Profile: Angelina Jolie
Full Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Birth Date: June 4, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 5' 8"
Education: Lee Strasberg Institute for 2 years, Beverly Hills High School, the MET Theatre Emsemble, and film classes at New York University
Quote: "Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."
Angelina Jolie Biography
Angelina Jolie was born to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand (the couple divorced shortly thereafter) and began her own acting career at age 5 alongside her Oscar-winning father in Lookin’ to Get Out (1980). The talented youngster enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at age 11, and continued her career into her teens with professional modelling and music video shoots. Already well-trained for the stage and screen, she followed up the Strasberg education with film studies at New York University and the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. She debuted on stage in Room Service during that time, and was directed by her brother, James Haven, in five student movies.
The still teenaged Jolie spent the next few years getting good reviews in good films of various quality. She shone in Cyborg II: Glass Shadows (1993), Hackers (1995), Foxfire (1996), Love Is All There Is (1996), Without Evidence (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Playing God (1997), George Wallace (TV - 1997 - for a Golden Globe win and an Emmy nomination), True Women (TV - 1997), Playing by Heart (1998 - for a National Board of Review Breakthrough Performance award), and Gia (TV - 1998 - for another Golden Globe, a Golden Satellite, a Screen Actors Guild award, and a second Emmy nomination). That year she married fellow actor, Jonny Lee Miller, and added unpredictability to her growing fame with her reported wedding outfit -- black rubber pants and Miller’s name in blood on the co-ordinating white shirt. The couple divorced a year later. Jolie just recently married Billy Bob Thornton and sports his name on her person in tattoo ink.
1999 brought Pushing Tin (1999), Hell’s Kitchen (1999), The Bone Collector (1999) and the much lauded Girl, Interrupted (1999 - for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors’ Guild award, a ShoWest award, and the big one: an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
The Oscar ceremony brought further notoriety to Jolie. Critics sneered at her gothic get-up and her gushing adoration for Haven -- when folks can’t fault your performances, they’ll get you for brotherly love.
Upcoming for the actor are the films Dancing In The Dark, Gone In 60 Seconds, Tomb Raider and Along Came A Spider. She will assuredly be busy for quite some time. At age 24, with the entertainment industry’s top awards on her mantel and stellar talent to spare, Jolie is a Hollywood legend in the making.
Angelina Jolie Filmography
Love and Honor (2004)--Catherine the Great
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2004)--Jane Smith
Alexander (2004)--Olympias
Shark Tale (2004) (post-production) (voice)--Lola
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)--Capt. Franky Cook
Beyond Borders (2003)--Sarah Jordan
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)--Lara Croft
Life or Something Like It (2002)--Lanie Kerigan
Original Sin (2001)--Julia Russel
Tomb Raider (2001)--Lady Lara Croft
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)--Sarah 'Sway' Wayland
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV)--Herself
Girl, Interrupted (1999)--Lisa Rowe
The Bone Collector (1999)--Amelia Donaghy
Pushing Tin (1999)--Mary Bell
Playing by Heart (1998)--Joan
Hell's Kitchen (1998)--Gloria McNeary
Gia (1998) (TV)--Gia Marie Carangi
Playing God (1997)--Claire
George Wallace (1997) (TV)--Cornelia Wallace
True Women (1997) (TV)--Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
Mojave Moon (1996)--Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
Love Is All There Is (1996)--Gina Malacici
Foxfire (1996)--Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
Without Evidence (1995)--Jodie Swearingen
Hackers (1995)--Kate Libby
Lookin' to Get Out (1982)--Tosh
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