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Angelina Jolie Voight
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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is a famous American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has won many awards, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has also been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress several times.
Jolie first appeared on screen as a child with her father, Jon Voight, in the movie Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her acting career really started a decade later with the film Cyborg 2 (1993). She then got her first main role in Hackers (1995). After starring in TV movies like George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), Jolie won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted.
Her role as the hero Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her a leading actress. Jolie continued her success in action films such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010). She also starred in the fantasy film Maleficent (2014) and its 2019 sequel. She lent her voice to animated films like Shark Tale (2004) and the Kung Fu Panda series (2008–2016). She also received praise for her serious acting in A Mighty Heart (2007), Changeling (2008), and Maria (2024).
As a filmmaker, Jolie has directed and written war dramas like In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), First They Killed My Father (2017), and Without Blood (2024). She also produced the musical The Outsiders (2024), which won a Tony Award for Best Musical.
Jolie is also well-known for her humanitarian work. She supports causes like protecting nature, education, and women's rights. She has been a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), helping refugees around the world. She has visited refugee camps and war zones to see the situations firsthand. Besides other honors, Jolie received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. Many people see her as one of the most powerful and influential figures in the American entertainment industry. Her personal life, including her relationships and health, has often been in the news. Jolie has been married to actors Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton, and Brad Pitt. She has six children with Pitt.
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Early Life and Family
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She has a brother named James Haven. Her godparents were actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Jolie has German and Slovak roots from her father's side. From her mother's side, she has Dutch and French ancestry.
After her parents separated in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother. Her mother stopped acting to raise her children. Jolie's mother raised her as a Catholic, but did not make her go to church. As a child, Jolie often watched movies with her mother. This inspired her interest in acting, more than her father's career. She had a small part in her father's movie Lookin' to Get Out (1982) when she was seven.
When Jolie was six, her mother and her partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York. They returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act. She joined the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and trained there for two years, appearing in several plays.
Jolie first went to Beverly Hills High School. She felt different from the other students because her mother had less money than their wealthy families. Other students sometimes teased her. She later moved to Moreno High School, an alternative school. Here, she felt like an outsider and had a rebellious phase. She stopped her acting classes for a while and thought about becoming a funeral director. At 16, she finished high school and got her own apartment. She later returned to studying theater.
Jolie has had a complicated relationship with her father. They reconnected when they worked together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). However, their relationship became difficult again. Jolie asked the court to legally remove her father's last name, Voight, from her name. The change was approved on September 12, 2002. Jolie and her father did not speak for over six years. They eventually rebuilt their relationship after her mother passed away in 2007.
Career Highlights
Early Acting Roles (1991–1997)
Jolie decided to become a professional actress at 16. At first, it was hard for her to get roles because people often said her style was "too dark." She appeared in five student films made by her brother and in several music videos. These included videos for Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991) and Meat Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993).
Jolie's professional film career began in 1993. She played her first main role in the science-fiction movie Cyborg 2. She was not happy with this film and did not try out for any roles for a year. After a small role in Without Evidence (1995), she starred in her first big studio film, Hackers (1995). This role is seen as her big break.
She then appeared in Love Is All There Is (1996), a modern version of Romeo and Juliet. She also starred in Mojave Moon (1996) and Foxfire (1996). In Foxfire, she played Legs, a character who helps four teenage girls stand up to a teacher. In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God. She also appeared in the CBS miniseries True Women (1997) and in the music video for the Rolling Stones's "Anybody Seen My Baby?".
Becoming Well-Known (1998–2000)
Jolie's career improved after she won a Golden Globe Award for her role in TNT's George Wallace (1997). She played Wallace's second wife, Cornelia Wallace. For this role, she also received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Jolie then played supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's Gia (1998). This TV film showed Gia's life and struggles. Many people praised Jolie's strong performance. For the second year in a row, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award. After Gia, she briefly stopped acting to study directing and screenwriting.
After the film Hell's Kitchen (1998), Jolie returned to the screen in Playing by Heart (1998). She was part of a cast that included Sean Connery and Gillian Anderson. Critics liked the film, and Jolie's performance was especially praised. She won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review.
In 1999, Jolie starred in the comedy-drama Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. She then co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999). In this film, she played a police officer helping a detective track a criminal. The film earned $151.5 million worldwide.
