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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported.<ref name="Jolie named sexiest person ever"/> She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.

Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (199Image:Cool.gif, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of videogame heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results">Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results. Box Office Mojo. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention.<ref name="The Brangelina fever">The Brangelina fever. Reuters. February 6, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as a biological daughter, Shiloh. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.

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Early life and family

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer in 2007. Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, she is of Slovak and German descent,<ref>Voight, Jon. Will the real Jon Voight please stand up?. Interview. May 1, 2006. Accessed May 3, 2007.</ref><ref>Joseph Kamp. New York Times. June 20, 1944. p. 19.</ref> and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois,<ref>Nevin, Charles. The glamour of Swindon: Billie Piper, Melinda. The Independent. July 18, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref><ref name="Wild at heart">Sessums, Kevin. Wild at heart. Allure. November 2004. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> although Bertrand's alleged Native American ancestry was once disputed by Voight.<ref>Telegraph interview with Jon Voight. Telegraph. October 2, 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.<ref name="Angelina Jolie: Body Beautiful">Van Meter, Jonathan. Angelina Jolie: Body Beautiful. Vogue. April 2002. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Biography">Wills, Dominic. Angelina Jolie Biography. Tiscali. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> When she was 11, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Biography"/> Her self esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. As her despondency grew, she started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."<ref>Paula Zahn Now. CNN Transcripts. June 9, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> At 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director.<ref>Heath, Chris. Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic. Rolling Stone. July 2001. Retrieved 8 April 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Her self-loathing led her to embark on a rebellious period in her life; she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Biography"/> Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home.<ref name="Angelina Jolie: Body Beautiful"/> She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".<ref>Strejcek, Ginger. Attracting the Eyes of the World. Season Magazine. Summer 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted, and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002.<ref name="Angelina Jolie's Name Interrupted">Grossberg, Josh. Angelina Jolie's Name Interrupted. E! Online. September 17, 2002. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father, and said, "My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned." She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight.<ref>Schruers, Fred. Angelina Jolie. Premiere Magazine. October 2004. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

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Early work, 1993–1997

Jolie began working as a fashion model at 14. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"), and The Lemonheads ("It's About Time"). At the age of 16, Jolie returned to theatre, and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".<ref name="Angelina Jolie Biography"/>

Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Following several undistinguished projects she starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight."<ref>Maslin, Janet. Hackers - Review. The New York Times. September 15, 1995. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.<ref>Brandt, Andrew. How Hollywood portrays hackers. PC World. May 4, 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

She appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon she was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. In 1996, she also played Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolie's performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."<ref>Mathews, Jack. Movie Review - Foxfire. The Los Angeles Times. August 23, 1996. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a film portraying a famed L.A. surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie’s character, Claire. The movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is."<ref>Ebert, Roger. Reviews: Playing God. Chicago Sun-Times. October 17, 1997. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the West, and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year she also played a stripper in the Rolling Stones music video for the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?"

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Breakthrough, 1997–2000

Jolie's career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biopic George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy. The film was highly praised by critics and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for "Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV". She played the second wife of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John Frankenheimer.

In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO's Gia as supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed."<ref>Vance, Vanessa. Gia (199 Image:Cool.gif . Reel.com. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting Jolie reportedly preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she wouldn't be able to phone him. "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"<ref name="Angelina Jolie interviews featuring Jonny Lee Miller">Angelina Jolie interviews featuring Jonny Lee Miller. JonnyLeeMiller.co.uk. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Following Gia, Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period of time, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give". She enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes. She described it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors Studio.<ref name="Inside the Actors Studio">Inside the Actors Studio, Episode 169. Bravo. June 5, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie returned to film as Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen, and later that year was part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe and Jon Stewart in Playing by Heart. The drama tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters, with Jolie playing a young club-scene hipster, Joan. The film received predominantly positive reviews and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."<ref>Stack, Peter. `Heart' Barely Misses a Beat. San Francisco Chronicle. January 22, 1999. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award by the National Board of Review.

