Angelina Jolie, the 40 years of the biggest female star in Hollywood
He has two Oscars, an enviable career, a large family with one of the most desired men in the world and gives off the glamor of the great Hollywood divas, but Angelina Jolie, who turns 40 this June 4, knows that her power in the industry is just in its infancy.
"She has an incredible combination of beauty, intelligence and talent, a triple threat that makes her a member of a very exclusive club," Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst for Rentrak, a company specializing in digital audience measurement, told EFE.
"She has that rare ability to seemingly effortlessly navigate between her roles as mother, wife, activist, actress, director, screenwriter, producer, philanthropist ... And she shows great passion for all of those interests," Dergarabedian said, "which it has been reflected for years among audiences around the world. "
His first golden statuette came to him for "Girl, Interrupted" (1999) and, since then, he has not stopped growing on the big screen, either with action heroines (from "Lara Croft" to "Gone in Sixty Seconds", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "Wanted" or "Salt") or weaving stories closer to their humanitarian sensitivity ("Beyond Borders" and "A Mighty Heart").
However, his biggest hits at the box office came thanks to the field of animation (it is part of the "Kung Fu Panda" saga) and, above all, with "Maleficent", Disney's return to the universe of "Sleeping Beauty" with a version narrated from the point of view of the villain of the story.
That film brought in more than $ 750 million.
One of Jolie's great successes was surrounding herself with prestigious authors in projects such as "Alexander" (Oliver Stone), "The Good Shepherd" (Robert De Niro) or "Changeling" (Clint Eastwood, which gave him his second Oscar nomination ), of whom he took good note to launch into directing with "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in 2011.
The results finally came with "Unbroken" (2014), her second film as a director, nominated for three Hollywood Academy Awards and, above all, a huge success with audiences around the world with more than 160 million dollars. collection.
"Jolie has wisely managed to expand her horizons beyond interpretation," Phil Contrino, an analyst at the BoxOffice.com portal, told EFE.
"The success of 'Unbroken' puts her on a whole different level. She is now seen as someone who can attract viewers from both sides of the camera," added Contrino.
The results of that film put Jolie before endless opportunities and, in fact, the specialized press assures that the Marvel studio is interested in offering her one of her new superhero projects, specifically, that of "Captain Marvel."
In addition, in November her third behind-the-scenes project will be released, "By the Sea", where she shares scenes with her husband, Brad Pitt, in what will be their second film together after "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". the filming where they met and the first sparks began to jump between them.
But Angelina Jolie is much more than film and business.
The artist, known for her interest and support for humanitarian causes and her donations to non-governmental organizations, adopted three of her six children with Pitt (Maddox, Zahara and Pax) in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, respectively.
As a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she has traveled the world to promote organizations and activities focused on achieving social justice.
She has also been involved in major humanitarian crises and mass displacement of civilians with the intention of attracting the attention of public opinion.
These activities led her to win the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award - an honorary Oscar - in 2013 and to her speculation about a next stage in politics, something for which she claims to be "open."
Jolie recently made headlines when she announced, in May 2013, that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy for breast cancer, and last March, explaining that she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent breast cancer. illness that caused the death of his mother, grandmother and aunt.
On both occasions, she wanted to make her situation public so that "other women at risk know the options that exist."
She is the evolution of who was the "bad girl" of Hollywood in the late 90s.
Behind her are her flirtations with drugs, her sex scandals and her divorces from Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. The future will be whatever she wants it to be.
