Angelina Jolie biography

Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie, born in 1975 as Angelina Jolie Voight, is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, who divorced shortly after Angelina's birth. Her own acting career begin when she was five, working with her father in Lookin’ to Get Out (1980). At age 11, Angelina began attending the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, and soon began her professional career with modeling and music video shoots. Her education continued in New York University's film studies program and with the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. Her on-stage debut came during that period; she also appeared in five student films directed by her brother James Haven Voight.

Through her teens, Jolie garnered good reviews in several films (though critical response to the films themselves was uneven at best). Those included Cyborg II: Glass Shadows (1993), Hackers (1995), Foxfire (1996), Love Is All There Is (1996), Without Evidence (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Playing God (1997), George Wallace (TV - 1997 - resulted in a Golden Globe win and an Emmy nomination), True Women (TV - 1997), Playing by Heart (1998 - National Board of Review Breakthrough Performance award), and Gia (TV - 1998 - for which she received another Golden Globe, a Golden Satellite, a Screen Actors Guild award, and a second Emmy nomination). In 1998 she married fellow actor, Jonny Lee Miller, making entertainment news headlines with her wedding outfit -- black rubber pants and Miller’s name in blood (reportedly her own) on a white shirt. The couple divorced a year later.

Angelina appeared in several 1999 releases: Pushing Tin, Hell’s Kitchen, The Bone Collector and the much lauded Girl, Interrupted (for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors’ Guild award, a ShoWest award, and the big one: an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).

In May of 2000, Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton, who she'd met while they worked together on Pushing Tin. The couple has recently divorced.