Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actor and director popular for her sexual edginess, sex appeal, and humanitarian work. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her childhood, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was the mental patient in Girl, interrupted (1999). After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, she attended Beverly Hills High School. Then she went on to study acting at New York University. Alongside acting in theatre productions, she modeled and appeared in music videos.Jolie's first big film part was in Hackers (1995) which was the filming process, she got married to her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996 divorced in 1999). The film was not well-loved, as were a number of other movies. However, in 1997 Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the TV film George Wallace, and she was later awarded the Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. She played the role of the supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO film Gia in 1999. The performance won her many awards, including the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. In the following year, she married Thornton (divorced in 2003). Jolie played the carjacker's girlfriend (Nicolas Cage), in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000. Later, she adopted her British accent and began learning street fighting and kickboxing to take on the roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 2003. In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander as well as starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films failed at the box office, however Jolie had a great time in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She played a woman who pretended to play an assassin. While working on the film she was introduced to Brad Pitt who became her co-star.