MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES
ANGELINA JOLIE
BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS: 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 modeling 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.
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