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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Angelina Jolie is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and this same media also frequently reports on Angelina Jolie's tumultuous off-screen life. Angelina Jolie has received three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Jolie started Angelina Jolie's acting career with the low budget production Cyborg 2 in 1993 and had Angelina Jolie's first leading role in a major film in 1995's Hackers. Angelina Jolie went on to appear in the critically acclaimed biopics George Wallace and Gia and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Angelina Jolie's performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted. Jolie achieved international fame for Angelina Jolie's portrait of videogame heroine Lara Croft in 2001 and since then established herself as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Angelina Jolie had Angelina Jolie's biggest commercial success with the 2005 action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Jolie has been married twice to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie currently lives together with fellow actor Brad Pitt, a relationship that sparked an unprecedented worldwide media frenzy. Jolie and Pitt have two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh. Since 2001 Jolie is well known for promoting humanitarian causes around the globe, most prominently for Angelina Jolie's work with refugees through UNHCR.

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Angelina Jolie Early life and family

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Angelina Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. People often assume that Jolie's mother is French, because of Angelina Jolie's name, but Jolie's grandparents were French-Canadian. Angelina Jolie is of Czech and English descent on Angelina Jolie's father's side, and French-Canadian and Iroquois on Angelina Jolie's mother's side.

After Angelina Jolie's parents' divorce in 1976, one-year-old Jolie and Angelina Jolie's older brother James Haven were raised by their mother who had moved with them to Palisades, New York; one year later Voight won his Academy Award for Best Actor for Coming Home. Angelina Jolie's mother gave up Angelina Jolie's dream of becoming an actress to raise Jolie and Angelina Jolie's older brother. As a child Jolie collected snakes and lizards, Angelina Jolie had a crush on Mr. Spock and went to the movies regularly with Angelina Jolie's mother; Jolie later explained this is how Angelina Jolie got interested in acting, not from Angelina Jolie's father. Though at the age of 7 Angelina Jolie did appear in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring Voight. When Jolie was 11 the family moved back to Los Angeles. Now Jolie decided Angelina Jolie wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where Angelina Jolie trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. As a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), Angelina Jolie was not alone in Angelina Jolie's cinematic ambitions, but felt like an outsider in the midst of good-looking, pampered children who teased Angelina Jolie's for Angelina Jolie's odd looks and being painfully skinny, for wearing braces, glasses and second-hand clothes, since unlike the other parents, Angelina Jolie's mother was not rich. Angelina Jolie's confidence was further damaged when Angelina Jolie's initial attempts at modelling proved unsuccessful. Jolie grew increasingly unhappy, felt worthless and started to cut herself; something Angelina Jolie speaks openly about today, e.g. during an appearance on CNN, "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." At 14, Jolie dropped out of Angelina Jolie's acting classes and dreamed of becoming a Funeral director. Angelina Jolie started a life of fast-living and active self-loathing, wore black, dyed Angelina Jolie's hair purple and went out moshing with Angelina Jolie's live-in boyfriend. Two years later, as the relationship had ended, Angelina Jolie rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from Angelina Jolie's mother's place. Angelina Jolie went back to theatre and graduated high school, but even today Jolie likes to point out, "I am still at heart just a punk kid with tattoos".

Jolie has been long estranged from Angelina Jolie's father mainly because Angelina Jolie blames his cheating on Angelina Jolie's mother for the break up of their family though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with Angelina Jolie's in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In July 2002 Jolie filed a request to legally change Angelina Jolie's name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as Angelina Jolie's last name; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002. In August of the same year Voight had claimed that his daughter has "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine Jolie indicated that Angelina Jolie was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with Angelina Jolie's father, "My father and I don't speak. I don't hold any anger toward him. I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood. Because my son's adopted, and families are earned." Angelina Jolie stated that Angelina Jolie did not want to publicize Angelina Jolie's reasons for not having a relationship with Angelina Jolie's father, but since Angelina Jolie had just adopted Angelina Jolie's son Maddox, that Angelina Jolie did not think it was healthy for Angelina Jolie's to be around him. Voight has not met his grandchildren.

