Angelina Jolie - Angelina Jolie Biography, Photos, movies, News

When Jolie was a baby her father left the family. Jolie, her mother and her brother then moved to the state of New York. They returned to Los Angeles ten years later,and Angelina decided to enroll at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

In high school Angelina was teased by her classmates for her thin body and full lips and for wearing second hand clothes. She frequently cut wrists and wore only black clothes. When she was 14 she moved in with her first boyfriend and she quit acting classe, dreamed of a career as an undertaker. She rented an apartment near the home of her mother after breaking up with her boyfriend and continued her acting training. Jolie was not contact with her father. She removed the surname ‘Voight’ from her name in 2002. Her mother died in January 2007 at age 56 from ovarian cancer. Angelina was very close with her mother and her brother.

Jolie adopted her first child, seven month old Maddox Chicane, On March 10, 2002. Maddox was born August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia. Jolie was filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001, when she decided to start the adoption process. Jolie received full custody of Maddox, after separating from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

Angelina adopted a six month old baby girl, Zahara Marley, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was hospitalized because of dehydration and malnutrition shortly after arriving in the United States. Zahara’s biological mother, Mentewabe Dawit, wanted her daughter back, but denied the allegations and stated that Zahara had been lucky to be adopted by Jolie. Angelina Jolie was with Brad when she signed the adoption papers and picked up her daughter. They decided to adopt Zahara together. They requested to legally adopt Jolie’s two children in California 2006 and their surnames were formally changed to Jolie-Pitt.

Jolie gave birth by Caesarean section to daughter, Shiloh Nouvel on May 27, 2006, in Swakopmund, Namibia. Jolie and Pitt sold the first pictures of their new born to People magazine, and received more than $ 4.1 million.

Jolie adopted a three year old boy from Vietnam orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Pax Thien, on March 15, 2007.

Angelina Jolie confirmed that she was pregnant with twins at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. She gave birth by Caesarean section on July 12, 2008 to a boy, Knox Leon and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, in the Lenval hospital in Nice, France. The rights for the first pictures of Knox and Vivienne were sold to People and Hello! for $ 14 million, one of the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The proceeds went to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

During the filming of Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Angelina Jolie became aware of worldwide humanitarian crises. She contacted UNHCR, the refugee agency of the United Nations, to learn more about the international problem. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania. On August 27, 2001 Jolie was named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.

Angelina Jolie has visited centers for refugees and displaced persons in over 20 countries. In 2002 she visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador. Later that year Jolie visited various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. She also met with Angolan refugees while filming “Beyond Borders” in Namibia.

In 2003, Jolie went on a six-day mission to Tanzania where they visited camps for Congolese refugees and then spent a week with displaced people in Sri Lanka. Later that year she went on a four-day mission to Ciskaukasië in Russia. In conjunction with the release of the film “Beyond Borders,” she published “Notes from My Travels,” a collection of diary entries about her field missions in 2001 and 2002. During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003, she visited Iraqi refugees, and later that month she went to Egypt to meet Sudanese refugees.

During her first UN trip in 2004, Jolie visited asylum seekers in Arizona, United States. In June of that year she flew to Chad to visit refugees from the Darfur region in western Sudan. Four months later, she returned to the area for a visit to West Darfur. Later that year Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Thailand, and during a private stay in Lebanon during the Christmas holidays she visited UNHCR’s regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.

In 2005 Jolie visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan, during the trip, she met the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. In November she returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt to the witness the disastrous effects of the Kashmir earthquak. During the filming of “A Mighty Heart” in India in 2006, Jolie met with Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi. She spent Christmas Day with Colombian refugees from San Jose, Costa Rica where she handed out gifts. In 2007 Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day mission to evaluate the security situation for refugees from Darfur. Jolie and Pitt gave $ 1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfur after witnessing poor conditions.

Angelina Jolie is heavily involved in promoting humanitarian relief in politics. Since 2003 she regularly meets with members of the U.S. Congress to lobby for humanitarian affairs, and she was a driving force behind several bills to promote the situation of refugees and vulnerable children in third world countries. Jolie has attended the World Refugee Conference several times in Washington DC, and she was a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2005 and 2006. In 2007 she joined the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations.

1993-1997
After a brief career as a model, Jolie began her film career in 1993 with a starring role in the low-budget film “Cyborg 2.” Some other notable films from this period include her first Hollywood production role in “Hackers,” where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller, and “Foxfire,” where she sparked a relationship with co-star Jenny Shimizu.

1998-2000
In 1998, Jolie won a Golden Globe for her role in the biographical TV movie “George Wallace.” That same year, she played the tragic model Gia Marie Carangi in the biographical TV movie “Gia.” Critics praised Jolie’s performance as the heroin-addicted Carangi, and she won a second Golden Globe and her first Screen Actors Guild Award. Following “Gia,” Jolie moved to New York and temporarily stopped acting, feeling she “had no more to give.”

