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Angelina Jolie's acting career, humanitarian efforts - and more recently her relationship with Brad Pitt - have made headlines since the 1990s. In addition to millions of fans, her work and volatile personal life have earned her places on People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People" list, and with Brad Pitt on Time Magazine's 2006 "100 Power Couples" list. Born Angelina Jolie Voigt on June 4, 1975, Angelina is the daughter of actors John Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Following estrangement from her father in 2004, Angelina legally changed her name to Angelina Jolie.

Angelina's Film Career

Angelina has stated that she continues with her acting career only to fund her humanitarian works for the United Nations. However, she prepared for an acting career from the age of 11, attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, then Beverly Hills High School and later on the film school at New York University. Before her acting career got started, she worked as model, signing up with Finesse Model Management and modelling in the US and Europe.

Angelina's first main acting role was in the 1995 film Hackers, and she achieved her first critical success in TV film Gia, a biography of 1970-80s supermodel Gia Carangi, who in 1986 was one of the first women in the US to die of AIDS. For this role, Angelina won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe and Golden Satmifie awards, and received an Emmy nomination.

2008 - Atlas Shrugged (announced)
2007 - Beowulf Grendel's Mother (voice)
2006 - The Good Shepherd - Clover Wilson
2005 - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Jane Smith
2004 - Alexander - Olympias / Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Franky / Shark Tale - Lola (voice) / Taking Lives Illeana
2003 - Beyond Borders - Sarah Jordan / Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Lara Croft / Trading Women Narrator (documentary)
2002 - Life or Something Like It - Lanie Kerrigan
2001 - Original Sin - Julia Russell/-Bonnie Castle / Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Lara Croft
2000 - Gone in Sixty Seconds - Sara 'Sway' Wayland
1999 - Girl, Interrupted - Lisa Rowe (Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress) / The Bone Collector - Amelia Donaghy
1998 - Pushing Tin - Mary Bell / Playing by Heart - Joan / Hell's Kitchen Gloria McNeary / Gia - Gia Marie Carangi
1997 - True Women - Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods (TV)
1997 - Playing God - Claire
1996 - Foxfire - Margret 'Legs' Sadovsky / Love Is All There Is - Gina Malacici / Mojave Moon - Eleanor 'Elie' Rigby
1995 - Hackers Kate - "Acid Burn" Libby / Without Evidence - Jodie Swearingen
1993 - Alice & Viril Alice (short subject) / Angela & Viril Angela (short subject) / Cyborg 2 - Casella 'Cash' Reese
1982 - Lookin' to Get Out - Tosh

Love and Marriages

Angelina Jolie has been married twice: On March 28, 1996, she married Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor with whom she had co-starred in Hackers. The couple divorced on February 3, 1999 and Angelina married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000; they divorced on May 27, 2003.

Angelina has said many times that she is bisexual, and is reported to have had a longstanding, on-again, off-again affair with model Jenny Shimizu.

In early 2005, Angelina was once again in the news when she was named as being pivotal in the marriage breakdown of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. She subsequently claimed that she "could not look herself in the mirror" if she had an affair with a married man, because of the effects her father's admitted adultery had on her mother.

Angelina and Brad announced her pregnancy in January 2006, a few months after Brad legally adopted her two children, Maddox and Zahara. The couple are referred to in the tabloids as "Brangelina".

Humanitarian Work

In 2003, Angelina published Notes from My Travels, a collection of her journals, written during missions for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Proceeds from the book went to the UNHCR.

Angelina has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR since 2001 and frequently travels to developing countries to draw attention to the plight of people living in them.

In a Reuters Interview in 2005, Angelina criticized fellow actors and actresses for not making greater efforts to help others. She claimed she donates one-third of her income to charities.

On October 12, 2005, Angelina was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).

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