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Birth Name:
  • Angelina Jolie Voight
Nicknames:
  • Angie, Catwoman, Ange, AJ
Birthplace:
  • Los Angeles, CA
Quote:
  • "There was a time when I was really going to give up acting -- right after 'Foxfire'. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. 'Wallace' was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine." -- GQ, December 1998
Education:
  • Lee Strasberg Theater Institute; enrolled at age 11
  • New York University; studied Film; attended night classes, 1997
Factoids:
  • As a child, Jolie wanted to become a funeral director
  • Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in Room Service
  • Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan, 2001
Significant Other(s):
  • Brad Pitt, actor; together since 2005
  • Husband: Billy Bob Thornton, actor, director, screenwriter; acted together in PUSHING TIN (1999); eloped to Las Vegas May 5, 2000; divorced 2003.
  • Husband: Jonny Lee Miller, actor; married March 1996; divorced 1999
  • Timothy Hutton, actor; dated 1998-99
Family:
  • Father: Jon Voight, actor; separated from Jolie's mother 1976
  • Mother: Marcheline Bertrand, former actress (1950-2007); part Iroquois Indian
  • Brother: James Haven (Voight), director; b. 1973; studied filmmaking at University of Southern California; directed sister in five student films
  • Uncle: Chip Taylor, songwriter (b. 1940)
  • Godmother: Jacqueline Bisset, actress
  • Godfather: Maximilian Schell, actor
  • Son: Mattox Chivan Thornton Jolie, b. 2001; adopted 2002 from Cambodia w. Billy Bob Thornton
  • Daughter: Shiloh, b. 2006; father: Brad Pitt
  • Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie, b. 2005; adopted 2006 from Namibia w. Brad Pitt
Feature Film
Credits:
  • 2008: Atlas Shrugged, The Changeling, Wanted, Kung Fu Panda
    2007: Beowulf, A Mighty Heart
    2006: The Good Shepherd
    2005: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    2004: Alexander, The Fever, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Shark Tale (voice), Taking Lives
    2003: Beyond Borders, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    2002: Life or Something Like It
    2001: Original Sin, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  • 2000: Gone in Sixty Seconds
    1999: Girl, Interrupted, The Bone Collector, Pushing Tin
    1998: Playing by Heart, Hell's Kitchen, "Gia" (TV)
    1997: Playing God, "George Wallace" (TV), "True Women" (TV)
    1996: Foxfire, Love Is All There Is, Mojave Moon
    1995: Hackers, Without Evidence
    1993: Cyborg 2, Alice & Viril, Angela & Viril
    1982: Lookin' to Get Out
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