Angelina Jolie (prominent /dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-lee, born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, She has also claimed to be part Iroquois through her mother, although Voight has said that Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry,
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. She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began seriously a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie gain most fame after her representation of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and recognized herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the continuation Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). She unbreakable her reputation as a foremost action star with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008)—her biggest non- energetic commercial successes to date ,and received further significant approbation for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a selection for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has involved all-inclusive media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
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