QUICK FACTS
NAME: Angelina Jolie
OCCUPATION:
Activist, Film
Actress, Director
BIRTH DATE: June
04, 1975 (Age: 38)
EDUCATION: Beverly
Hills High School
PLACE OF BIRTH:
Los Angeles,
California
FULL NAME: Angelina
Jolie Voight
A.K.A: Angelina Jolie
ZODIAC SIGN:
Gemini
BEST KNOWN FOR
Angelina Jolie is one of
Hollywood's leading
actresses, known for
movies like Changeling
and Salt as much as she is for her relationship with actor Brad Pitt.
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Born in Los Angeles,
California, on June 4,
1975, Angelina Jolie
starred in the HBO biopic Gia before earning an Academy Award for
best supporting actress
for Girl, Interrupted. Jolie has become one of
Hollywood's top
marquee names, having
starred in movies like
Wanted, Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, Salt and
Changeling. She's also
directed the film In the
Land of Blood and
Honey, and is coupled
with actor Brad Pitt.
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Early Life
Breakthrough Role
Humanitarian
Efforts
Recent Roles
Personal Life
QUOTES
"My doctors estimated
that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman. Once I knew that this was my
reality, I decided to be
proactive and to
minimize the risk as
much I could. I made a
decision to have a
preventive double
mastectomy."
– Angelina Jolie
Early Life
Actress and humanitarian Angelina
Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los
Angeles, California, to
actor Jon Voight and
actress Marcheline
Bertrand. She rose to
stardom in the 1990s.
She began acting at a
young age, studying at
the Lee Strasberg
Theater Institute while
in her early teens. Jolie
later attended New
York University.
Breakthrough Role
In the 1990s, Angelina
Jolie became a popular
actress. She gave a
star-making
performance in the
1998 television film Gia
based on the short,
tragic life of model Gia
Marie Carangi, which
won her a Golden Globe
Award for Best
Actress. Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrupted (1999) brought Jolie her
first Academy Award
(for best supporting
actress). She has
continued to take on a
variety of interesting
roles, such as an
adventurer in the Lara
Croft films, a FBI
profiler in Taking Lives
(2004), an assassin in
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
(2005) and a neglected,
troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd
(2006).
In 2007, Jolie gave a
brilliant performance as
Mariane Pearl, the
pregnant widow of Wall
Street Journal reporter
Danny Pearl, in A Mighty
Heart. The film was
based on Mariane Pearl's account of her
husband's abduction
and murder.
Humanitarian Efforts
A devoted
humanitarian, Angelina
Jolie was made a
Goodwill Ambassador
for the UN Refugee
Agency in 2001. She has
made headlines for her
work to obtain aid for
refugees in Cambodia,
Darfur and Jordan, to
name just a few.
In 2005, Jolie received
the Global Humanitarian
Action Award from the
United Nations
Association of the USA
for her activism on
behalf of refugee rights.
She continues to travel
the world to drawing
attention to global
issues.
Recent Roles
In October 2008, Jolie
appeared in the Clint
Eastwood-directed
thriller Changeling. Jolie
played Christine Collins,
a mother whose son
reappears after his
kidnapping. Collins is
sure the returned boy is
not the one to whom
she gave birth, and her
fight reveals a police
conspiracy. In 2009, Jolie
received an Oscar
nomination for best
actress for her role in
the film.
The actress went on to
earn the lead role in the
action-packed Salt
(2010), about a CIA
agent, Evelyn Salt, who
is on the run after being
accused of being a
Russian spy. That same
year, she earned the
featured part of Elise
Clifton-Ward in The
Tourist alongside
Johnny Depp. She has
since been cast in the
title role of Maleficent,
slated to be released in
2014, and is scheduled
to reprise her role as
Evelyn Salt in Salt 2.
Personal Life
Famous for her off-
screen romances,
Angelina Jolie has been
married twice.

She married Hackers co-
star Jonny Lee Miller in
1995. The couple
divorced in 1999. The
following year, Jolie
married Academy
Award-winning actor
Billy Bob Thornton. That
union lasted until 2003.
Jolie met her next
romantic partner, actor
Brad Pitt, during the
making of Mr. and Mrs.
Smith in 2004.
In 2002, Angelina Jolie
adopted a son from
Cambodia and named
him Maddox. Three
years later, she adopted a daughter, Zahara. In 2005, actor Brad Pitt filed paperwork to adopt both of Jolie's children. The couple's first biological daughter,
Shiloh, was born in the
African country of
Namibia in 2006. Jolie,
Pitt and their children
had traveled there to
avoid the media frenzy
that seemed to follow
them wherever they
went.
In March 2007, Angelina
Jolie added a new
member to her family.
She adopted a 3-year-
old boy from a
Vietnamese orphanage
and named him Pax
Thien. Jolie gave birth to
twins, Knox Leon and
Vivienne Marcheline, on
July 12, 2008, in a
seaside hospital in
southern France. The
rights for the first
images of the twins
were sold to People and
Hello! magazines for $
14 million—making
them the most
expensive celebrity
pictures ever taken.
After the joy of
welcoming her third
child, Shiloh, into the
world came great
sadness for Jolie. She
experienced a great
personal loss in early
2007, when her mother,
Marcheline Bertrand,
died of ovarian cancer
at the age of 56 after
fighting the disease for
many years.
In May 2013, 37-year-
old Jolie announced in a
New York Times op-ed
article titled "My Medical
Choice" that she
underwent a double
mastectomy in an
effort to prevent
breast cancer in the
future. The actress said
she decided to undergo
the surgery after
learning that she carries
a gene known as
BRCA1, which increases
the risk of both breast
and ovarian cancer. "My
doctors estimated that
I had an 87 percent risk
of breast cancer and a
50 percent risk of
ovarian cancer, although
the risk is different in
the case of each
woman," Jolie stated.
"Once I knew that this
was my reality, I
decided to be proactive
and to minimize the risk
as much I could." By late
April 2013, Jolie added,
she had completed
several months of
medical procedures,
including a double
mastectomy and
reconstruction surgery,
at the Pink Lotus Breast
Center in California.