Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian; born on June 4, 1975. Angelina Jolie has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the highest-paid American actresses.For a number of years, she was cited as the world's most beautiful woman. As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in American entertainment industry.
Jolie is typically from an entertainment background, was born in Los Angeles, California, she's the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor.
Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.
Jolie is German and Slovak descent, her mother is primarily French Canadian.
When Jolie was eleven, she enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. Her early attempts at modeling, at her mother's insistence, proved unsuccessful. She attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated among the children of some of the area's affluent families. She was teased by other students for being thin and for wearing glasses and braces.
She dropped out of acting classes and aspired to become a funeral director, taking home courses to study embalming.
She graduated from High School at the age of 16, and rented her own apartment before returning to theater studies.
Angelina Jolie became popular after playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014).
She got her major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector (1999), starring alongside Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de force performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) playing opposite Winona Ryder. The movie was a true story of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the role which won Nicholson his first Oscar. Unlike "Cuckoo", "Girl" was a small film that received mixed reviews and barely made money at the box office. But when it came time to give out awards, Jolie won the triple crown -- "Girl" propelled her to win the Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a supporting role.
Jolie has stated that she now plans to spend most of her time in humanitarian efforts, to be financed by her actress salary. She devotes one third of her income to savings, one third to living expenses and one third to charity.
She separated from her husband Brad Pitt in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.
Angelina Jolie has been married three times to;
Brad Pitt (August 14, 2014 to September 2016)- six children
Billy Bob Thornton (May 5, 2000- May 27, 2003)- Divorced
Jonny Lee Miller (March 28, 1996 - February 3, 1999)- Divorced
Jolie's Salaries from Movies
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) | $7,000,000 |
| Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) | $12,000,000 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) | $10,000,000 |
| The Good Shepherd (2006) | $10,000,000 |
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | $10,000,000 |
| Beowulf (2007) | $8,000,000 |
| Wanted (2008) | $15,000,000 |
| Salt (2010) | $20,000,000 (back end) |
| The Tourist (2010) | $19,000,000 (back end) |
| Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) | $1,000,000 |
| In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) | $2,500,000 |
| Maleficent (2014) | $15,000,000 |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia
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