Angelina Jolie

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

Angelina?s secret life ? May 05
From exclusive hotels in Palm Springs and exotic Moroccan beaches to? Sainsbury?s in Beaconsfield. Yes, Angelina has swapped the bright lights of Hollywood for the slightly less glamorous delights of a quaint village in rural Buckinghamshire. Angelina fell in love with the village of Fulmer whilst filming Tomb Raider at nearby Pinewood Studios and has since settled there with son Maddox. Locals report that the actress has taken to village life, and can regularly be seen chatting to other mums on the school run, enjoying a pint at her local and doing the weekly shop at a nearby Sainsbury?s. And rumour has it that Brad is all set to join her.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Angelina?s UN mission ? May 05
The actress recently named by People magazine as their most beautiful woman of 2005 left the glamour of Hollywood far behind when she visited Pakistan to highlight the plight of the country?s refugees in her capacity as UN goodwill ambassador. During her four-day stay, Jolie met Pakistan?s Prime Minister and called for increased international help to repatriate more than 3 million Afghans who fled to Pakistan to escape conflict in their own country.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Brad & Angelina play happy families ? Apr 05
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been doing their best to discredit their own claims that they are just good friends by being pictured in various exotic locations looking decidedly at ease in each other?s company. First, the pair booked into the Parker Meridian Hotel in Palm Springs, California, where they were spotted lounging around the hotel pool long after promotional duties for new film, Mr and Mrs Smith, were over. Whilst their aides claim that the actors stayed at opposite sides of the exclusive complex, other reports have the couple sharing a suite under the names Bryce and Jasmine in an Indian rice dish-related pun. Now they have been seen relaxing on an African beach with Angelina?s adopted son, Maddox.

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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