Angelina Jolie Film Career

Early work, 1993'1997 Before Jolie began a career as an actress, Angelina Jolie was a model who was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in in Los Angeles, New York and London. Angelina Jolie also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come Through"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman") and The Rolling Stones ("Anybody Seen My Baby"). At the age of 16 Jolie went back to theatre. Now committed to acting, Angelina Jolie's first role was a German dominatrix. Angelina Jolie began to learn from Angelina Jolie's father, as Angelina Jolie noticed how he would observe people to become like them. At that time Angelina Jolie stopped fighting with him so much, realising that they were both "drama queens".

Jolie with Angelina Jolie's first husband Jonny Lee Miller in HackersJolie had appeared in five of Angelina Jolie's brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, but Angelina Jolie's movie career properly began in 1993, when Angelina Jolie got Angelina Jolie's first leading role as Casella "Cash" Reese in the low budget film Cyborg 2, playing a near-human robot, designed to seduce Angelina Jolie's way into the headquarters of Angelina Jolie's creators' rivals and blow up. Following several undistinguished projects Angelina Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in Angelina Jolie's first Hollywood picture, the 1995 film Hackers where Angelina Jolie met Angelina Jolie's first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Within this group, Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because Angelina Jolie scowls even more sourly than Angelina Jolie's co-stars and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at Angelina Jolie's keyboard in a see-through top. Despite Angelina Jolie's sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but has developed a cult following from its video release.

Now roles started coming fast for Jolie. Angelina Jolie appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet based among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in Bronx, New York. In the little known road movie Mojave Moon Angelina Jolie was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to Angelina Jolie's mother, Anne Archer. Still in 1996 Angelina Jolie played Margret 'Legs' Sadovskyone, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolies performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."

In 1997 Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God portraying a famed LA surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie's character Claire. The movie wasn't received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; Angelina Jolie seems too nice to be a criminal's girlfriend, and maybe Angelina Jolie is." Angelina Jolie then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the West, based on the book by Janice Woods Windle.

Angelina Jolie Breakthrough, 1997'2000

Jolie achieved wider recognition after being nominated for an Emmy and picking up a Golden Globe Award for Angelina Jolie's role as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biopic George Wallace. The film was highly praised by critics and, among others, received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie played the second wife of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John Frankenheimer.

Jolie as Gia Carangi in GiaIn 1998 Jolie starred in Gia, another biopic, this time of Gia Carangi, a bisexual supermodel from the 1970s. The film was written by Jay McInerney and Michael Cristofer, and directed by Cristofer. This was crammed with sex, drugs and fearsome emotional drama, as Carangi crashed and was eventually taken by AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for Angelina Jolie's role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in Angelina Jolie's portrayal filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation and Angelina Jolie's role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. Angelina Jolie also won Angelina Jolie's first Screen Actors Guild Award. At the Golden Globes, by way of celebration, Angelina Jolie jumped into a swimming-pool, clad in a hand-beaded Randolph Duke gown. In accordance to Lee Strasberg's method acting Jolie reportedly prefers to stay in character in between scenes during many of Angelina Jolie's films which can make Angelina Jolie's difficult to deal with, depending on the character. While shooting Gia, Angelina Jolie told Angelina Jolie's then-husband Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie wouldn't be able to phone him. "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"

Following Gia Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period of time, because Angelina Jolie felt like Angelina Jolie had "nothing else to give". Angelina Jolie enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes. Jolie describe it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors Studio.

Jolie returned to the big screen playing Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen and later that year headlined an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Anthony Edwards, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Madeline Stowe in Playing by Heart. The drama tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters, with Jolie playing the young club-scene hipster Joan. The film received predominantly positive reviews and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble", while The New York Times commented, "Much of the movie's sweetness emanates from Ms. Jolie, who conveys the vulnerability beneath the hard-shell glamour of a restless leonine beauty prowling the L.A. singles scene."

In 1999 Angelina Jolie starred in the Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, about two air traffic controllers who engage in macho conflict, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Jolie played Thornton's wife Mary Bell, a sexy woman who sends the guys crazy and sleeps with Cusack. Jolie would later marry Angelina Jolie's co-star Thornton. The film got a lukewarm reception from critics and Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." Angelina Jolie then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector, an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie plays Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by Angelina Jolie's cop father's suicide who is reluctant to help Washington tracking down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide, but was a critical failure; the Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."

