Angelina Jolie's Full Biography
After winning the best supporting actress Academy Award for her role in Girl, Interrupted and impressing audiences with her performance in the HBO biopic Gia, Angelina Jolie became a leading Hollywood actress. She starred in a number of popular movies including Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt, and Changeling.
Later on, Jolie had a major international hit with Disney's Maleficent and went on to direct several films including In the Land of Blood and Honey, Unbroken, and By the Sea (where she co-starred with then-husband Brad Pitt).
Early Life/Education
Born to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie Voight started her acting career young, training at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute during her early teenage years. She then pursued higher education at New York University while balancing her acting career.
Career
After her appearance in Hackers, Angelina Jolie landed her first major role in the sci-fi thriller Cyborg 2 in 1993. However, it wasn't until her portrayal of George Wallace in the biopic that she gained widespread recognition and won her first Golden Globe Award in 1997.
She continued to impress with her performance as supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's Gia, earning another Golden Globe.
Jolie's impressive acting skills have earned her numerous accolades, including a third Golden Globe, a second Screen Actors Guild Award, and her very first Academy Award for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted. Her versatility as an actress has landed her roles in action films such as the Lara Croft franchise and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, as well as voice-over work in animated features like Shark Tale and Kung-Fu Panda - the latter being Jolie's highest grossing film to date with worldwide earnings of $632 million.
In 2011, Jolie wrote, produced, and directed the movie In the Land of Blood and Honey. Jolie returned to the big screen in 2014 with Maleficent, a live-action remake of the Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty from 1959, after a three and a half year absence. She wrote and directed the movie Unbroken in the same year.
The marital drama By the Sea (2015) was Jolie's subsequent film as a director. She co-starred with Brad Pitt, who was then her husband, and it was their first project together since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Jolie also starred in and executive produced the 2017 film The Breadwinner in addition to writing, producing, and directing the 2017 film First They Killed My Father.
In the 2019 Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Jolie reprised her role as Maleficent for a second time. The film was met with negative reviews from film critics, but it did only averagely well at the box office, grossing a total of $490 million worldwide. After that, she had roles in the films Come Away, Those Who Wish Me Dead, and Eternals, all of which were released in 2020.
Additionally, she is set to return as Master Tigress in the fourth Kung Fu Panda movie, scheduled to be released in 2024.
Business Ventures
Most recently Angelina Jolie announced she is getting into the fashion business. Altier Jolie will be her line, and specifics with a launch date are yet to come.
Jolie has also tried her hand at directing and producing.
Personal Life
Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller started dating after collaborating on the 1995 crime film Hackers. They lost touch after filming wrapped, and Jolie later began dating Jenny Shimizu, a co-star from the Foxfire movie.
She later reconnected with Miller after her romance with Shimizu fizzled out. Three years after their 1996 elopement, they got divorced.
When Jolie remarried in 2000, this time to Billy Bob Thornton, she shocked the world. However, their union did not last long, as they abruptly parted ways in 2002 and divorced the following year.
In 2005 she was linked to Brad Pitt. They have 6 kids together, 3 bio and 3 adopted. The couple officially got married in 2014 and then filed for divorce in 2016. It became legally granted in 2019.
Net Worth
Angelina Jolie is said to have a net worth of $120 million. Her earnings started at $7 million for the first Lara Croft movie and increased to $12 million for the sequel. She was paid $10 million for her roles in Mr & Mrs Smith, The Good Shepherd, and A Mighty Heart. However, her salary reached new heights with Wanted, for which she was paid $15 million, followed by Salt at $20 million and The Tourist at $19 million.
Activism
Angelina Jolie, a passionate humanitarian, was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001. Her relentless efforts to provide assistance to refugees in various places including Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan have garnered attention worldwide. In recognition of her advocacy for refugee rights, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Action Award by the United Nations Association of the USA in 2005. Jolie remains steadfast in raising awareness about global issues.
Controversy
Angelina caused a stir when she was pictured hard core kissing her brother backstage at the 2000 Golden Globes and repeated the same three months later at the Academy Awards Red Carpet.
She then came under fire again when she and Billy Bob Thorton exchanged vials of each other's blood.