Jolie returned with “Playing by Heart,” an ensemble production that also starred Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson and Ryan Phillippe. Both the film and Jolie’s performance were well received. After Jolie appeared in the film “Pushing Tin” as the seductive wife of Billy Bob Thornton, she would carry her role into real life by marrying her co-star the very next year. Jolie then worked with Denzel Washington in the crime film “The Bone Collector.” The film had a turnover of $151 million worldwide, but received mixed reviews from critics.

In 1999, Jolie starred as the sociopathic Lisa Rowe in the biographical film “Girl, Interrupted.” Even though the film was meant as the comeback role for protagonist Winona Ryder, Jolie stole the show and marked a big breakthrough in her Hollywood career. In 2000, she won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and her first Academy Award for the supporting role. In the summer of that year, Jolie received her first blockbuster role in “Gone in 60 Seconds,” playing opposite Nicolas Cage. The film took $237 million internationally and was her most popular film to date.

2001-2004
Joile reached the status of international superstar with her role as video game heroine Lara Croft in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.” While Jolie was widely praised for her physical performance, the film received negative reviews from most critics. The film was nonetheless an international success with sales of $275 million and launched her global reputation as a female action star.

Jolie then appeared as the sensual but deceptive mail-order bride of Antonio Banderas in “Original Sin.” In 2002, she played an ambitious journalist whose world is turned upside down in “Life or Something Like It.” Both films received mixed reviews, but Jolie’s performances were once again well received by critics.

In 2003, Jolie reiterated her role as Lara Croft in “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.” The sequel, though not as lucrative as the original, had an international turnover of $156 million. Later that year, she appeared in “Beyond Borders,” a film about aid workers in Africa. The film reflected Jolie’s interest in charity work and development, but the film was critically and financially unsuccessful.

In 2004, Jolie appeared alongside Ethan Hawke as an FBI agent in the thriller “Taking Lives.” That same year, she also provided the voice of the fish Lola in the DreamWorks animated film “Shark Tale” and had a small role in the sci-fi adventure film “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.” She ended 2004 with the role of Olympias in “Alexander,” a biographical film about the life of Alexander the Great. The film was poorly attended in America but was an international success with sales of $139 million.

2005-Present
Jolie played in only one film in 2005 – the action comedy “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” where she met current partner Brad Pitt. The film, which tells the story of a bored couple who discover that they are both assassins, had a turnover of $478 million worldwide and was one of the biggest successes of that year. Jolie followed up in Robert De Niro’s “The Good Shepherd” as the neglected wife of a CIA agent played by Matt Damon.

In 2007, Jolie starred in the film “A Mighty Heart” as Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. Her performance gave Jolie her fourth Golden Globe nomination and third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. That same year, Jolie also played Grendel’s mother in the epic motion-capturing film “Beowulf.”

The following year, Jolie took on the role in the action movie “Wanted,” playing the assassin Fox alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. The film was well received critically and was an international success with sales of $342 million. She also provided the voice of Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie “Kung Fu Panda.” With a turnover of $632 million worldwide, “Kung Fu Panda” became Jolie’s most popular film to date. Later in 2008, Jolie appeared in Clint Eastwood’s truth-based drama “Changeling.” Jolie’s character in the film, Christine Collins, was reunited with her kidnapped son only to realize that the boy an impostor. Praised by critics, Jolie received for her role an Academy Award nomination, her fifth Golden Globe nomination and her fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Jolie decided to take an extended break from acting to raise her children and travel the world doing charity work in third-world countries. It was confirmed that Jolie would star as Cleopatra in the remake of “Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life,” based on the book by Stacy Schiff.

Salary

Salt(2010) $20,000,000

Wanted(2008) $15,000,000

Beowulf(2007) $8,000,000

A Mighty Heart(2007) $10,000,000

The Good Shepherd(2006) $10,000,000

Mr. & Mrs. Smith(2005) $10,000,000

Lara croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life(2003) $12,000,000

Lara croft: Tomb Raider(2001) $7,000,000

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List of Angelina Jolie's Tattoos

