Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (originally Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress and director famous for her sex appeal, edginess and humanitarian work. Jolie, the daughter and actor Jon Voight, was raised in New York. After her growing up, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she was the character of the mental patient in Girl, interrupted (1999). She was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years. She was then accepted into Beverly Hills High School. Later, she studied drama at New York University. Also, she was an actor in theatre productions. She also was a model and featured in music videos. Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller (1996 divorced 1999). The film didn't find an audience, which was the case for several subsequent films. Jolie was the segregationist spouse of Alabama's governor and garnered the attention of many in 1997. Jolie later won a Golden Globe Award. Jolie played a supermodel who struggles with drug addiction in the HBO movie Gia in 1999. This performance earned her numerous accolades, including an award of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred with John Cusack in Pushing Tin in 1999. In the following year, she tied the knot with Thornton (divorced in 2003). She was the girlfriend of an armed carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopting a British accent and learned street fighting and kickboxing to play the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She portrayed Alexander's mother in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) and starred alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City). Both films failed at the box office, however Jolie made a splash in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She played a woman who pretended to play an assassin. While making the film she met Brad Pitt who became her co-star.