Angelina Jolie
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States, 04 June 2020
- Assiociated with: Brad Pitt
The star, who is in a relationship with actor Brad Pitt, also puts her money where her mouth is. She’s famed as much for her charitable work around the globe as for her screen success, and says that’s where her true motivation lies.
"I will continue to work with refugees and will never shift my focus from them because that’s where my heart lies," she says.
"We’ve just come back from Cambodia. We’re supporting a huge area of protected forest for many, many villagers. It’s a huge project but I’m learning so much.
"Brad has also been working in New Orleans with the victims of Hurricane Katrina and we want to do something in Ethiopia, Zahara’s birthplace - maybe support an orphanage there. We hear about something that’s going on and we just want to get involved."
Angelina in Vietnam for adoption? - Jan 24 2007
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has apparently been spotted in Vietnam - sparking rumours that she is about to adopt a new baby there.
The mum-of-three reportedly arrived at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam last week and has been staying at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
According to First magazine, it’s rumoured she is planning to adopt a baby boy from the Tam Binh orphanage.
Ang already has two adopted tots - Maddox, five, and two-year-old Zahara. She also has a baby daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, with Brad Ptt.
When she was asked about her adopted brood recently, the actress admitted: "I feel so much more for Madd and Zee because they’re survivors. Shiloh seemed so privileged from the moment she was born. I have less inclination to feel for her.
"I met my other kids when they were six months old, they came with a personality. A newborn really is this, yes, a blob."
Brangelina moves to New Orleans - Jan 16 2007
Angelina Jolie has confirmed that she and Brad and their three children have decided to settle down in New Orleans.
"We love it there," Angelina told Us Weekly magazine at the Golden Globe Awards after confirming the move. "The kids are going to go to school there. We’re really looking forward to it."
The globe-trotting couple and their kids Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and 7-month-old Shiloh, arrived in New Orleans just days ago on January 11.
Angelina has already been spotted hanging out at a local restaurant, Angeli on Decatur while Brad continues work on his latest film, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which is filming in the area.
Sources close to the couple tell the magazine that the 31-year-old actress plans to focus on "befriending normal moms so she can do things with the kids," while the family reside in their newly-purchased $3.5 million, six-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath mansion in the French Quarter, which is their fourth home together.
Apparently also interested in continuing their charity efforts while they stay in the area, sources claim that the couple hope their move will raise awareness for the region, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Adds the source, "They think it is important to be there right now."
Brad and Angie hit Globes red carpet - Jan 16 2007
Angelina Jolie joined her man Brad Pitt on the Golden Globes red carpet, despite rumours that Brad would be coming by himself. See photos of the Golden Globe Awards
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Her family moved to LA when Angelina was eleven and she soon began working on her acting career, enrolling in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where ahe appeared in several productions. Despite her abilities Angelina was teased during her time at Beverley Hills High School - far from being beautiful and popular she was skinny, with glasses and braces and wore second hand clothes. At 14 she dropped out of theatre classes, harbouring dreams of becoming a funeral director, and began cutting herself. Angelina began a rebellious period of her life, moving out of home and in with her boyfriend.
At around the same time she was taken on by Finesse Model Management and took jobs in the US and Europe, she also appeared in several music videos for the likes of Meat Loaf and Lenny Kravitz. Then, at 16, she returned to acting and rekindled her relationship with her father. She appeared in several of her brother’s student films before, in 1993 she was offered a role in sci-fi flick Cyborg 2. Several equally poor productions followed before Angelina landed a role in Hackers, which was a cult hit and threw the actress in the direction of Jonny Lee Miller, whom she would soon marry.
Little known films such as Foxfire and Mojave Moon followed but it was the Golden Globe winning George Wallace that got Angelina noticed and Pushing Tin, which co-starred Billy Bob Thornton and The Bone Collector helped her on her way to global stardom. However it was her part as messed up teenager Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted which won her her place on the Hollywood walk of fame. The role won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as well as several other accolades.
Action movies Gone In 60 Seconds and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider followed and made sure Angelina was admired the world over by men and women alike. Meanwhile her personal life became just as fascinating than her on screen performances. Having divorced Jonny Lee Miller she married Pushing Tin costar Billy Bob Thornton, famously they wore vials of blood around their neck, however in 2003 they also divorced despite having adopted a Cambodian orphan, Maddox. At the same time she admitted she had had a relationship with a female costar on the set of Foxfire. Meanwhile she continued with her now much publicised humanitarian work, as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and her film career, appearing in Alexander and Taking Lies among others.
In 2005 Angelina took a leading role in Mr & Mrs Smith, opposite Brad Pitt. Although the movie itself was widely panned the burgeoning relationship between Angelina and Brad, who was at the time in the process of splitting from Jennifer Aniston, made sure it was a hit. The relationship was also a success, in January 2006 Angelina announced that she was pregnant, just months after adopting second child, Ethiopian Zahara, she gave birth to Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.
Angelina has confirmed that she is working on a screen adaptation of Beowulf, A Mighty Heart and Atlas Shrugged.
updated January 2007
October 2007