Angelina Jolie

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Full Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Date of birth: June 4, 1975 (51 years old)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Country: USA

Angelina Jolie has been active for 44 years, participating in 45 movies that average a 6.6/10 score.

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Biography

The first time Angelina Jolie appeared on screen she was seven years old and her father had got her the part. The film was 'Lookin' to Get Out' (1982), a minor comedy that Jon Voight starred in and co-wrote, and she played his character's daughter. It took another ten years for her to walk onto a set again, and that time she did it on her own.

She was born in Los Angeles on 4 June 1975, the daughter of Voight and the actress Marcheline Bertrand. Her parents split when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother, first in New York and later in California, along with her older brother James Haven. As a teenager she trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, the same school where her mother had studied acting.

From Hackers to an Oscar

Her early jobs were low budget, starting with 'Cyborg 2' (1993). The one that got her noticed was 'Hackers' (1995), where she played Kate Libby and met Jonny Lee Miller, whom she married the following year.

Television did the rest. She won two Golden Globes back to back for the HBO films 'George Wallace' (1997) and 'Gia' (1998), the second one about the model Gia Carangi, and moved from there into 'Girl, Interrupted' (1999), adapted from Susanna Kaysen's memoir about her time in a psychiatric hospital. Her Lisa Rowe, a manipulative and magnetic psychiatric patient who ate every scene she shared with Winona Ryder, won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

That same year she also appeared in 'The Bone Collector', a police thriller opposite Denzel Washington and her first big studio cast.

Lara Croft and the action years

With the statuette barely on the shelf she took a part almost nobody saw coming: the video game archaeologist in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' (2001), much of it shot at Pinewood. It worked at the box office, produced a sequel in 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life' (2003) and made her something Hollywood had very little of, a woman who could carry an action franchise on her own.

There were quieter jobs too, such as the unhappy wife of a CIA man in 'The Good Shepherd' (2006), the spy drama Robert De Niro directed, or the motion captured Grendel's mother in 'Beowulf' (2007). Those years also brought 'Gone in Sixty Seconds' (2000), 'Original Sin' (2001), Olympias in 'Alexander' (2004) and the animated Lola of 'Shark Tale' (2004).

In 2005 she shot 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' with Brad Pitt, directed by Doug Liman. The marriage and machine guns comedy was a huge hit and the start of the most talked about relationship of the decade.

The rest of that stretch was physical work and studio assignments: 'Wanted' (2008), 'Salt' (2010), 'The Tourist' (2010) with Johnny Depp, and the voice of Tigress across the 'Kung Fu Panda' trilogy, which began in 2008 and ran to 'Kung Fu Panda 3' (2016).

Changeling and the move behind the camera

She found room for two serious parts in the middle of all that. In 'A Mighty Heart' (2007) she played Mariane Pearl, widow of the journalist Daniel Pearl. In 'Changeling' (2008), directed by Clint Eastwood, she was a mother who takes on the Los Angeles police after they hand her back a boy who is not her son. It brought her a second Oscar nomination, this time for lead actress.

In 2011 she stepped behind the camera with 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', about the Bosnian war, which she also wrote and produced. Then came 'Unbroken' (2014), 'By the Sea' (2015), in which she also acted opposite Pitt, and 'First They Killed My Father' (2017), shot in Khmer for Netflix. Cambodia, whose citizenship she has held since 2005, picked it as its entry for the foreign language Oscar.

She has produced other people's films with the same instincts, from the Ethiopian drama 'Difret' (2014) to the Oscar nominated Afghan animation 'The Breadwinner' (2017).

Her fifth film as a director, 'Without Blood', an adaptation of the Alessandro Baricco novel starring Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir, premiered at Toronto in 2024 and reaches American cinemas in September 2026.

As an actress, her most lucrative role in this period was 'Maleficent' (2014), which passed 700 million dollars worldwide and got a follow up in 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' (2019), with Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer. After that came her one Marvel outing, Thena in 'Eternals' (2021), directed by Chloé Zhao and released a few months after she won her directing Oscar, and Taylor Sheridan's thriller 'Those Who Wish Me Dead' (2021).

Callas, fashion and a Tony

The role that put her back in the awards conversation was 'Maria' (2024), in which Pablo Larraín had her play the soprano's final days in 1970s Paris. She spent months with singing coaches and her voice is blended with Callas's own recordings in the film. The Venice premiere ended with an eight minute ovation and Jolie in tears, and Netflix took the film soon afterwards. A Golden Globe nomination and a Gotham tribute followed, though the Academy left her off its list.

In 2025 she premiered 'Couture' at Toronto, directed by the French filmmaker Alice Winocour. She plays an American director who receives a breast cancer diagnosis while shooting during Paris Fashion Week, a plot that in her case reads on more than one level. Reviews were mixed, and almost all of them singled out her performance.

Away from film, in 2023 she launched Atelier Jolie, a brand and collaborative workshop housed in a downtown New York building once owned by Andy Warhol and used as a studio by Basquiat, with a café run by refugees. In June 2024 she won her first Tony Award as a producer of the musical 'The Outsiders', which took best musical. Her daughter Vivienne worked on the production and is credited in the programme.

Next up is a return to action: 'The Initiative', an espionage thriller that reunites her with Doug Liman twenty years after 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith', with Jolie as a veteran operative called Bright.

Health, children and the causes

In May 2013 she published a piece in 'The New York Times' called 'My Medical Choice', explaining that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a BRCA1 mutation that gave her an estimated 87 per cent risk of breast cancer. In March 2015 she wrote again, this time about having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. Her mother had died of ovarian cancer in 2007, aged 56.

That first article sent genetic testing referrals climbing in clinics around the world, a spike the press ended up calling the Angelina effect. It is still the public gesture her name is most tied to.

Her work with UNHCR began in 2001 as a goodwill ambassador and ended in December 2022, when she stepped down as special envoy after more than sixty field missions. Britain has recognised that side of her more than most: in June 2014 she was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to UK foreign policy and the campaign against sexual violence in conflict, and in 2016 she joined the London School of Economics as a visiting professor, helping launch its Centre for Women, Peace and Security alongside William Hague.

She has six children: Maddox, Pax and Zahara, adopted in Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia, and Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, born between 2006 and 2008. Since 2024 several of them have gone to the Californian courts to drop Pitt from their names. Shiloh did it on turning eighteen, and in July 2026 Vivienne, Zahara and Maddox followed.

She married three times: Jonny Lee Miller between 1996 and 2000, Billy Bob Thornton between 2000 and 2003, and Brad Pitt in 2014 after a decade together. She filed for divorce in 2016 and the settlement was not signed off until December 2024. They are still fighting over Château Miraval, the Provence winery they bought together, with the trial set for 2027.

At fifty, with a filmography that has nothing left to prove, she says she wants to spend more time outside the United States and that she hasn't been in a relationship since the split. Given how often she has moved to the other side of the camera over the past decade, it's hard to picture her stopping.