| Name : | Angelina Jolie |
| Full Name : | Angelina Jolie Voight |
| Date Of Birth : | 4 June 1975 |
| Place Of Birth : | Los Angeles, California |
| Sign : | Gemini |
| Height : | 5' 7" (1.70 m) |
| Hair : | Brown |
| Eyes : | Blue |
| Father : | Jon Voight |
| Mother : | Marcheline Bertrand |
| Brother : | James Haven Voight |
| Spouse : | Billy Bob Thornton (May 2000-present)(actor, director, writer) Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999)(actor) |
| Profession : | Actress |
| Nationality : | American |
| Nicknames : | Angie Catwoman Ange AJ |
Trivia:
- She is niece of Chip Taylor.
- She is one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [2000]
- She is extremely close to and protective of her brother James Haven. He often accompanies her to awards shows, and she used his name, or at least his memory, as inspiration in the "Where's Jamie?!" scene in Girl, Interrupted (1999).
- Angelina Has the letter "H" tattooed on the inside of her left wrist, which is a reference to two people she is close to who have this letter in their names: her brother, James Haven, and Timothy Hutton. She got the tattoo when she was dating Timothy but since their break-up she now says it's only for James.
- Angelina has a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." on her left forearm.
- Angelina was married to Jonny Lee Miller in a black leather pants and a white shirt. On the white shirt she painted her husband's name in her own blood (across the back).
- Tattoos include the Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, and a large black cross.
- Angelina is the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
- She majored in film at New York University.
- She collects knives and has an interest in mortuary science.
- Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair. [2000]
- She had a childhood dream of becoming a funeral director.
- She was named the world's sexiest woman in Swedish magazine Café.
- "Jolie" means "pretty" in French.
- Goddaughter of actress Jacqueline Bisset.
- She has the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me") tattooed across her stomach.
- She was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan. [27 August 2001]
- She was born at 9:09 AM PDT
- "Introducing Angelina Jolie" in opening credits of Love Is All There Is (1996) suggests delayed release as Jolie already had at least two major screen roles by 1996.
- She is of Slovak and American descent on her father's side and French-Canadian and Haudenosaunee (Iroquian Indian) heritage on her mother's side.
- She and Billy Bob Thornton adopted a Cambodian baby boy, named Maddox. Jolie took custody of the baby in Africa, where she was shooting Beyond Borders (2003). [10 March 2002]
- She ranked #87 in Premiere's 2002 annual "Power 100" list.
- In role as goodwill ambassador, visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand, May 2002, to check on conditions of 9,000 refugees from bordering Myanmar.
- July 2002 - confirms break-up with actor Billy Bob Thornton.
- Measurements (before pregnancy): 36C-27-36.
- Announced in late 2002 that she is "in talks" to portray the late porn star Linda Lovelace. Eventually, she lost the role to Courtney Love.
- Voted the 3rd Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
- Her adopted son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, was born on August 5th, 2001 in Cambodia. His original name was Rath Vibol.
- Her favorite Disney character is Dumbo the flying elephant, she has said that she cried when he was able to fly.
- She is the woman most American males would like to date on New Year's Eve, according to a survey by movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. Results of the survey showed her in the top spot with 35 percent of respondents saying she would be their number one pick for a hypothetical New Year's Eve candle-lit dinner. Rival star Catherine Zeta-Jones gained second spot in the online survey conducted by Blockbuster November 11-24, 2003. The survey had 31,969 responses.
- Started modelling at the age of 14.
- Was named "The sexiest woman alive" by the Swedish evening newspaper "Aftonbladet." [2003]
- She was voted the ninth sexiest woman in FHM UK's top 100 sexiest in 2004.
- She is planning to give up her acting career to settle in England with her son Maddox and become a full-time mum. She says she wants to "Quit movies, be a great mum to Maddox and join the Parents and Teachers Association".
- Favorite music: Madonna, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Matchbox Twenty.
- One of her favorite TV shows is "King of the Hill" (1997). She also enjoys the Game Show Network and Animal Planet.
- She was voted #2 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties."
- Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16, the same school as Lenny Kravitz. She also went to school with Michael Klesic and Bahar Soomekh.
- Ranked #6 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World." [2002]
- Has said that she speaks "very little French".
- Voted #1 star most men would like to kiss under the mistletoe in a poll for Sky Movies.
- Used to own several pet reptiles, including two snakes. Therefore she had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004).
- Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York. She graduated from El Rodeo elementary school in 1989.
- Her father starred with her godmother Jacqueline Bisset in Der Richter und sein Henker (1975), which was directed by her godfather Maximilian Schell.
- Voted Hollywood's Sexiest Single Mother, in a poll for website Date.com.
- Consulted with real-life FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler for her role in Taking Lives (2004).
- In 2003 was first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the UN's Correspondents' Association for her work as a goodwill ambassador with the UNHCR.
- July 6th 2005: adopted a baby girl (born on January 8th, 2005) from Ethiopia who was orphaned by AIDS.
- She ranked #2 in 2000 on Mr. Blackwell (aka Richard Selzer)'s Worst Dressed List.
- Named Esquire Magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive in 2004.
- Named Most Beautiful Woman in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2005 issue. More than 500,000 readers were polled.
- In August, 2005 was made an official citizen of Cambodia by the King for her ongoing efforts to help the environment there.