Jolie as Lisa in Girl, InterruptedThen, Jolie took the supporting role of Lisa Rowe alongside Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted, a film that tells the story of female mental patient Susanna Kaysen and was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir 'Girl Interrupted'. The movie was supposed to be a return to dramatic form for Ryder, but instead became the welcome-to-Hollywood coronation for Jolie. For Angelina Jolie's portrait of wild-girl inmate Lisa Angelina Jolie won Angelina Jolie's third Golden Globe, Angelina Jolie's second Screen Actors Guild Award as well as an Academy Award, as Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation" and Roger Ebert wrote about Angelina Jolie's performance:

Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim.

In 2000 Jolie appeared in Angelina Jolie's first summer blockbuster Gone In 60 Seconds, where Angelina Jolie played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of super-car-thief Nicolas Cage. Angelina Jolie did not have much screen time and the Washington Post criticized that "all Angelina Jolie does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around Angelina Jolie's teeth." Angelina Jolie later explained that the film was a welcome relief from all the heavy roles Angelina Jolie played before and it would turn out to be Angelina Jolie's highest grossing movie up until then, with $237 million internationally.

Angelina Jolie Superstardom, 2001'present

Jolie as Lara CroftFollowing Angelina Jolie's Oscar success, Jolie was a well respected actress in Hollywood, but it was the 2001 videogame adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider that made Angelina Jolie's an international superstar. To play videogame heroine Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie had to master a British accent and extensive martial arts training which Angelina Jolie managed convincingly. Jolie was generally praised for Angelina Jolie's physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but director Simon West makes Angelina Jolie's journey into a game of Frogger." The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide and started Angelina Jolie's reputation as the top female action star. Angelina Jolie earned a reported $7 million which put Angelina Jolie's into the highest league of female actresses.

Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin, a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline." One year later in 2002 Angelina Jolie played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like It, a film about an ambitious TV reporter who is told that Angelina Jolie will die in a week. The film was reviewed poorly by critics, though Jolie's performance was often emphasized positively. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in Angelina Jolie's role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in Angelina Jolie's journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."

Jolie reprised Angelina Jolie's role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel couldn't achieve the success of the original, but it still was a solid hit with over $156 million at the international box-office. Jolie was paid $12 million for this second instalment. Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although well-intentioned, and reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as Angelina Jolie did in Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning role in 'Girl, Interrupted', can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality Angelina Jolie can understand. Angelina Jolie can also, witness the 'Lara Croft' films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her." Concurrently with the release of the film, Jolie published Notes from My Travels.

In 2004 Jolie first starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives, where Angelina Jolie plays FBI profiler Illeana Scott who is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something Angelina Jolie has already done, but Angelina Jolie does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." Angelina Jolie also lent Angelina Jolie's voice to Lola in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale; the cast included Will Smith, Martin Scorsese, Ren'e Zellweger, Jack Black and Robert De Niro. Also in 2004, Jolie had a brief appearance as Franky in Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film set in New York City in an alternative 1939. It is one of the first movies to be shot with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen, with all the sets and nearly all of the props computer-generated. Jolie then played Olympias in Oliver Stone's biopic Alexander about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, partly due to criticism regarding Alexander's homosexuality, but succeeded internationally with $139 million outside the United States. Newsday wrote about Jolie's performance, "Jolie is the only one in the picture who seems to be having any fun with Angelina Jolie's role, and one misses Angelina Jolie's whenever she's off-screen."

Jolie's only movie of 2005, the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is also Angelina Jolie's biggest commercial success to date. The film was directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg and tells the story about a bored married couple who find out that they're both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was received amicably and generally lauded for the good chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." The movie earned over $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.

Jolie filmed Angelina Jolie's part in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd during the second half of 2005, a movie about the early history of the CIA through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Jolie will co-star as Clover Wilson, Damon's wife who becomes an alcoholic through the course of the movie. The film is seen as Jolie's return to dramatic roles.

