Angelina Jolie bio

Angelina Jolie biography:

Name: Angelina Jolie
Birth Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Height: 5'7"
Nationality: American
Birth Date: June 4, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation: actress, model
Education: Lee Strasberg Theater Institute (enrolled at age 11)
New York University (majored in Film; attended night classes, 1997)
Husband/Wife: Billy Bob Thornton (actor, director; played together in Pushing Tin; married in Las Vegas on May 5, 2000), Jonny Lee Miller (actor; played together in Hackers; married on March 28, 1996; separated on October 1, 1997; filed for divorce on February 3, 1999)
Relationship: Timothy Hutton (actor; dated 1998-1999)
Father: John Voight (actor; married on December 12, 1971; separated in 1976; divorced in 1978)
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand (former actress; born in 1950)
Brother: James Haven Voight (director; born on May 11, 1973)
Uncle: Chip Taylor (aka James Wesley Voight; musician)
Son: Maddox (adopted)

Fan Mail: C/O William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA



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.