Born: Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Job Titles: Actor, Model
Family
Brother: James Haven. Born c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student films
Daughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; father is Brad Pitt; first pictures of baby Shiloh were sold to People Magazine for a reported sum of $4.1 million
Daughter: Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt. Twin of Knox Leon; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt
Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt. Born Jan. 8, 2005; adopted July 2005, from an Ethiopian orphanage at six months; mother died of AIDS and father is unknown; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006
Father: Jon Voight. Separated from Jolie s mother when Angelina was one-year-old; estranged from father
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand. Born c. 1950; part-Iroquois; separated from Jolie s father when Angelina was one-year-old; died of cancer in 2007
Son: Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt. Twin of Vivienne Marcheline; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt
Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt. Adopted at seven months from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006
Son: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt. Adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam s adoption regulations don t allow unmarried couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption
Significant Others
Companion: Brad Pitt. Met while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005
Companion: Colin Farrell. Rumored to have dated for a brief period during the filming of Alexander (2004)
Husband: Billy Bob Thornton. acted together in Pushing Tin (1999); eloped to Las Vegas on May 5, 2000; Jolie has a tatoo on her arm that reads Billy Bob; reportedly split in June 2002; Jolie filed for divorce on July 17, 2002
Husband: Jonny Lee Miller. British; met during filming of Hackers ; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored to have dated again in 2002 and in 2004
Companion: Timothy Hutton. dated in 1998 and 1999; co-starred together in Playing God ; Jolie was reportedly tattooed with an H ; no longer together
Education
New York University, New York, NY, film
The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, NY
Milestones
1976 Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother
1980 Feature debut in Hal Ashby s Lookin to Get Out ; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982)
1986 At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC
1993 Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film Cyborg II: Glass Shadows
1995 First lead in a theatrical release, Hackers ; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
1996 Starred in the feature Foxfire
1997 Portrayed the politician s first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries George Wallace ; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress
1998 Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film Gia ; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress
1998 Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama Playing By Heart
1999 Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in The Bone Collector
1999 Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell s Pushing Tin
1999 Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted a drama based on the memoirs of a woman s two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
2000 Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in Gone in 60 Seconds
2001 Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in Original Sin
2002 Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2002 Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in Life or Something Like It
2003 Reprised her role as Lara Croft for Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2
2003 Starred opposite Clive Owen in Beyond Borders
2004 Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone s Alexander playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
2004 Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow
2004 Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller Taking Lives also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
2004 Voiced Lola in the animated feature Shark Tale
2005 Appeared in the MTV special The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
2005 Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
2006 Played a CIA agent s (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro s The Good Shepherd
2007 Made directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time
2007 Portrayed Grendel s mother in Robert Zemeckis big-budget film version of the epic poem Beowulf
2007 Starred in A Mighty Heart, as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress; also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress
2008 Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of Wanted
2008 Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (“Changeling”)
2008 Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star
2008 Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Star
2008 Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)
2008 Potrayed Christine Collins, a woman fighting for her missing son, in Clint Eastwood s drama Changeling
2008 Voiced a Master Tigress in the animated feature, Kung Fu Panda
2009 Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)
Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
Briefly worked as a professional model
Made stage debut in Room Service playing a German dominatrix
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