Jolie's confirmed future projects include the animated movies Beowulf (in which Angelina Jolie is to play Grendel's mother) and Kung Fu Panda, as well as A Mighty Heart, a film based on the life of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and Murdered in Pakistan; Angelina Jolie will star as Pearl's wife, Mariane Pearl. Angelina Jolie is also rumored to be involved in Sin City 2 as well as the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, while Angelina Jolie will not appear in a third Tomb Raider movie, as it was falsely reported.

Angelina Jolie Humanitarian work

August 27, 2001 Jolie is introduced as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in GenevaJolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. According to Jolie, "I discovered things about what's happening in the world... Cambodia was really eye opening for me." Deeply affected by these experiences, Angelina Jolie eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months Angelina Jolie agreed to visit different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on Angelina Jolie's first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; Angelina Jolie later expressed how shocked Angelina Jolie was by these first missions. In the coming months Angelina Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan where Angelina Jolie donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.. Angelina Jolie insisted on covering all costs related to Angelina Jolie's missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of Angelina Jolie's visits. Impressed by Angelina Jolie's interest and devotion in the subject, UNHCR named Angelina Jolie's a Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, despite Angelina Jolie's warning that Angelina Jolie's controversial public image might shed a negative light on the U.N. In a press conference Jolie explained Angelina Jolie's motives for joining the refugee agency:

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

During Angelina Jolie's first three years as Goodwill Ambassador Jolie concentrated Angelina Jolie's efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) all around the world. Asked what Angelina Jolie hopes to accomplish, Angelina Jolie stated, Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon. In 2002 Jolie visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador to take a closer look at the Western Hemisphere's most severe humanitarian crisis. Angelina Jolie and US Secretary of State Colin Powell opened events to celebrate World Refugee Day 2002 on June 20 in Washington, D.C. Jolie then went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. UNHCR's Representative to Kenya, George Okoth-Obbo, praised Angelina Jolie's presence, just to bring some joy into what is undoubtedly a hard life for many of the people here. Angelina Jolie also visited Angolan refugees while Angelina Jolie was filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.

Angelina Jolie Notes from My Travels

a collection of journals made during missions for UNHCROne year later in 2003 Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where Angelina Jolie traveled to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and Angelina Jolie paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka, getting a first hand look at the post war conditions in northern Sri Lanka, visiting recent returnees, IDPs and other victims of the 20 year civil war. Jolie again attended World Refugee Day on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as Angelina Jolie traveled to North Caucasus to learn about all aspects of UNHCR's operations in the region and meet displaced Chechens in their tent homes. In October 2003 Angelina Jolie published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle Angelina Jolie's early field missions for UNHCR (2001-2002). All Angelina Jolie's proceeds from the book went to UNHCR. During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 Angelina Jolie asked to visit Ruwaished camp in Jordan's remote eastern desert, 70 km from the Iraqi border. The camp hosted some 800 people who had fled Iraq during the U.S. invasion and later that month Angelina Jolie visited Sudanese refugees near the Egyptian capital in Kilo Arbaa We Nus.

On Angelina Jolie's first U.N. trip within the United States Jolie went to Arizona in April 2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. With the humanitarian situation in Sudan worsening, Angelina Jolie flew to Chad in June 2004, paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's Darfur region. Concluding Angelina Jolie's trip, Angelina Jolie emphasized the urgent need for UNHCR and its partners to get additional funding in order to continue assisting the Sudanese refugees. Four month later Angelina Jolie returned to the region, this time going directly into West Darfur to learn about the situation on the ground of thousands of IDPs. Angelina Jolie stressed the need for security and access to displaced people's home villages at a press conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. On June 18, 2004 Angelina Jolie and US Secretary of State Colin Powell met again in Washington to launch the three day events of World Refugee Day. Also in 2004 Jolie visited Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays, Jolie took the opportunity to visit UNHCR's regional office in Beirut as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.

Jolie and Condoleezza Rice attending the World Refugee Day 2005 at the National Geographic SocietyWith increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. Since 2005 Angelina Jolie has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, announcing the formation of a Council of Business Leaders with UNHCR's Deputy High Commissioner, Wendy Chamberlin, in 2005, and participated in the panel discussion Human Rights: Reduced to Charity? in 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in Washington, D.C. where Angelina Jolie met with congressmen and senators at least 20 times since 2003. Angelina Jolie explained in Forbes:

As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball.

