Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director best known for her sex appeal, edginess and humanitarian work. Her role as a supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted (1999) was a part she won in the Academy Award. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent most of her childhood in New York. She moved to Los Angeles when she was 11. After having attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years later, she was began her studies at Beverly Hills High School. She then studied acting at New York University. She also appeared in theatre productions, and was a model for music videos. It was during Hackers (1995) that Jolie first met Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor (married in 1996, divorced in 1999). Like many of the subsequent films, the film could not attract a crowd. Jolie was the segregationist wife of Alabama's governor, attracting the attention of many in 1997. The actress later won a Golden Globe Award. In 1998, she was an actress suffering from addiction issues in the HBO film Gia and it was a role that brought her numerous awards which included an Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After her Oscar-winning performance from Girl, Interrupted, Jolie appeared in Pushing Tin, a comedy featuring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and in 2003 she was divorced. In Gone in Sixty Seconds ((2000)) Jolie played Nicole Cage's girlfriend. She later took on the British accent, and learned combat sports and kickboxing to play the roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life (2004). In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office failures however Jolie made a splash in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) the film where she played an assassin pretending to be a typical housewife. While making the film she met Brad Pitt, who became her co-star.