Angelina Jolie Biography And Pictures

Angelina Jolie Biography

Date of Birth: 4 June 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA 
Birth Name: Angelina Jolie Voight 
Nickname: Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) 
Angelina Jolie Voight  is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.
Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassadorfor the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Angelina Jolie has been cited as the world’s “sexiest” and “most beautiful” woman, titles for which she received substantial media attention.

Angelina Jolie

Did you know…

• Angelina gave her Oscar, Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Critic Choice Award to her mother.
• Angelina regularly watched movies with her mother and that had inspired her interest in acting. She claims she was not influenced by her father.
• Angelina studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from age 11.
• In 2004, Angelina was made an honorary citizen of Cambodia by the Prime Minister of Cambodia because of her social work there.
• Angelina’s many tattoos includes a Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, a large black cross, an “H” on the inside of her wrist, the Tennessee Williams quote, “A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages,” on her left forearm, the words “Lady Croft” on an arm and the Latin phrase “Quod me nutrit me destruit” across her stomach.
• Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair.
• In April 2007, Angelina filed court papers to add Brad Pitt’s surname to that of her adopted son Pax.
• “Jolie” means “pretty” in French.
• Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16.
• She is of Czech and American descent on her father’s side and French and Haudenosaunee (Iroquian Indian) heritage on her mother’s side.

Angelina Jolie Biography

Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with theTomb Raider sequel The Cradle of Life (2003). She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008), which marked her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date,  and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.