Among others, Angelina Jolie pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in reaction to Angelina Jolie's previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona. On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. where Angelina Jolie promoted the bill and in support of it announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years. The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been granted. In addition to Angelina Jolie's political involvement, Jolie began using the public's interest in Angelina Jolie's to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. In May 2005 Jolie filmed a MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying Angelina Jolie's and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. There, Sachs's United Nations Millennium Project team is working with locals to end poverty, hunger and disease. The program originally aired on September 14, coinciding with the opening of the U.N. Special Summit on the Millennium Development Goals. In September 2005 Jolie was named the new spokesperson for the clothing line St. John starting in the Spring of 2006. The deal includes the start-up of a charity headed by Jolie. The charity will focus on children's issues and causes. On October 24, 2005 Jolie attended the First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, where Angelina Jolie pledged to partner with the WHO to treat children in Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive. Angelina Jolie also announced Angelina Jolie's plan to support the WHO's Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and pledged an initial grant.

Jolie still kept traveling, visiting different Pakistani camps harboring Afghan refugees in May 2005 and Angelina Jolie also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Angelina Jolie returned to Pakistan accompanied by Angelina Jolie's boyfriend Brad Pitt during the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see first-hand the impact of the October 8 Kashmir earthquake. Both met with many quake victims as well as President Pervez Musharraf. In January 2006 Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Y'le Ha'ti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. Jolie also arranged a deal with People allowing them to print the first picture showing Angelina Jolie's visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to Y'le Ha'ti. During a two-month stay in Namibia, as Angelina Jolie awaited the birth of Angelina Jolie's daughter, Jolie promoted the Global Education Week in an interview with NBC and Angelina Jolie also took part in a conference call with UK Chancellor Gordon Brown, who has pledged an extra $16 billion towards universal free education. Jolie has worked with Senator Hillary Clinton since 2005 to get the Education for All bill approved by the U.S. Congress.

Jolie has received wide recognition for Angelina Jolie's humanitarian work. On October 24, 2003 Angelina Jolie was the first recipient of the new created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for Angelina Jolie's conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005. Angelina Jolie has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there. On October 12, 2005, Jolie was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.

Angelina Jolie Relationships

Angelina JolieOn March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie's co-star in the film Hackers. Angelina Jolie attended Angelina Jolie's wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had Angelina Jolie's groom's name painted in Angelina Jolie's blood on the back. Jolie and Miller separated one year later and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. Both remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."

Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton who Angelina Jolie had met on the set of Pushing Tin on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked in Vogue about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."

Jolie has said in interviews that Angelina Jolie is bisexual and has long acknowledged that Angelina Jolie had a sexual relationship with Angelina Jolie's Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with Angelina Jolie's the first second I saw her." In an interview with Barbara Walters in 2003, asked Angelina Jolie's if Angelina Jolie was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"

In early 2005, Jolie found herself in the middle of a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when Angelina Jolie was accused of being the "other woman" in the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that Angelina Jolie and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. However, in several interviews Angelina Jolie has denied starting an affair with Pitt. In an interview with Ann Curry in 2005, Angelina Jolie explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."

While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented about the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; the now-famous pictures show Pitt, Jolie and Angelina Jolie's son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People that Angelina Jolie was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirming their relationship for the first time in public.

Angelina Jolie Children

Angelina Jolie Maddox

On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted Angelina Jolie's first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie). He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after Angelina Jolie had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After Angelina Jolie's divorce from Angelina Jolie's second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox.

Jolie and Angelina Jolie's son Maddox.Maddox's name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent". Jolie developed several nicknames for him, normally Angelina Jolie calls him "Mad". Maddox, like Jolie's two other children, has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media; he was named the "cutest celebrity kid", his clothes have been described as trendsetting for children's wear and he is known for this Mohawk hair style, which Jolie gave him because "he had this crazy hair that stuck straight up. I had to do something with it."

