Tuesday 28 May 2013

Angelina Jolie

DOB: 4 JUNE 1945
PLACE: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,USA



Angelina Jolie  is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has often been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.

Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel The Cradle of Life (2003).She continued her action star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010)—her biggest live-action commercial successes to date—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie made her directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three biological children and three adopted children.
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  • Cleopatra (2013) as Cleopatra (pre-production)
  • Kung Fu Panda (2011) 2 as Tigress (voice) [trailer]
  • The Tourist (2010) as Elise Clifton-Ward [trailer]
  • Salt (2010) as Evelyn Salt [trailer]
  • Wanted (2008) as Fox [trailer]
  • Changeling (2008) as Christine Collins
  • Kung Fu Panda (2008) as Tigress (voice)
  • Beowulf (2007) as Grendel's Mother
  • A Mighty Heart (2007) as Mariane Pearl
  • The Good Shepherd (2006) as Margaret 'Clover' Russell
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) as Jane Smith [trailer]
  • Alexander (2004) as Olympias [trailer]
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) as Franky
  • Shark Tale (2004) as Lola (voice)
  • Taking Lives (2004) as Illeana
  • Beyond Borders (2003) as Sarah Jordan
  • Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) as Lara Croft
  • Life or Something Like It (2002) as Lanie Kerrigan
  • Original Sin (2001) as Julia Russell / Bonny Castle [trailer]
  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) as Lara Croft
  • Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) as Sara 'Sway' Wayland [trailer]
  • Girl, Interrupted (1999) Lisa Rowe
  • The Bone Collector (1999) as Amelia Donaghy
  • Pushing Tin (1999) as Mary Bell
  • Playing by Heart (1998) as Joan
  • Hell's Kitchen (1998) as Gloria McNeary
  • Gia as Gia Carangi (TV movie)
  • Playing God (1997) as Claire
  • George Wallace (1997) as Cornelia Wallace(TV movie)
  • Cornelia Wallace
  • True Women (1997) as Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods (TV movie)
  • Foxfire (1996) as Legs Sadovsky
  • Mojave Moon (1996) as Eleanor 'Elie' Rigby
  • Love Is All There Is (1996) as Gina Malacici
  • Hackers (1995) as Kate Libby
  • Without Evidence (1995) as Jodie Swearingen
  • Cyborg 2 (1993) as Casella 'Cash' Reese
  • Lookin' to Get Out (1982) as Tosh


 

Angelina Jolie’s Acting Awards

 

  • 1998 – Best Supporting Actress – Series/Miniseries/TV Movi
    • George Wallace
    • Golden Globe Award
  • 1998 – Breakthrough Performance – Female
    • Playing by Heart
    • National Board of Review Award
  • 1999 – Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV
    • Gia
    • Golden Globe Award
  • 1999 – Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries
    • Gia
    • Screen Actors Guild Award
  • 2000 – Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
    • Girl, Interrupted
    • Screen Actors Guild Award
  • 2000 – Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
    • Girl, Interrupted
    • Academy Award
  • 2004 – Favorite Female Action Star
    • Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
    • People’s Choice Award

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