In 1999, she starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, about two air traffic controllers who engage in macho conflict, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Jolie played Thornton's seductive wife Mary Bell. The film received a lukewarm reception from critics and Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."<ref>Howe, Desson. 'Pushing Tin'. Washington Post. April 23, 1999. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector, an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide,<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/> but was a critical failure; the Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."<ref>Lawson, Terry. The Bone Collector. Detroit Free Press. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie next took the supporting role of Lisa Rowe alongside Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted. While the lead role of the film was Ryder's character, and was hoped to be a comeback for Ryder, the film instead became the "welcome-to-Hollywood coronation" for Jolie.<ref>IMDb Movie of the Day. IMDb. March 7, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation"<ref>Levy, Emanuel. Variety.com - Reviews - Girl, Interrupted. Variety. December 10, 1999. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and Roger Ebert wrote about her performance: Modèle:Cquote

In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of car-thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, and the Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."<ref>Hunter, Stephen. 'Gone in 60 Seconds': Lost in the Exhaust. Washington Post. June 9, 2000. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She later explained that the film was a welcome relief after the heavy role of Lisa Rowe, and it became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/>

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International success, 2001–present

Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."<ref>Gonzalez, Ed. Film Review - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Slant Magazine. 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007. </ref> The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide,<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/> and launched her global reputation as a female action star.

Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin, a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline."<ref>Mitchell, Elvis. Original Sin - Review. The New York Times. August 3, 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In 2002, she played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like It, a film about an ambitious TV reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."<ref>Clinton, Paul. Jolie shines in up-and-down 'Life'. CNN. April 25, 2002. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/> Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."<ref>Turan, Kenneth. "Beyond Borders" turns out to be an unreal film about a too-real situation. Los Angeles Times. October 24, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives, as Illeana Scott, an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour."<ref>Honeycutt, Kirk. Taking Lives. The Hollywood Reporter. March 15, 2004. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She also provided the voice of Lola, an angelfish in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale; the cast included Will Smith, Martin Scorsese, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black and Robert De Niro. Also in 2004, Jolie had a brief appearance as Franky in Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film shot with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen. Jolie then played Olympias in Alexander (2004), Oliver Stone’s biopic about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander’s homosexuality,<ref>Stone blames 'moral fundamentalism' for US box office flop. The Guardian. January 6, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/>

Jolie's only movie of 2005, the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is also her biggest commercial success to date. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."<ref>Covert, Colin. Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Minneapolis Star Tribune. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> The movie earned over $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.<ref name="Angelina Jolie Movie Box Office Results"/>

Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Jolie co-starred as Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected wife who becomes increasingly discontented by the effects of his work. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."<ref>Phillips, Michael. Movie review: 'The Good Shepherd'. Chicago Tribune. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller. The film is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.<ref>Angelina Jolie screens her film at the Tribeca Film Festival. EiTB24. April 29, 2007. Accessed May 22, 2007.</ref> Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The picture is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent."<ref>Bennett, Ray. Review: 'A Mighty Heart'. The Hollywood Reporter. May 21, 2007. Accessed May 22, 2007.</ref> The film earned her a fourth Golden Globe and her third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Jolie also played Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' animated epic Beowulf (2007) which was created through the motion capture technique.

Her confirmed future projects include the action film Wanted, based on a graphic novel by Mark Millar, as well as the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda. Jolie was also cast as the lead in Clint Eastwood's upcoming drama The Changeling.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie">WENN. News for Angelina Jolie. IMDb. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

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Humanitarian work

Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. Deeply affected by these experiences, she eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months she agreed to visit different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.<ref name="Angelina Jolie named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for refugees">UNHCR. Angelina Jolie named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for refugees, UNHCR.org. August 23, 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.<ref>UNHCR. Angelina Jolie responds to UNHCR emergency appeal. UNHCR.org. September 27, 2001. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.<ref name="Angelina Jolie named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for refugees"/> Impressed by her interest and devotion in the subject, UNHCR named her a Goodwill Ambassador on August 27 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.<ref name="Bad Girl Interrupted">Swibel, Matthew. Bad Girl Interrupted. Forbes. June 12, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In a press conference Jolie explained her motives for joining the refugee agency: Modèle:Cquote