In March 2005, Lauryn Galindo, the -based adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges. Angelina Jolie had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children Angelina Jolie placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought from their birth families. There is no evidence that Maddox was among them. He was naturalized as a United States citizen upon entry into the US.

Angelina Jolie Zahara

On July 6, 2005, Jolie adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), who was orphaned by AIDS. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005 as Tena Adam. Jolie picked Angelina Jolie's up at a Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States, Zahara became so ill with salmonella that Angelina Jolie had to spend time in a hospital. Jolie stated that "she was six months and not nine pounds. Angelina Jolie's skin - you could squeeze it and it would stick together." Since then, however, Zahara has gained weight well, and the family now calls Angelina Jolie's "chubby". Zahara's name means "flower" in Swahili, the second name "Marley" comes from late Jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley. Zahara's nickname is "Z".

In the months following Zahara's adoption news reports emerged in which several women either claimed to be Angelina Jolie's birth mother or Angelina Jolie's grandmother. Jolie had a lawyer to look into these allegations and they proved to be false. While making an appearance on CNN's "The Situation Room" Jolie stated that Angelina Jolie's daughter is an "AIDS orphan." By that Angelina Jolie means Angelina Jolie's birth mother died from AIDS, but Angelina Jolie's daughter does not have the disease. The birth father of Zahara is not known. Angelina Jolie's statement made it clear that the birth mother is indeed dead. In late October 2005, an Ethiopian judge ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that Jolie would have to file for re-adoption of Angelina Jolie's daughter. The judge ruled that a woman claiming to be Angelina Jolie's mother is not the birth mother.

Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and picked up Angelina Jolie's daughter; later Jolie indicated that Angelina Jolie and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together. In December 2005 it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children. In support of this bid (and as part of legal requirements), Jolie took out classified advertisements in the Los Angeles paper Daily Commerce announcing the name change request, and on January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".

Angelina Jolie Shiloh

On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to the couple's third child (first biological), a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at night at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh was born by a scheduled caesarean section, due to breech presentation, and Pitt was there to cut Angelina Jolie's umbilical cord. The couple's Los Angeles obstetrician was assisted by local staff. Shiloh, according to a long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one."

People was told by Namibia's Environment and Tourism Deputy Minister, Leon Jooste, that "Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt will, according to Namibian law, be allowed to obtain Namibian citizenship, if the parents should choose to do so." On June 7 Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport while speaking to local journalists. Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi photographers to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide the most expensive celebrity image of all time. All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. On July 26 Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it is the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that originally aired on June 20, 2006, Jolie revealed that Angelina Jolie and Pitt are planning to adopt another child in the foreseeable future.

Angelina Jolie in the media

Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to Angelina Jolie's famous father Jon Voight. At 7 Angelina Jolie had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by Angelina Jolie's father, and in 1986 and 1988 Angelina Jolie attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when Angelina Jolie started Angelina Jolie's acting career Jolie decided not to use Voight as a stage name as Angelina Jolie didn't want to be associated with Angelina Jolie's father, but come into Angelina Jolie's own as an actress. Jolie was never shy about controversy as Angelina Jolie cultivated Angelina Jolie's wild girl image Angelina Jolie had as a teenager into Angelina Jolie's public persona in the first years of Angelina Jolie's career. During Angelina Jolie's acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared "I'm so in love with my brother right now" which, combined with Angelina Jolie's affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked rumors in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven. Angelina Jolie has continually denied those rumors and said while appearing on Inside the Actors Studio the world is a lot sicker than I thought In an interview with People Angelina Jolie and Angelina Jolie's brother stated that, being children of divorcees, they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.

