kitchen (1998) Playing by Heart (1998)
Pushing Tin (1998) The Bone Collector (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999) Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Original Sin (2001)
Life or Something Like It (2002) Trading Women (2003)
(documentary) (narrator) Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The
Cradle of Life (2003) Beyond Borders (2003)
Taking Lives (2004) Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) The Fever
(2004) Alexander (2004) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
(2005) The Good Shepherd (2006) Beowulf
(2007) (voice)
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