Is Angelina Jolie British?
Angelina Jolie was born in 1975, in California, into a family of actors. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007, and her father, Jon Voight, are both American actors. His brother, James Haven, is an actor and director. Angelina Jolie's parents divorced when she was only one year old. It was in New York, where she grew up alongside her mother and brother, that her passion for cinema was born. She takes acting lessons and her father plays her in his productions.
Her family moved to California in the late 1980s. She has rather negative memories of her teenage years in Beverly Hills. She is kicked out by her classmates, self-scarves herself and dresses in black. However, she began a modeling career with Finesse Model Management in the early 90s. She appeared in music videos, notably with Lenny Kravitz, before starring in films her brother made for college. In 1995, Angelina Jolie first appeared in a Hollywood production, "Hackers," where she met her first husband, English actor Jonny Lee Miller. They married the year after and divorced in 1999. For a while, the actress went on to star in films without much success, although her performances were often praised.
Until the film "A stolen life" which allows him to receive an Oscar for best supporting role in 1999. The recognition of the general public comes right at that time with the release of "Bone Collector", and "60 Secondes Chrono ". The same year, she married Billy Bob Thornton. She was chosen in 2001 to play the sultry Lara Croft in the video game adaptation "Tomb Raider". The shooting takes place in Cambodia: it will turn the life of the actress upside down. There, she adopts her first child, Maddox, and decides to get involved for a good cause. In 2003, she separated from her husband. The actress will therefore become rarer on set and more present on the pitch as a UN ambassador. In 2005, Angelina Jolie played Brad Pitt's wife in "Mr & Mrs Smith", a fiction that quickly meets reality as the two actors fall in love with each other. She adopted her first daughter, Zahara, in Ethiopia the same year. In early 2006, Brad Pitt legally became the adoptive father of his first two children. A few months later, Shiloh Nouvel, the couple's first biological child, was born in May 2006 in Namibia. Then, it is the turn of Vietnamese orphan Pax Thien to join the family. The "Brangelina" tribe grew with the arrival of twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline in July 2008.
Angelina Jolie is also involved in the big screen, starring in "Reasons of State" or "Unbeaten Heart", where she stars as the widow of journalist Daniel Pearl. In 2008, she lent her voice to the cartoon "Kung Fu Panda", which she would repeat in 2011. The same year, she was approached to play the role of a CIA agent in a production by Philip Noyce. This role initially proposed to Tom Cruise will be rewritten in the feminine and will give rise to "Salt". The actress also makes the choice of film more intimate and thus stars in the drama film "The Exchange", directed by Clint Eastwood. With this film, she received her second Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, she starred with Johnny Depp in the film "The Tourist", shot in Europe. The following year, she became a director with the film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" chronicling the war in Bosnia.
UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador, she uses her notoriety to highlight her humanitarian commitments. In 2013, she shot the second part of "Salt" but also a Walt Disney film as well as in Hawaii for a film called "Unbroken". In 2014, she was approached to play the role of Cleopatra in a film about the life of the Egyptian queen, directed by Ang Lee. Often cited among the most beautiful women in the world, known for her bisexuality and her tattoos, in 2013 she revealed that she had undergone a preventive mastectomy.
