Jolie in the media
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Jolie in the media
Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon Voight. At 7 she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career, Jolie decided not to use “Voight” as a stage name, because she wished to establish her own identity as an actress.[42] Jolie was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared "I'm so in love with my brother right now" which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked rumors in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors and said while appearing on Inside the Actors Studio “the world is a lot sicker than I thought”.[22]
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Children
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ChildrenOn March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie[14]). He was born on August 5 2001, as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent",[63] and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media; he was named the "cutest celebrity kid,"[64] and he is known for his mohawk hairstyle.On July 6, 2005, Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), who was orphaned by AIDS. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005 as Tena Adam.[65] Jolie picked her up at a Wide Horizo
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Tattoos
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TattoosJolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes.[83] Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. She frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning. Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos, among them a Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" which she got together with her mother, the Arabic phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me also destroys me),[84] and a Buddhist Pali prayer written in the Khmer script for her son Maddox.[85] She also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder indicating the birthplaces
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Humanitarian work
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Humanitarian workJolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. According to Jolie, "I discovered things about what's happening in the world... Cambodia was really eye opening for me."[43] Deeply affected by these experiences, she eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months she agreed to visit different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.[44] In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.[45] She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions a
Relationships
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RelationshipsOn March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers. She attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her groom's name painted in her blood on the back.[42] Jolie and Miller separated one year later and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."[21]She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, who she had met on the set of Pushing Tin, on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media.[42] Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked in Vogue about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took
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International success, 2001–present
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International success, 2001–presentAlthough highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."[30] The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide,[2] and started her reputation as a female action star.Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin, a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical fa
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Breakthrough, 1997–2000
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Breakthrough, 1997–2000Jolie's career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biopic George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy. The film was highly praised by critics and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for "Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV". She played the second wife of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John Frankenheimer.In 1998 Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, as the supermodel, Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part wit
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Early life and family
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Early life and familyBorn Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and the late Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, she is of Czechoslovakian and German descent,[4][5] and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part "Iroquois",[6][7] although Bertrand's alleged Native American ancestry was once disputed by Voight in an interview in 2001.[8]After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.[9] As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.[10] When she was 11, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Le
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Early work, 1993–1997
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Early work, 1993–1997Jolie began working as a fashion model at 14. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. She also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea") and Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"). At the age of 16 Jolie returned to theatre, and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".[10] Jolie as Kate Libby with her first husband Jonny Lee Miller in Hackers.Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low b
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Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchAngelina Jolie
Jolie at the premiere of Alexander in Cologne. Birth name Angelina Jolie Voight Born June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 32) Los Angeles, California, United States Spouse(s) Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999)Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003) Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress1999 Girl, Interrupted Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress - Mini-series1997 George WallaceBest Actress - Mini-series1998 GiaBest Supporting Actress - Motion Picture1999 Girl, Interrupted Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Actress - Mini-series/TV Movie1998 GiaBest Supporting Actress - Motion Picture1999 Girl, Interrupted Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women[1] and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Award
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ANGELINA JOLIE BIOGRAPHY
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ANGELINA JOLIE BIOGRAPHYBorn: 4 June 1975Where: Los Angeles, California, USAAwards: Won 1 Oscar and 3 Golden GlobesHeight: 5' 7"Filmography: The Complete ListWhile most Hollywood stars do everything they can to appear cool, professional and squeaky-clean, diligently concealing all their nasty little secrets, Angelina Jolie appears wholly unconcerned by controversy. Ever-keen to talk about her breakdowns, her disorders, her fantasies and her world-famous penchant for S&M, many would say she's built a career on titillating public confession. But she's also an increasingly fine and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted being only the first in a string of prestigious honours. Onscreen, as in bed, she is a risk-taker, and perhaps deserves to be seen as the spiritual sister of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange. Beyond this, her international efforts on behalf of children and refugees have made her the most public-minded superstar since Audrey Hepburn.She was bor
11 years of Lara Croft
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11 years of Lara Croft
Eleven years and seven video games later, fabled archeologist Lara Croft is still hiking the world's roughest terrain in search of something.
