Full Name: Angelina
Jolie Voight
Birthday: June 04, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 173cm (5' 7")
Weight: 54kg (120lb)
Hair Colour: Naturally Brown
Eyes: Blue/green
Family: FATHER - John Voight (actor; separated from Jolie's
mother 1976) ; MOTHER - Marcheline Bertrand (former actress;
born 1950; part Iroquois Indian); BROTHER - James Haven Voight
(director; born 1973; studied filmmaking at University of Southern
California; directed sister in five student films)
Spouse: Billy Bob Thornton (actor director writer; played together
in Pushing Tin; married in Las Vegas on May 5 2000);
Jonny Lee Miller (actor; played together in Hackers; married
on March 28 1996; separated on October 1 1997; filed for divorce
on February 3 1999)
Claim to fame: Earned raves for her performance as supermodel
Gia Carangi, in the HBO biopic Gia (1998)
Nationality: American
Education: New York University (majored in Film; attended night
classes 1997)
Occupation: Actress, Model
Angelina Jolie was
born to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand (the couple
divorced shortly thereafter) and began her own acting career
at age 5 alongside her Oscar-winning father in Lookin’
to Get Out (1980). The talented youngster enrolled in the Lee
Strasberg Theater Institute at age 11, and continued her career
into her teens with professional modelling and music video shoots.
Already well-trained for the stage and screen, she followed
up the Strasberg education with film studies at New York University
and the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. She debuted on stage
in Room Service during that time, and was directed by her brother,
James Haven, in five student movies.
The still teenaged
Jolie spent the next few years getting good reviews in good
films of various quality. She shone in 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 - for a Golden Globe win
and an Emmy nomination), True Women (TV - 1997), Playing by
Heart (1998 - for a National Board of Review Breakthrough Performance
award), and Gia (TV - 1998 - for another Golden Globe, a Golden
Satellite, a Screen Actors Guild award, and a second Emmy nomination).
That year she married fellow actor, Jonny Lee Miller, and added
unpredictability to her growing fame with her reported wedding
outfit -- black rubber pants and Miller’s name in blood
on the co-ordinating white shirt. The couple divorced a year
later. Jolie just recently married Billy Bob Thornton and sports
his name on her person in tattoo ink.
1999 brought Pushing
Tin (1999), Hell’s Kitchen (1999), The Bone Collector (1999)
and the much lauded Girl, Interrupted (1999 - for a Golden Globe,
a Screen Actors’ Guild award, a ShoWest award, and the
big one: an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
The Oscar ceremony
brought further notoriety to Jolie. Critics sneered at her gothic
get-up and her gushing adoration for Haven -- when folks can’t
fault your performances, they’ll get you for brotherly
love.
Upcoming for the
actor are the films Dancing In The Dark, Gone In 60 Seconds,
Tomb Raider and Along Came A Spider. She will assuredly be busy
for quite some time. At age 24, with the entertainment industry’s
top awards on her mantel and stellar talent to spare, Jolie
is a Hollywood legend in the making.