During her first three years as Goodwill Ambassador Jolie concentrated her efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) all around the world. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”<ref>UNHCR. Interview with Angelina Jolie. UNHCR.org. October 21, 2002. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In 2002, Jolie visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador to take a closer look at the “Western Hemisphere's most severe humanitarian crisis”.<ref>UNHCR. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie ends Ecuador mission. UNHCR.org. June 10, 2002 Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie later went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. She also met with Angolan refugees while filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.

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Jolie with Colin Powell in Washington, D.C., June 2004.

In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where she traveled to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and she paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka. She later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to North Caucasus. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders in October 2003 she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions (2001-2002). During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she asked to visit Iraqi refugees in Jordan's remote eastern desert and later that month she went to Egypt to meet Sudanese refugees.

On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizona in 2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. With the humanitarian situation in Sudan worsening, she flew to Chad in June 2004, paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's Darfur region. Four months later she returned to the region, this time going directly into West Darfur. Also in 2004, Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays, she visited UNHCR's regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.

In 2005, Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghan refugees, and she also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; she returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt during the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the October 8 Kashmir earthquake. In 2006, Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean, and while filming A Mighty Heart in India, Jolie met with Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi. She spent Christmas Day 2006 with Colombian refugees in San José, Costa Rica where she handed out presents. In 2007, Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from Darfur; Jolie and Pitt subsequently donated $1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfur.<ref>UNHCR. Jolie-Pitt Foundation donates US$1 million to groups working in Darfur. Reuters AlertNet . May 10, 2007. Accessed May 11, 2007.</ref> Jolie also made her first visit to Syria and Iraq, where she met with Iraqi refugees as well as multi-national forces and U.S. troops.

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Jolie and Condoleezza Rice at World Refugee Day 2005.

With increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She regularly attends World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with congressmen and senators at least 20 times from 2003.<ref name="Bad Girl Interrupted"/> She explained in Forbes: Modèle:Cquote In 2005, Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon, where she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.<ref>UNHCR. Angelina Jolie launches centre for unaccompanied children. UNHCR.org. March 9, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie also pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in the Third World.<ref name="Bad Girl Interrupted"/> In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using the public’s interest in her to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. She filmed a MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on a trip to a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. There, Sachs's United Nations Millennium Project team is working with locals to end poverty, hunger and disease. In 2006, Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.<ref>Green, Mary. Brad & Angelina Start Charitable Group. People. September 20, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Jolie also co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, founded at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006, which helps fund education programs for children affected by conflict.

Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. On October 24, 2003 she was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.<ref>Jolie given Cambodian citizenship. BBC News. August 12, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> On October 12, 2005, Jolie was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.<ref>Jolie honoured for refugee role. BBC News. October 12, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In June 2007, Jolie joined the Council on Foreign Relations, when the bipartisan think tank officially approved her membership nomination.<ref>Green, Mary. Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign Relations. People. June 07, 2007. Accessed July 17, 2007.</ref>

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Relationships

On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers. She attended her wedding in black leather pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/> Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."<ref name="Angelina Jolie interviews featuring Jonny Lee Miller"/>

She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, whom she had met on the set of Pushing Tin, on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/> Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked in Vogue about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."<ref name="Learning To Fly">Van Meter, Jonathan. Learning To Fly. Vogue. March 2004. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her."<ref>'Tis the Season to Be Jolie. Girlfriends Magazine. December 1997.</ref> In 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"<ref name="Angelina, saint vs. sinner">Kesner, Julian & Megna Michelle. Angelina, saint vs. sinner. New York Daily News. February 2, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith; however, she has denied this in several interviews. In an interview in 2005, she explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."<ref name="Angelina, saint vs. sinner"/>