- Was nominated for Worst Actress at the Razzie Awards for four straight years from 2002 to 2005, but each time was beaten by another of her fellow nominees. She has still yet to "win" an award.
- She performed her own stunts in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result. She also set fire to her silk pajamas on the chandelier while she was doing her "bungee jumps" in the house. She was taken to a hospital with minor burns but resumed filming the next day.
- She was named #7 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
- Ranked #1 in E! Television's 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies.
- She gave her Oscar Statuette, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and Critic Choice Award to her mother. She felt she didn't need to hang on to awards.
- Her godfather Maximilian Schell always gave her a doll as a birthday present, from her first to sixteenth. Sometimes it was a modern doll, made of plastic, sometimes it was an old and precious one, made of wood or porcelain.
- Gave her mother the nickname "Great Lady".
- One of the first actresses to win 3 consecutive Golden Globes in 3 different categories: "Best Supporting Actress in a Mini Series": George Wallace (1997) (TV), "Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini Series": Gia (1998) (TV), "Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture": Girl, Interrupted (1999). Coincidentally, all her roles were based on real people.
- She ranked and Voted #3 by AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006
- Topped People magazine`s "100 most beautiful people" list in 2006 (28 April 2006).
- Named #1 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
- She and Brad Pitt welcomed daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt on May 27, 2006 in Namibia, Africa. The government in Namibia is offering citizenship to her new daughter.
- She has tattoos of the coordinates representing the birth countries of each of her kids (she even has the coordinates of France tattooed on her arm twice, one each for Knox and Viv), which cover up the Billy Bob Thornton tattoo (June 2006).
- Holds a Private Pilot Certificate with the Airplane, Single Engine, Land rating. This means that she is qualified to fly any single-engined aircraft based on land (i.e., no seaplanes) under visual flight rules only (i.e., no instrument qualifications yet so she cannot fly in conditions requiring instruments).
- She has a fondness for Liverpool Football Club because her son Maddox "only wants to play for Liverpool".
- She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
- Was the cover girl for the much anticipated issue of Forbes Magazine, in which appeared the infamous Celebrity 100 list. [June 2006]
- Named #4 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2006 list.
- Became the third actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz), when she signed to do Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for that amount.
- Fan of author Ayn Rand.
- Named #2 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
- Is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
- Her mother Marcheline Bertrand died from ovarian cancer in Los Angeles after a 7 1/2 year battle (27 January 2007).
- She and Brad Pitt adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy, Pax Thien Jolie (born November 29, 2003), who was initially named Pham Quang Sang (15 March 2007). Pax had lived in the Tam Binh orphanage because he was found abandoned outside a Ho Chi Minh City hospital shortly after his birth. Since the orphanage does not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent, with Pitt later adopting his son domestically.
- Chosen the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British television show "The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols" (February 2007).
- Was on the "Time 100", a list of the world's 100 most influential people in the world by "Time" magazine, in 2006.
- Ranked #12 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute as are Frank Miranda, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sally Field.
- 2007 - Ranked #33 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
- In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $20 million.
- In 2007, moved to New Orleans with Brad Pitt and their four children.
- In 2006, after the birth of her daughter Shiloh, she sold the first pictures of her newborn for $4,100,000. She later donated the profits to charity.
- Ranked #3 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list.
- The first-ever male to hold Jolie in his arms was Charley Boorman. He'd earlier served as a pageboy at the wedding of Jolie's parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand during the Deliverance (1972) shoot, and later happened to be present during the delivery of Jolie. Boorman was just 8-years-old and Jolie was but an infant. Today (2008) Boorman quips that his epitaph should read: "I was the first man to get his hands on Angelina Jolie".
- Gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France around 8 PM via c-section. Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt weighed 5lbs 3 oz. and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt weighed 5 lbs.
- She was considered for the role of Kelly Kapowski on "Saved by the Bell" (1989).
- Since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, she has visited over 20 countries.
- In an interview about her movie Changeling (2008), Angie revealed that although her mom's name was Marcheline, everyone called her "Marshmallow", because she was such a softie.
- She went to Beverly Hills High School with writer/actor Quincy Rose and Antonia Bennett, the daughter of Tony Bennett.
- She did not return to work until eight months after giving birth to twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon in order to begin filming Salt (2010).
Detailed Biography
Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, and former actress/model Marcheline Bertrand. Jon Voight separated from Bertrand when Jolie was 1, remained in California while the family lived on the East coast. ''He was the perfect example of an artist who couldn't be married,'' she says. ''He had the perfect family, but there's something for him that's very scary about that.'' Jolie, is her middle name. Ultimately, she decided to use it because, she says, ''I love my father, but I'm not him''.
Angelina began training and performing at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at around 12. She was seen in several stage productions at the Institute. She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared in music videos for such artists as the Rolling Stones, Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. In addition, she has acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven. She landed her first feature film starring part in HACKERS, about a group of high school computer hackers. Previously, she had roles in independent features Gathering Evidence and Oh No, Not Her.Angelina was married to her co-star from Hackers, Jonny Lee Miller. The marriage took place in May of 1996 where she wore black rubber clothes (although they are now divorced). She has a extensive dagger collection (likes knives) and has several tattoos (one is the Japanese word for death on her shoulder). Today Angelina splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.
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