Actress Angelina Jolie Biography: Early Life, Career, Movies, Awards, Family & Net Worth

Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975), is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has won several honours, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and three Golden Globes. Her films have made over $6.9 billion globally. She has been named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress multiple times.

Jolie achieved widespread recognition for her dramatic performances in A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, as well as for her role in Maria (2024). She has also voiced characters in the animated films Shark Tale (2004) and the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016).

Jolie has directed and written multiple war dramas, such as In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), First They Killed My Father (2017), and Without Blood (2024). She also produced The Outsiders (2024), which won a Tony Award for Best Musical.

Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie Voight, daughter of actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She is the sister of actor James Haven and the niece of Chip Taylor, a singer, and Barry Voight, a geologist and volcanologist.

Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Jolie’s father is of German and Slovak origin, while her mother is of Dutch and French descent.

Career

Jolie met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996, divorced 1999), while filming Hackers (1995), her first major film role. The film, like several subsequent ones, failed to attract an audience.

However, Jolie garnered a lot of attention in 1997 for her part as the wife of Alabama’s segregationist governor in the television film George Wallace, for which she later won a Golden Globe Award. The next year, she played a supermodel suffering from drug addiction in the HBO film Gia, which earned her numerous prizes, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 1999, she co-starred in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year she married Thornton. Jolie received an Oscar in 1999 for her role in Girl, Interrupted.

Winona Ryder starred in the drama, which is based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir about her stay in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie then appeared in other action flicks. She played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) before assuming a British accent and learning street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).

In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and she costarred with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City.

Both films were box-office failures, but Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she played an assassin posing as a regular housewife; while filming, she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner. In Robert De Niro’s 2006 film The Good Shepherd, she played the disgruntled wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon).

Jolie garnered enormous appreciation for her work as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007). In 2004, she played the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and she costarred with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City.

Both films were box-office failures, but Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she played an assassin posing as a regular housewife; while filming, she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.

In Robert De Niro’s 2006 film The Good Shepherd, she played the disgruntled wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon). Jolie was widely praised for her work as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007).

Jolie then appears in the sequel (2019). She starred in the 2020 fantasy adventure Come Away as the mother of Peter Pan and Alice (from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, respectively.

Jolie starred in the action-thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) as a firefighter guarding a young child being followed by killers. In 2021, she will also play the immortal warrior Thena in Eternals, an action film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Three years later, Jolie portrayed opera great Maria Callas in the biopic Maria.

Jolie has also voiced in several films, including the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008) and its sequels (2011 and 2016), as well as The One and Only Ivan (2020).

Jolie made her directorial and scriptwriting debut in 2011 with the Bosnian-language film In the Land of Blood and Honey, a turbulent love story set during the 1990s Bosnian war. She then directed the World War II drama Unbroken (2014).

The film’s screenplay was written by the Coen brothers and is based on the true story of an Olympic runner and US Air Force officer who became a Japanese prisoner of war after his plane crashed.

In 2015, she directed, wrote, and starred in By the Sea, a drama about a tumultuous romance in 1970s France, alongside Brad Pitt. Jolie then released First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2017), an adaptation of Loung Ung’s memoir about her life during the horrible Khmer Rouge dictatorship in the 1970s.

Angelina Jolie Movie

• Playing by Heart (1998)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Alexander (2004)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• Beowulf (2007)
• A Mighty Heart (2007)
• Changeling (2008)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Wanted (2008)
• Salt (2010)
• The Tourist (2010)
• Maleficent (2014) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).

Awards

Jolie has received several awards, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards and two Primetime Emmys.

In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Angelina Jolie Husband

During the filming of Hackers (1995), Jolie fell in love with actor Jonny Lee Miller, her first lover since her early teens. They did not communicate for several months after production was completed, but they eventually reconciled and married in March 1996.

The romance ended the next year, with Jolie stating that her demanding work schedule kept them apart too much.

Jolie maintained a positive relationship with Miller, whom she characterised as “a solid man and a solid friend”. Jolie initiated their divorce in February 1999, and it was formalised just before she married again the following year.

Jolie began seeing model and actress Jenny Shimizu on the production of Foxfire (1996) before marrying Miller.

According to Shimizu, their relationship lasted several years and continued even when Jolie was romantically linked with other people. After a two-month engagement, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas.

They met on the set of Pushing Tin (1999), but did not pursue a romance since Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern, and Jolie was rumoured to be dating Timothy Hutton, her Playing God (1997) co-star.

Jolie and Thornton announced their adoption of a Cambodian child in March 2002, but parted three months later. Thornton filed for divorce, alleging that their lifestyles were too dissimilar. The divorce was completed on May 27, 2003.

Jolie has six children: three were adopted overseas and three are biological.

Angelina Jolie Net Worth

Angelina Jolie’s net worth is estimated at $120 million. Her riches stem mostly from her successful acting career, which includes blockbuster films such as “Maleficent” and “The Tourist,” as well as her directing work and other endorsement deals.

Social Media

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