Hollywood's leading actress and Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie (b. 4 June 1975 – ) is an Award-winning actress, movie director, humanitarian, and a global celebrity.
She rose to fame through her title role in the film "Lara Croft". In recent years, Jolie has moved into film production, acting as director, writer and producer. She has six children, three of whom are adopted.
She serves in a capacity as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. Angelina was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand were actors, which significantly influenced her early life. She enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute when she was eleven and performed in several theatre productions. This early training was essential to her philosophy of acting.
A significant component of this acting school is to stay in part for the duration of the filming – taking on the characteristics of her characters. She later studied film studies at New York University. Aged 16, she temporarily tried modelling and appeared in some music videos. However, this career did not take off.
Ironically, for someone who would later be cited as the world's 'most beautiful woman, Angelina had difficult periods in her childhood. She recounts being picked on by other children for being very thin and wearing glasses. More seriously, she had a difficult relationship with her father, Jon Voight. In her late teens, and early 20s she also suffered from depression and periods of self-harm. Looking back, she observed that she was "just being a young girl who was experimental, bold and a bit nutty… I was absolutely self-destructive. I think a lot of young people in this business lose their way. You don't know what is of value. You don't know where you are. And you know something's wrong because it isn't life as it actually is. It's like living in some warped reality." (Source: USA Today) Angelina credits her first adopted daughter for helping her to pull out of depression and a tendency to self-harm. Jolie recounts then when she saw her adopted daughter she knew she would have to live more responsibly for her benefit.
"I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again." In her teens, her acting career never really took off because her demeanour was often considered too 'dark' and 'punkish.' In 1993, she began her professional film career with her first major part in the sci-fi film 'Cyborg 2'. Several roles in smaller films followed with Jolie receiving critical praise, though the films did not go on to be major successes. In 1997, she received her first Golden Globe Award for her performance in 'George Wallace' (1997). She played the second wife of Alabama segregationist governor – George Wallace. In 1998, she starred in a biopic about Gia Carangi, a supermodel who struggled to deal with her fame and success – dying prematurely from AIDS as a result of sharing drug needles.
Jolie was praised for her performance; however, to perform the character she adopted 'method acting' and took on similar characteristics to the role she was playing. As a result, she became difficult to deal with, especially as there were some parallels with Jolie's own struggles with depression. In 1999, she starred alongside Denzel Washington in the successful film 'The Bone Collector' (1999). Also in that year, she played a woman who spent time in a psychiatric hospital in 'Girl Interrupted' (1999).
Her performance won her the triple crown of Golden Globe Award, the SAG and Academy Award for the best leading actress. Jolie was gaining a reputation for producing strong acting performances, and she became increasingly in demand. Her growing acting profile also led to increased media interest, especially because of her physical beauty and colourful life. In 2000, she was chosen to play the lead role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. This was by far her most successful film commercially, becoming one of the biggest grossing films of the year. The role involved considerable physical training to play the adventurous and athletic character.
(often said to be a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones. Humanitarian work Filming 'Lara Croft' in Cambodia caused Jolie to become more interested in humanitarian activities. She became an active participant in her role as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has travelled extensively to areas such as Darfur, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. In 2012, she was appointed Special Envoy to High Commissioner Antonia Guterres. Jolie says she puts a third of her salary into savings, a third for living expenses and gives the final third to charity.
Successful films include
Beowulf (2007) Jolie played shape-shifting seductress Grendel's mother
Wanted (2008) – an internationally successful action film
Kung Fu Panda (2008) Changelings – Clint Eastwood drama
Salt (2010) Maleficent (2014)
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