Actress

Angelina Jolie

Born: 4 June 1975 · 51 years
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 169 cm

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Biography

💥Angelina Jolie Voight. Born in 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Grew up in a family with an older brother. Her father worked as an actor, and her mother was a producer. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. She works as an actress, director, and UN Goodwill Ambassador. Married three times: to Jonny Lee Miller, to Billy Bob Thornton, and to Brad Pitt; the couple has 6 children: 3 biological (son Knox, daughters Shiloh and Vivienne) and 3 adopted (sons Maddox and Pax, daughter Zahara). She prefers to keep her current personal life private.

🏆Main awards🏆: Oscar (2000) [Girl, Interrupted], Golden Globe (1999) [Gia], Golden Globe (2000) [Girl, Interrupted], Critics’ Choice Awards (2000) [Girl, Interrupted]

🎬Main projects🎬: "Original Sin" (2001), "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), "Maleficent" (2014), "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001), "Maria" (2024), "Girl, Interrupted" (1999), "Gia" (1998)

⭐Interesting fact⭐: Angelina is one of the most famous humanitarian activists in the world; she has visited more than 60 countries as part of UN missions, helping refugees, and has opened several charitable foundations. Angelina took her middle name "Jolie" as a surname instead of "Voight".

Filmography

2008 Kung Fu Panda Tigress, voice

Interesting facts

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She has a particular interest in the football club Liverpool, for the simple reason that her son Maddox "only wants to play for Liverpool."
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On Angelina's left forearm is tattooed a quote by Tennessee Williams, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages."
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Attended the same high school as Lenny Kravitz.
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In 2003, she became the first recipient of the United Nations Correspondents Association's Citizen of the World Award, for her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Jolie started working as a model at the age of 14.
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The actress's favorite Disney character is the flying baby elephant Dumbo. The actress admits that the episode in which Dumbo was able to fly moved her to tears.
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Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at the age of 16.
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In 2000, she was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People magazine.
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During her wedding to Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina wore black leather pants and a white T-shirt on which she wrote the name of her future husband in her own blood.
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Appeared in the music video for The Rolling Stones' song "Anybody Seen My Baby?" (1997).
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Angelina Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor.
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On her stomach is a tattoo in Latin of the phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit," which translates as "What nourishes me also destroys me."
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Was on the cover of an issue of Forbes Magazine that published a ranking of the hundred least popular celebrities.
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The actress once said that she puts a third of the money she earns in the bank, lives on a third, and gives the last third to charity.
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The actress was born at 9:09 in the morning.
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Thanks to the actress's father, Czech and American blood flows in her veins, and thanks to her mother, French and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) blood.
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Became the third actress (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz) to "join" the club of actresses earning more than $20 million per film, after signing a contract to star in the film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005).
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On the inside of her left wrist is tattooed the English letter "H", which relates to two people close to her. Jolie got this tattoo while dating actor Timothy Hutton, but after their breakup she began to say that the tattoo symbolizes her bond with her brother James Haven.
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The actress gave her awards (including an Oscar statuette, 3 Golden Globes, a SAG Award, and a Critics' Choice Award) to her mother so that, in her words, she would not fixate on them or depend on them.
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The actress was nominated for a Golden Raspberry as "Worst Actress" four years in a row (from 2002 to 2005), but each time she was beaten by another nominee.
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The actress is a UN ambassador.
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The actress also has the following tattoos on her body: the words "Know Your Rights" near her neck; a dragon on her left forearm, above which was the inscription Billy Bob (removed after her divorce from actor Billy Bob Thornton); the Roman numeral "13" (XIII) on her arm; on her left shoulder, the geographic coordinates of the places where each of her children was born; a Japanese symbol of death; a large black cross on her stomach.
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Angelina Jolie is left-handed.
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Angelina's father (Jon Voight) starred with her godmother (Jacqueline Bisset) in the film "The Judge and His Hangman" (1975), which was directed by the actress's godfather, Maximilian Schell.
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Her parents are actors Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight. They divorced in 1978 after 7 years of marriage. After her parents' divorce, Angelina moved to New York with her older brother James and her mother. Voight continued his successful film career and soon won an Oscar, while Bertrand gave up her dreams of a successful film career and devoted herself to raising the children; she died in 2007 of ovarian cancer.
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Jolie is one of the first actresses to win 3 consecutive Golden Globe Awards in 3 different categories: "Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film": "George Wallace" (TV) (1997); "Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film": "Gia" (TV) (1998); "Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama": "Girl, Interrupted" (1999). It just so happened that all 3 of her characters were based on real people.
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The Namibian government offered the actress to grant official Namibian citizenship to her daughter Shiloh Nouvel.
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Full name — Angelina Jolie Voight. Angelina Jolie is the given name, and Voight is the surname.
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Angelina's godfather (Maximilian Schell) gave his goddaughter a doll on every birthday (until she was 16). Sometimes they were modern dolls made of plastic, sometimes they were old and valuable dolls made of wood or porcelain.
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In 2004, the Prime Minister of Cambodia awarded the actress the title of honorary citizen of the country for her humanitarian work, and in 2005, Jolie received official citizenship there from the king.