Who is Angelina Jolie, and what are some stunning photos of her?
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles. She was raised by her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who separated from her father, actor Jon Voight, in 1976. At the age of 11, when her family moved to Los Angeles, the young Angelina decided to become an actress and takes his first acting lessons. But the girl's adolescence is difficult. She self-mutilates and, mocked by her classmates for her looks, she ends up dropping out of acting class. She then decides to embark on modeling and also appears in many clips. At 16, she changed her mind and resumed her acting lessons, then began on screen alongside her father, with whom she had a complicated relationship.
After several appearances in films by her brother, director James Haven, it was with a low-budget film, Glass Shadow, in 1993, that the actress' career really took off. In 1995, she got her first leading role in the movie Hackers. Then with George Wallace in 1997 and Dream Woman in 1998, two critically acclaimed biographical films, Angelina Jolie's career took on new momentum. The actress, known for her many tattoos that force filmmakers to be creative during love scenes, reached the height of her fame with 60 seconds flat (2000) and her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). Propelled to the rank of international star, the sulphurous Angie has since established herself as one of the most famous and highest paid actresses in Hollywood. In 2000, she won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with A Stolen Life by James Mangold.
The actress then undertakes a radical change of image. The filming of Tomb Raider, in Cambodia, made her aware of humanitarian causes. In 2001, she became ambassador for the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) and led more than 40 missions in the field. She distinguished herself by traveling to conflict zones on several occasions, notably in Iraq, in the province of Darfur in Sudan and in Libya during the Arab revolutions of 2011. Her loyalty to the cause of refugees for more than ten years earned her to be appointed, in April 2012, UNHCR Special Envoy. An exceptional post which notably allows him to represent the UNHCR at the diplomatic level.
Angelina Jolie had her biggest commercial successes with the comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008). In 2008, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role for Michael Winterbottom's Undefeated Heart. She then played Christine Collins, the lead role in Clint Eastwood's film, L'Echange, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, the actress went to the other side of the camera and directed the film Au pays du sang et du miel, a lucid fresco on sexual abuse as a weapon of war and on racial purification. In 2015, she repeats the experience and directs Brad Pitt in the feature film Vue sur mer.
On the private side, Angelina Jolie married actor Jonny Lee Miller on March 28, 1996. But their story was cut short and their divorce was pronounced in February 1999. Angelina Jolie met actor Billy Bob Thornton on the set of the film Les Aiguilleurs (1999), and the wife in second marriage on May 5, 2000. The couple divorce three years later. In 2004, on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith, Angelina Jolie met Brad Pitt. The actor has an immediate crush. For her, he divorced actress Jennifer Aniston in October 2005, and adopted Maddox (born in August 2001) and Zahara (born in January 2005), children whom the actress had herself adopted.
The whole world calls them the Brangelina. The couple expands the tribe with the birth of their daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, on May 27, 2006, in Namibia and the adoption of a boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien (born in November 2003), in March 2007. July 12, 2008 , the actress gives birth to twins Knox and Vivienne, in Nice. Two years after their engagement, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get married in their property of the Miraval estate in the south of France, on August 23, 2014. In September 2016, Angelina Jolie files for divorce.
