Angelina Jolie
Biography
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.
Angelina Jolie Filmography
Love and Honor (2004)--Catherine
the Great
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2004)--Jane Smith
Alexander (2004)--Olympias
Shark Tale (2004) (post-production) (voice)--Lola
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)--Capt. Franky Cook
Beyond Borders (2003)--Sarah Jordan
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)--Lara Croft
Life or Something Like It (2002)--Lanie Kerigan
Original Sin (2001)--Julia Russel
Tomb Raider (2001)--Lady Lara Croft
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)--Sarah 'Sway' Wayland
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV)--Herself
Girl, Interrupted (1999)--Lisa Rowe
The Bone Collector (1999)--Amelia Donaghy
Pushing Tin (1999)--Mary Bell
Playing by Heart (1998)--Joan
Hell's Kitchen (1998)--Gloria McNeary
Gia (1998) (TV)--Gia Marie Carangi
Playing God (1997)--Claire
George Wallace (1997) (TV)--Cornelia Wallace
True Women (1997) (TV)--Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
Mojave Moon (1996)--Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
Love Is All There Is (1996)--Gina Malacici
Foxfire (1996)--Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
Without Evidence (1995)--Jodie Swearingen
Hackers (1995)--Kate Libby
Lookin' to Get Out (1982)--Tosh |