While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; they showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/>

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Children

On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie<ref name="Angelina Jolie's Name Interrupted"/>). He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia, and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent",<ref name="Jolie at peace with kids' names">Thomas, Karen. Jolie at peace with kids' names. USA Today. March 15, 2007. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media.<ref>BANG Media International. Maddox cutest kid. Life Style Extra. July 20, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005; her original name has been reported as either Tena Adam<ref>Bell, John. Angelina's Baby Zahara: Her touching family story. Yahoo Movies. July 14, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> or Yemsrach.<ref name=pflanz1120>Pflanz, Mike. Angelina Jolie's adopted baby 'result of rape'. Telegraph. November 20, 2007. Accessed November 21, 2007.</ref> Jolie picked her up at a Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition. Zahara's name means "flower" in Swahili, the second name "Marley" comes from late Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley.<ref name="Jolie at peace with kids' names"/> In 2007, media outlets reported Zahara's biological mother, Mentewabe Dawit, was still alive and wanted her daughter back, but she later denied these reports, saying she thought Zahara was a "very fortunate human being to be adopted by a world famous lady".<ref name=pflanz1120 />

Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and collected her daughter;<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/> later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together.<ref>Anderson Cooper 360 - Angelina Jolie: Her Mission and Motherhood. CNN Transcripts. June 20, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> In December 2005 it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, and on January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".<ref>Judge says Jolie's children can take Pitt's name. Associated Press. 19 January 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia by a scheduled caesarean section. Shiloh, according to a long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one".<ref name="Jolie at peace with kids' names"/> Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport,<ref>Roschlau, Frauke. Little Shiloh will be Namibian: Angelina and Brad. Yahoo News. June 7, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most expensive celebrity image of all time.<ref> Picture this: $10m - Record for rights to Brangelina baby snaps. New York Post. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.<ref>NYC Wax Museum Shows Off Jolie-Pitt Baby. USA Today. July 27, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, who was born on November 29 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang.<ref name="Jolie sorry to throw media spotlight on adopted boy">AFP. Jolie sorry to throw media spotlight on adopted boy. National Nine News. March 17, 2007. Accessed April 21, 2007.</ref> Jolie collected the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.<ref>Angelina Jolie adopts Vietnam boy. BBC News. March 15, 2007. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> His new name is a combination of the Latin word for "peace" and the Vietnamese word for "sky" or "heaven."<ref name="Jolie at peace with kids' names"/> Jolie revealed that his first name, Pax, was suggested by her mother before her death.<ref>Norman, Pete. Angelina Jolie: Brad and I May Want Up to 14 Kids. People. June 15, 2007. Accessed July 17, 2007.</ref>

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Jolie in the media

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Jolie at a photo op in Washington, D.C.

Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon Voight. At 7 she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career, Jolie decided not to use “Voight” as a stage name, because she wished to establish her own identity as an actress.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/> Jolie was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared, "I'm so in love with my brother right now", which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked rumors in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors vehemently, and Jolie and Haven later explained in interviews that after their parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.<ref name="News for Angelina Jolie"/>