Jolie accused of being Anti-American
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Jolie accused
of being Anti-American
Angelina Jolie was stunned when she was accused of being anti-American because she was speaking out for Afghan people during the war on terror
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Angelina's Mighty Mission
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Angelina's Mighty
Mission
CAP D'ANTIBES, France - Even with her nuclear cloud of celebrity, Angelina Jolie has no illusions that she can transform Hollywood into a factory of issue movies.
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Show business royalty: It's a family affair
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Show business royalty
: It's a family affairNext week, the teen sleuth film "Nancy Drew" will debut in hundreds of theaters across the United States
See more Quotes and Vote
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See more Quotes
and VoteTV's funniest lines from May 29 to June 4. Read the expanded online-only version of our favorite quips, then vote for the best quote ''They got the name 300 by measuring how gay it was on a scale from 1 to
Acress Jolie 'a foreign policy leader'
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Acress Jolie
'a foreign policy leader'Angelina Jolie joined "the next generation of foreign policy leaders" today, a leading US think-tank said
Angelina Jolie, Anti-American? Do-Gooder Angelina Jolie Accused
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Angelina Jolie
, Anti-American
? Do-Gooder Angelina Jolie
AccusedAngelina Jolie was stunned when she was accused of being anti-American because she was speaking out for Afghan people during the war on terror
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Angelina Jolie Still Shutting Out Dad Jon Voight From Kids
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Angelina Jolie
Still Shutting Out Dad Jon Voight
From KidsAngelina Jolie
has said that she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work, and for being an actress
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Paul Sculfor & Jennifer Aniston? Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt - Memories
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Paul Sculfor & Jennifer Aniston
? Angelina
Jolie
, Brad Pitt
- Memories“They arrived at 8pm and the guy caressed Jennifer's back as they waited for a table ... they took three hours to eat dinner, drinking San Pellegrino, talking constantly and holding hands over the table. Jennifer only had eyes for him.”Paul Sculfor is the new handsome mystery man Jennifer Aniston was spotted holding hands with
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Angelina Jolie Still Shutting Out Dad Jon Voight From Kids only at celebritygossipandchat.com
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Angelina Jolie
Still Shutting Out Dad Jon Voight
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has said that she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian slogging, and for rat race an
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biography
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Birth NameAngelina JolieBirth Date06/04/1975BirthplaceLos Angeles, CaliforniaCredits24 Movies, 3 TV appearances, 12 awardsView AllFamilyHusband: Jonny Lee MillerBritish; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored have dating in 2002 and again in 2004Son: Pax Thien Jolieadopted by 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-adoptBrother: James Havenborn c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student filmsDaughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pittborn 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: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pittborn January 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 200
Birth Name
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Birth NameAngelina JolieBirth Date06/04/1975BirthplaceLos Angeles, CaliforniaCredits24 Movies, 3 TV appearances, 12 awardsView AllFamilyHusband: Jonny Lee MillerBritish; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored have dating in 2002 and again in 2004Son: Pax Thien Jolieadopted by 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-adoptBrother: James Havenborn c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student filmsDaughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pittborn 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: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pittborn January 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 200
why is she famous?
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why is she famous? Angelina Jolie has starred in thrillers like The Bone Collector and Taking Lives, blockbusters such as Gone in Sixty Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and bombs like Alexander. She's also famous for her headlining way of life. From her well-documented marriage to Billy Bob Thornton to her highly publicized romance with Brad Pitt, Angelina is famous for both her personal and professional lives.
why we like her?
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why we like her? She's beautiful, eccentric and highly intelligent. She questions what goes on around her and she's not afraid to be sexual. On top of all that, she's a great actress and humanitarian.
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