The acting career of Angelina Jolie began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2. Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers. Angelina Jolie starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace and Gia, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted. Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, and since then has established herself as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Angelina Jolie has had her biggest commercial successes with the action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the animated film Kung Fu Panda.
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie currently 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, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Born in Los Angeles, California, Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her fathers side, Angelina Jolie is of Czechoslovakian and German descent, and on her mothers side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was not seriously Iroquois, and they merely said it to enhance his ex wifes exotic background.
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Angelina Jolie is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Angelina Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world and is noted for her work with refugees. Angelina Jolie has been cited as one of the most beautiful women and her off screen life is widely reported. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father in the film Lookin to Get Out.
Angelina Jolie is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Angelina Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world and is noted for her work with refugees. Angelina Jolie has been cited as one of the most beautiful women and her off screen life is widely reported. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father in the film Lookin to Get Out.