Jolie is noted as "the one A-list celebrity without a publicist",<ref name="Angelina, saint vs. sinner"/> and she quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since she presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, discussing her love life and her interest in BDSM openly,<ref name="Wild at heart"/> and once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan".<ref name="Angelina, saint vs. sinner"/> As one of her most distinctive physical features, Jolie's lips have attracted notable media attention and she has been described as "the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking cosmetic surgery.<ref>AAP. Everyone wants to look like Jolie. The Sydney Morning Herald . April 12, 2007. Accessed April 21, 2007.</ref> She also created headlines with her much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As she took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador she started to use her celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide. Jolie has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and she has a private pilot license and an instrument rating.<ref>Norman, Pete. Angelina Jolie Taking a Year Off Work. People. May 22, 2007. Accessed July 17, 2007.</ref> The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but she said that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of his culture. Jolie has not stated definitively whether or not she believes in God. When asked in 2000 if there was a God, she said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."<ref>Thompson, Stephen. Is there a God?. The A.V. Club. September 6, 2000. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed her pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina fever".<ref name="The Brangelina fever"/> Trying to avoid the media attention, the couple went to Namibia for the birth of “the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ”, as it had been described.<ref>Leonard, Terry. Namibia Shielding Pitt and Jolie. Associated Press. May 25, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score, in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31 % of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 she was familiar to 81 % of Americans.<ref name="Bad Girl Interrupted"/> In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide.<ref>ACNielsen. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt top the charts, as favourite celebrity endorsers. Agency Facts. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Also in 2006, Jolie was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time,<ref>Brown, Malloch. The Time 100. Time. April 30, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and she was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People.<ref name="Most Beautiful">Most Beautiful People of 2006. People. April 26, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> On Forbes Magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list, Jolie was ranked at No. 35 in 2006,<ref>The Celebrity 100. Forbes. June 15, 2006. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and No. 14 in 2007.<ref>The Celebrity 100. Forbes. June 14, 2007. Accessed July 17, 2007.</ref> In February 2007, she was voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols.<ref name="Jolie named sexiest person ever">Jolie named 'sexiest person ever'. BBC News. February 24, 2007. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref>

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Tattoos

Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes.<ref>Kirkland, Bruce. The new Angelina Jolie. Jam! Showbiz. October 19, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos, among them the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", which she got together with her mother, the Arabic phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me destroys me),<ref>Thomas, Karen. Angelina Jolie, tattoo diarist. USA Today. July 7, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer and Pali scripts for her son Maddox.<ref>Jolie adds Thai tattoo. BBC News. April 24, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2007.</ref> She also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her upper left arm indicating the birthplaces of her children.<ref>Angelina Jolie tattoo secret. The Daily Telegraph. May 23, 2007. Accessed May 28, 2007.</ref> Over time she covered or lasered several of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死), and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.<ref name="Inside the Actors Studio"/>

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Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1982	Lookin' to Get Out	Tosh
1993	Cyborg 2	Casella "Cash" Reese
1995	Hackers	Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
1996	Mojave Moon	Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
	Love Is All There Is	Gina Malacici
	Foxfire	Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
1997	Playing God	Claire
	True Women (TV)	Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
	George Wallace (TV)	Cornelia Wallace
1998	Gia (TV)	Gia Marie Carangi
	Hell's Kitchen	Gloria McNeary
	Playing by Heart	Joan
	Pushing Tin	Mary Bell
1999	The Bone Collector	Amelia Donaghy
1999	Girl, Interrupted	Lisa Rowe
2000	Gone in Sixty Seconds	Sara 'Sway' Wayland
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Lara Croft
2001	Original Sin	Julia Russell/Bonnie Castle
2002	Life or Something Like It	Lanie Kerrigan
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Lara Croft
2003	Beyond Borders	Sarah Jordan
2004	Taking Lives	Illeana Scott
	Shark Tale	Lola (voice)
	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Franky
	Alexander	Olympias
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Jane Smith
2006	The Good Shepherd	Clover Wilson
2007	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl
2007	Beowulf	Grendel's mother
2008	Wanted	Fox
	Kung Fu Panda	Master Tigress (voice)
	The Changeling

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Awards

Year	Group	Award	Result	Film
1998	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Nominated	George Wallace
	Golden Globes	Best Supporting Actress - Series/Miniseries/TV Movie	Won	George Wallace
	National Board of Review	Breakthrough Performance - Female	Won	Playing by Heart
	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Nominated	Gia
1999	Golden Globes	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	Won
1999	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries	Won
2000	Golden Globes	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Won	Girl, Interrupted
	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role	Won
	Academy Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Won
2008	Golden Globes	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama		A Mighty Heart
2008	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		A Mighty Heart