• The lower case letter "h" (for her brother James Haven) on the inside of her left wrist.
• "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" (Tennessee Williams) on her left forearm.
• "XIII" (number 13 in Roman numerals) on her left forearm.
• Longitude and latitude coordinates representing the locations where she adopted Maddox (N11° 33' 00" E104° 51' 00"), Zahara (N09° 02' 00" E038° 45' 00"), Pax (N10° 46' 00" E106° 41' 40") and where her and Brad Pitt's children were born at - Shilo (S22° 40' 26" E014° 31' 40") & twins Vivienne & Knox (N43° 41' 21" E07° 14' 28") on her left arm which cover up her "Billy Bob" tattoo.
• (Arabic for "strength of will") on her right forearm.
• "Quod me nutrit me destruit" (Latin for "What nourishes me also destroys me") several inches below her navel
• A tilted Latin cross on the lower left of her abdomen.
• "Know your rights" just under her neck between her shoulders.
• A prayer of Buddhist Sanskrit symbols for her son Maddox on her left shoulder which covers up the old Japanese "death" tattoo.
• A large Asian tiger on her back.
• A dragon under the tiger.
• Two pointy black tribal designs on the lower part of her back.
• The letter M on the palm of her hand for her deceased mother Marcheline Bertrand
• Small swirls around the Roman numerals on her left forearm

The cross tattoo covers the little dragon with the blue tongue she had done in Amsterdam. Next to it is a phrase in Latin: Quod me nutrit me destruit, meaning: What nourishes me, destroys me. Angelina Jolie had the cross tattoo done the day before she married Johnny Lee Miller in 1995. In her own words: It was all symbolic, and it was a good thing, nothing dark.

The tattoo on her left underarm is the Roman number 13. She had it done because she doesn't believe in superstitions. The Arabic script tattoo on Angelina Jolie's right arm means Determination. It covers up the abstract line tattoo she had done together with her ex Billy Bob Thornton.

There is some debate over the tattoo Angelina has on her left inner wrist, a lower case letter H. It is rumored that the H is for her former boyfriend, Timothy Hutton; Angelina, however, insists that it is there to remind her of James Haven, her brother.

Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality,exotic and sensual. Angelina Jolie is one of the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world.She is gifted actress, blessed with stunning good looks, has about a dozen tattoos. She will have the name of the man she loved tattooed on her, and  she doesn't hesitate to have it lasered off just as quickly.

"I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."

According to a Life & Style Weekly report, "famed celebrity tattoo artist Friday Jones - who once gave Angelina Jolie a tat in a very private place.

She spoke with the magazine. "I always thought we could have a more serene, spiritually driven approach to tattooing," Friday, who notes that Angelina was one of her inspirations for the posh-parlor concept, tells Life & Style. "I met Angie right around 2000. She was this edgy, avant-garde girl. She would pull up to the house and say, 'I'm jonesing for a tattoo - you have to tattoo me.' And we're up in the house in the Hollywood Hills, she has her little glass of wine, it's very calm. It's a good atmosphere to stretch out and feel like girls."

Angelina Jolie had the cross tattoo done the day before she married Johnny Lee Miller in 1995. In her own words: "It was all symbolic, and it was a good thing, nothing dark." One of her latest tattoos is on her inner thigh done... "Um, it's for Brad".

A list Angelina Jolie tattoos that have been lasered off or covered up.

A small window on her lower back. On Inside the Actors Studio, she explained that she covered this tattoo, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.

A dragon on her left arm.

"Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, on her left arm

A Japanese character for courage (勇) which matched a tattoo of her first husband Jonny Lee Miller, now covered by the Tennessee Williams quote.

A Japanese character for death (死), now covered by the prayer for her son.

An unidentified tattoo both Thornton & Jolie shared. It was on her right forearm, now covered by the "strength of will" tattoo.

A dragon she got in Amsterdam while drunk, now covered by the Latin cross.

All Angelina Jolie movies and TV Shows

Lookin' to Get Out (1982)

Alice & Viril (1993)

Cyborg 2 (1993)

Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II - Picture Show (Music Video 1994)

Without Evidence (1995)

Hackers (1995)

Love Is All There Is (1996)

Mojave Moon (1996)

Fox Fire (1996)

True Women (1997 Tv Movie

George Wallace (1997 Tv Movie)

Playing God (1997)

Gia (1998)

Angelina Jolie's Golden Globe winning performance as Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s. "Gia" is film based on Gia Carangi's tragic life, America's first supermodel, her downward spiral of drug abuse, her life from age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS. Angelina won her second Golden Globe Award with Gia.

Hell's Kitchen (1998)

Playing by Heart (1998)

Pushing Tin (1999)

The Bone Collector (1999)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

In "Girl interrupted" Angelina Jolie Academy Award winning performance as Lisa Rowe, a patient in a mental hospital in 1967. Winona Ryder is The lead character as teenager Susanna Kaysen who stays at a mental hospital for 18 months.

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

"Gone in 60 Seconds" is an American action film starring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi. Cage plays as the retired master car thief who must steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" adventure thrill film adapted from the Tomb Raider video game series. Starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts. A great action blockbuster.

Original Sin (2001)

Angelina Jolie stars as Julia Russell in this erotic thriller with Antonio Banderas (Luis Vargas). "Original Sin" is set in the late 19th century Cuba. Banderas is a wealthy Cuban businessman who seeks out an American wife and selects a mail order bride. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts.

