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Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an Oscar-winning American actress. She is known for her exotic looks, her tumultuous off-screen life, and her humanitarian work with refugees. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Girl, Interrupted
.

Biography

Born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. She is also the sister of James Haven. In a 2004 article in Vogue she stated that her mother is from Chicago. At the Premiere Magazine "Women in Hollywood" Awards, she said her mother was born in a bowling alley and has stated that because of her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie's grandparents were French-Canadian. Her paternal-grandfather was from Czechoslovakia. Her mother also studied with Lee Strasberg. She is of Czech and English descent on her father's side; and French-Canadian and Iroquois on her mother's. As a teenager, Jolie dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia
, she did not complete her studies.

Jolie has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with her father, but that she did not hate him because she realised that "...we only have so much energy in this life". Soon afterwards, he claimed that she has "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood, and she legally dropped Voight as her last name, taking "Angelina Jolie" as her legal name.

Career

Before she began a career as an actress, she was a model.

Her first starring role came in the 1995 film Hackers
.

In 1998 she achieved a major critical success, starring in the TV film Gia
, the true story of 1970-80s supermodel Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS. Jolie won Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Satmifie awards, and was nominated for an Emmy.

She had roles in several box-office flops until 1999, when she co-starred in The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted
. Her first headlining blockbuster role came from 2001's video-game-based Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
.

Several of her subsequent films, such as Life or Something Like It
, Alexander, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
, were box-office disappointments, although Jolie herself usually received good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film Shark Tale
. Nonetheless, she has become one of Hollywood's most "in-demand" actresses. Following the success of Mr. & Mrs. Smith
, she's set to earn up to $15 million to star in the film The Good Shepherd
.

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Actors - Angelina Jolie

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