Angelina Joli
(Actress)
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Angelina Joli is an American actress who is as renowned for her exotic looks,full lips, who chils image,numerous tattos and humanitarian work with refugees as for her acting ability.She is a respected three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the movie Girl,Interrupted.Additionally,Jolie has starred in five student movies,all of which were directed by her brother James Haven.
As of July 2005, Jolie became the third acterss to join the coveted "20 Million Club" (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz),when she singed to do Mr and Mrs Smith (2005) for that amount.
Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertand.She is of Czech,French-Canadian,and lroquois descent.As a child she dreamed of becoming a successful director.She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11,later attending Beverly Hills High School.Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia,she did not complete her studies.
Jolie has been long estranged from her father,though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.In the October 2004 issue of premiere Magazine,Jolie indicated that she was no longer intersted in pursuing a relationship with her father.Soon after he exploited a claim that she has "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood, she legally dropped Voight as her last name.
Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation High Commission for Refugees since 2001,and frepuently travels to far-flung countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations.In 2003,she published Notes from My Travels,a collection of journal entries chronicing her early work with the U.N.In a january 2005 interview with Reuters,Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being committed enough in helping others,and stated that she gives one-third of her income to charitable organizations.
Jolie was also one of the first celebrities to accept an invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic torch during the 2004 Olympic Games, though she was ultimately unable to participate due to filming commitments.
In the fall of 2004,it was reported that Jolie has started proceedings to adopt another child,this time from Russia.Howerver,no adoption ever took place.
Around the same time,Lauryn Galindo,the Hawalibased adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox,was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges.She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. citizenship and lmmigration Services,and several of the children she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed awey or bought from their birth families.It does not appear that Maddox was among them,although the investigation is continuing.
For several years prior to mid 2005,Jolie endured a professional dry spell in which she did not have a hit movie.Several of her movies,such as Alexander,Sky Captain,and Tomb Raider:The Cradle of Life were major box office disappointments although Jolie usually received good notices.She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film,Shark Tale.Nonetheless her exotic looks and acting talent still make her one of Hollywood's most in demand actresses.
In early 2005,Jolie found herself at the center of a wellpublicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the "other woman"in the marital break-up of Brad pitt and Jennifer Aniston,The allegation was that she and pitt had started and affair during filming of the spy comedy Mr.and Mrs.Smith,something she denies.
In march 2005,Jolie was named the 3rd sexiest woman in the world by FHM
magazine out of million worldwide votes.
Jolie continues to balance the demands of being a movie star with that of being a humanitarian,despit an apparently grueling schedule.On June 7,2005,the Associated press wire service reported on Jolie giving a presentation in Lslamabad, Pakistan.That very same day,she attended the premiere of Mr.and Mrs.Smith in Los Angeles.Smith in Los Angeles.
She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire,UK and reportedly plans to purchase property in Cambodia.
In late June 2005,the New York post reported a claim that Jolie is pregnant,a report later republished on june 30 by Britain's Sky TV,Sun Media Corporation in Canada,and the Asian Hindustan Times,among others.Her publicsts presently deny this report.On july 5, 2005,people magazine reported that Jolie was in the final stages of adopting a baby girl,who had been orphaned by AIDS,from Ethiopia.Jolie has named her daughter Zahara Marley Jlie.
Anjelina Jolie's Quotes
* People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
* I wish i could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into me face.
* I've been reckless,but i'm not a rebel without a cause.
* I do have tatoos,and i do wear leather,but there are other sides of me,that my film express.
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