Quickly, Jolie became a tabloid's favorite, since Angelina Jolie presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan." Angelina Jolie's love life, especially Angelina Jolie's interest in sadomasochism, has often been featured in the media. In 2004 Angelina Jolie stated in Allure, "S&M sex can be misinterpreted as violence. It's really about trust. I like to push boundaries, both emotional and sexual, with another person. That's when I've felt the sexiest. I've been in both submissive and dominant roles because I want more." Angelina Jolie also created headlines with Angelina Jolie's much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie's subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As Angelina Jolie took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie started to use Angelina Jolie's celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide, e.g. promoting World Refugee Day 2006 during a two hour CNN special interview with Anderson Cooper which attracting more than double the audience of his typical newscast. Jolie has been taking flight lessons since 2004 and Angelina Jolie has a student pilot and private pilot (Foreign based) license. The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but Angelina Jolie said that Angelina Jolie teaches Buddhism to Angelina Jolie's son Maddox because Angelina Jolie considers it part of his culture. Jolie has not stated definitively whether or not Angelina Jolie believes in God. When asked in an interview with The Onion A.V. Club in 2000 if there was a God, Angelina Jolie said "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."

Starting in 2005, Angelina Jolie's relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed Angelina Jolie's pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story The Brangelina fever; among others, there were several false wedding rumors including an alleged imminent wedding in Laglio, Italy that was even further ignited by the local mayor and was picked up by many noted news services like the Associated Press and the BBC. Trying to avoid this ongoing media frenzy, the couple eventually went to Namibia for the birth of the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ, as it has been described ironically.

Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the globe. According to the Q Score survey by Marketing Evaluations Inc., in 2000, subsequent to Angelina Jolie's Oscar win, 31% of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 Angelina Jolie was familiar to 81% of Americans. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide. Also in 2006, Jolie was among the TIME 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, Angelina Jolie was featured on the cover of Forbes "The Celebrity 100" edition, ranking at No. 35, and Angelina Jolie was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People.

Angelina Jolie Tattoos

Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has often been addressed by interviewers, such as Barbara Walters and James Lipton. Jolie has gone on record as saying that a positive effect resulting from the large number of tattoos on Angelina Jolie's body is that, while Angelina Jolie is not opposed to film nudity, filmmakers have been forced to become more creative when plotting any nude or love scenes involving her. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of Angelina Jolie's productions. Angelina Jolie frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has said that all the tattoos Angelina Jolie possesses have a special meaning.

Jolie at the premiere of Alexander with two of Angelina Jolie's tattoos visibleJolie's tattoos:

the lower case letter "h" (for Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven) on the inside of Angelina Jolie's left wrist.

"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" (Tennessee Williams) on Angelina Jolie's left forearm.

"XIII" (number 13 in Roman numerals) on Angelina Jolie's left forearm.

coordinates representing the locations where Angelina Jolie adopted Maddox (N11' 33' 00" E104' 51' 00") and Zahara (N09' 02' 00" E038' 45' 00") on Angelina Jolie's left arm which cover up Angelina Jolie's "Billy Bob" tattoo.

(Arabic for "strength of will") on Angelina Jolie's right forearm.

"Quod me nutrit me destruit" (Latin for "What nourishes me also destroys me") several inches below Angelina Jolie's navel a tilted Latin cross on the lower left of Angelina Jolie's abdomen.

"know your rights" just under Angelina Jolie's neck between Angelina Jolie's shoulders.

a prayer of Buddhist Sanskrit symbols for Angelina Jolie's son Maddox on Angelina Jolie's left shoulder which covers up the Japanese "death" tattoo.

a large Asian tiger on Angelina Jolie's back.

a dragon under the tiger.

two pointy black tribals on the lower parts of Angelina Jolie's back. Lasered/Covered:

a dragon on Angelina Jolie's left arm (she has been lasering it for some time now, but it is still faintly visible).

"Billy Bob", the name of Angelina Jolie's former husband Billy Bob Thornton, on Angelina Jolie's left arm an unidentified tattoo both Thornton and Jolie shared. It was on Angelina Jolie's right forearm, now covered by the "strength of will" tattoo.

a Japanese character for courage (?) which matched a tattoo of Angelina Jolie's first husband Jonny Lee Miller, now covered by the Tennessee Williams quote.

a Japanese character for death (?), now covered by the prayer for Angelina Jolie's son. a dragon Angelina Jolie got in Amsterdam while drunk, now covered by the Latin cross.

a window on Angelina Jolie's lower back. On Inside the Actors Studio, Angelina Jolie explained that Angelina Jolie covered this tattoo, because, while Angelina Jolie used to spend all of Angelina Jolie's time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, Angelina Jolie now lives there all of the time.

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