Angelina Jolie

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States, 04 June 2020
Assiociated with: Brad Pitt

Playing Matt’s unhappy wife, Clover, Angelina said: "It’s tough to play a victim, it always is, but when you have someone like De Niro helping you, it works."

Described by his cast-members as a gentle director, De Niro, who was accompanied on the red carpet by his wife Grace Hightower, said simply: "I’m very sensitive to people and I treat people the way I’d like to be treated."

Co-stars Matt Damon and Billy Crudup also attended, alongside special guests including Liam Neeson and Damon Dash.

Brad and Ang plan Christmas wedding? - Dec 8 2006
Superstar couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly planning a quiet wedding in South Africa this Christmas.

In direct contrast to recent A-list newlyweds Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the pair will have a more modest ceremony, with a handful of famous guests, such as Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Madonna and Guy Ritchie.

A source told All Headline News: "They are treating their marriage like a spiritual affirmation and don’t need big Hollywood glitz like Tom Cruise had in Italy."

The wedding will take place in a small village outside Johannesburg - a venue recommended by Oprah, who has just launched a leadership academy there.

The couple have both been married before - Angelina to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton and Brad to Jennifer Aniston.

They have two adopted children - Maddox, five, and 22-month-old daughter Zahara, and a biological daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, who was born in Namibia in May.

Angelina’s bodyguards arrested - Nov 18 2006
Indian police today arrested three British bodyguards working for Angelina Jolie, after they allegedly roughed up parents and students at a Mumbai school.

The fracas took place yesterday afternoon when the gates of the Anjuman-e-Islam school, which had been locked during filming of Angie’s new film, were opened to let parents collect their children.

MH Belose, additional chief metropolitan magistrate, later freed the three bodyguards on bail and asked them not to leave the country for one week. They deposited bail guarantees for 25,000 rupees (£300) each.

He also asked the three to report to local police every day for one week. If convicted, they can be jailed for up to three years.

Mahesh Jethmalani, lawyer for the British bodyguards, said there was no reason for police to arrest them.

"They have come to India to shoot a film," Jethmalani told the court, denying claims they were abusive.

Police identified the bodyguards as Thomas McAdam, 47, Robert Dunn, 35, and Michael Brett, 50.

Dallington TV, a British production company that organised the shoot, blamed the scuffle on photographers and television cameramen that it said rushed the school to get pictures of the actress.

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Biography

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4 1975 the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Raised by her mother after her parents divorced when she was just a year old, Angelinagre up in New York where she kept snakes and lizards as pets and became entranced by the movies.

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