Life or Something Like It (2002)

"Life or Something Like It" is a romantic comedy film focuses on television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie). She interviews a homeless man, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless. The film's tagline is "Destiny is what you make of it."

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

"Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" is a 2003 action film starring Angelina Jolie. British archaeologist Lara Croft is on a quest to save Pandoras box. It is a sequel to the 2001 Lara croft: Tomb Raider.

Beyond Borders (2003)

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. "Beyond Borders" is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two lovers. Clive Owen plays Dr. Nick Callahan. Drama film about aid workers. Tagline for the film was "In a place she didn't belong, among people she never knew, she found a way to make a difference".

Taking Lives (2004)

Angelina Jolie stars as Illeana Scott in "Taking Lives". A serial killer who takes on the identity of his victims in this psychological thriller. Film tagline "He would kill to be you."

Shark Tale (2004)

In "Shark Tale" Angelina is the voice of Lola. Young fish named Oscar falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss, to use the incident to their own advantage.A fine comedy film produced by Dream Works Animation.

The Fever (2004 film)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is a American pulp adventure science-fiction film. New York City is under attacks from giant flying robots. Reporter who is determined to find the solution to these happenings, she teams up with a pilot in search of their origin.

Alexander (2004)

"Alexander" is a 2004 epic film about the King of Macedonia Alexander the Great. Starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie as his mother Olympias.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

In " Mr. & Mrs. Smith" John and Jane Played by Angelina and Brad are a normal married couple, with normal jobs. But secretly they are both assassins.But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret. Until they are hired by competing agencies to kill each other. A romantic action comedy film.

The Good Shepherd (2006)

"The Good Shepherd" is a 2006 spy film directed by Robert De Niro. Angelina Jolie plays the wife of Edward Wilson (Matt Damon). The movie is about the early days of America's Central Intelligence Agency. With an extensive supporting cast, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pesci, William Hurt, Timothy Hutto, John Turturro. It is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-Intelligence in the CIA.

A Mighty Heart (2007)

"A Mighty Heart" is a drama film based search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi by Omer Sheikh's supporters.

Beowulf (2007 film)

"Beowulf" is an American fantasy film, created through a motion capture process similar to the technique used in Polar Express. In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. He must fight and destroy the demon Grendel, who is terrorizing towns. He incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother played by Angelina Jolie who will use any means possible to take revenge. Based on the Anglo-Saxon English epic poem, this movie ranked #1 in the United States and Canada box office and worldwide gross of $196,149,662.

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

In this computer-animated film "Kung Fu Panda" Angelina Jolie is the voice of Tigress. The fur flies in this fun tale of martial art loving bear, voiced by Jack Black. Po, the lovable panda with a passion for martial arts, finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior.

Changeling (2008)

In "Changeling" Angelina Jolie is a women in the 1928 Los Angeles, who wants to find her missing son and she calls LAPD to initiate a search. When LAPD tries to pass off another child as her missing son, she insists that the boy is not her son. Corrupt cops dismiss her as liar. This American drama film is based on real life events.

Wanted(2008)

"Wanted" is an action film based on the comic book series. Wesley Gibson is a frustrated office worker who discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin and that he has superhuman killing abilities just like his father. Angelina is "Fox" who introduces him to the secret guild " Fraternity" which his father worked for. Sloan ( Morgan Freeman) the leader of The secret society of assassins explains Wesley that Fraternity can train him and teach him how to use his superhuman strength.

Salt (2010)

In "Salt" Angelina Jolie plays a once highly respected CIA agent "Evelyn Salt" who's forced to go on the run, desperate to clear her name after she was falsely accused of being a Russian spy. Can she give her bosses the slip? Is she involved in a plot to kill the Soviet President when he visits America? And what exactly happened to her AWOL husband?

Salt is a stunt packed Cold war thriller from Phillip Noyce the director behind Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger - the whole CIA is after her!

Jolie is the perfect action heroine in this pulse-pounding thriller, which has her donning variety of disguises to avoid her pursuers. With jaw-dropping stunts, dazzling effects and pulse-quickening near-misses as the plot unfolds, last summer's most edge-of-your-seat blockbuster.

Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (TV short) 2010

Po is to host the annual winter holiday feast and he struggles to meet his friends' expectations.

The Tourist (2010 film)

"The Tourist" is a 2010 thriller that revolves around Frank (Johnny Depp), an American tourist visiting Italy. Angelina Jolie plays Elise the extra ordinary women who deliberately crosses his path. A web of intrigue, romance and danger against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice.

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) The Kaboom of Doom

Angelina Jolie is the voice of the character Tigress. In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po is now living his dream as Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace along side with his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of formidable villain, who plans to use a secret unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. To stop him Po must uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins.

ANGELINA JOLIE MOVIES LIST