Jolie next took a supporting role as Lisa, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, in Girl, Interrupted (1999). For this role, Jolie won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first big summer movie, Gone in 60 Seconds. This became her highest-earning film at the time, making $237.2 million around the world. She had a smaller role as the ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage.
Global Recognition (2001–2004)
In 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider made Jolie an international star. This movie was based on the popular Tomb Raider video games. Jolie had to learn an English accent and train in martial arts to play the adventurer Lara Croft. Even though the film received mixed reviews, Jolie was praised for her physical performance. The movie was a global hit, earning $274.7 million worldwide, and made her known as a female action star.
Jolie then starred with Antonio Banderas in Original Sin (2001). She also appeared in the romantic comedy Life or Something Like It (2002). Despite some films not doing well at the box office, Jolie remained a sought-after actress. By 2002, she was among Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, earning $10–15 million per film.
Jolie played Lara Croft again in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003). This sequel earned $156.5 million globally. Her next film was Beyond Borders (2003), where she played a socialite who joins an aid worker. This film was one of several projects Jolie made to bring attention to humanitarian causes.
In 2004, Jolie appeared in four films. She starred in the thriller Taking Lives as an FBI profiler. She also had a brief role as a fighter pilot in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. She voiced her first family film, the DreamWorks animation Shark Tale. Her supporting role as Queen Olympias in Oliver Stone's Alexander received mixed reviews. The film did not do well in North America but was successful internationally, earning $167.3 million.
Becoming an Established Actress (2005–2010)
In 2005, Jolie had a major box office success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith. She starred with Brad Pitt as a married couple who discover they are both secret assassins. The film was praised for the chemistry between Jolie and Pitt. It earned $478.2 million worldwide, making it one of the highest-grossing films of the year.
After a supporting role in The Good Shepherd (2006), Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in the drama A Mighty Heart (2007). This film was based on Pearl's memoir about her husband, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered. Jolie's performance was widely praised. She also played Grendel's mother in the epic Beowulf (2007), which was made using motion capture technology. The film was successful, earning $196.4 million worldwide.
In 2008, Jolie was the highest-paid actress. She starred with James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action film Wanted (2008), which was a global success, earning $341.4 million. Critics generally liked the film, and Jolie was praised for her role as an assassin.
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Jolie then took the lead role in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling (2008). She played Christine Collins, a mother whose son goes missing. Her performance earned her nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie also voiced Tigress in the DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda film series.
After her mother's passing in 2007, Jolie appeared in fewer films. Her first film in two years was the 2010 thriller Salt. She starred as a CIA agent accused of being a KGB spy. The role was originally written for a male actor, but it was changed for Jolie. Salt was an international success, earning $293.5 million, and Jolie's performance was highly praised.
Jolie starred with Johnny Depp in the thriller The Tourist (2010). The film received mixed reviews, but it did well at the international box office. Jolie received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.
Directing and Recent Work (2011–Present)
After directing the documentary A Place in Time (2007), Jolie made her first feature film as a director, In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). This was a love story set during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. She wanted to bring attention to the survivors of the war. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Jolie was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo.
After a break from acting, Jolie starred in Maleficent (2014). This was a live-action retelling of Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty. Critics had mixed feelings about the film, but Jolie's performance as Maleficent was widely praised. The film earned $757.8 million worldwide, becoming Jolie's highest-grossing film.
Jolie then directed her second film, Unbroken (2014). This movie was about Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner and World War II soldier who survived a plane crash and spent two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. The film was successful at the box office.
Jolie's next directing project was the drama By the Sea (2015), where she starred opposite her husband, Brad Pitt. This was their first time working together since Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film was a very personal project for Jolie.
As Jolie focused more on her humanitarian work, her film roles became less frequent. First They Killed My Father (2017) was a drama set during Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era. Jolie directed and co-wrote the screenplay. The film was made for Netflix and featured an all-Khmer cast. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
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Jolie played Maleficent again in the Disney sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). The film received mixed reviews but did well commercially, earning $490 million globally. In 2020, she appeared in Come Away as a grieving parent. Jolie then starred as a smokejumper in the action thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021). Her performance was praised. Jolie also played Thena, a warrior, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, released in November 2021.
Jolie was a producer for the musical The Outsiders when it moved to Broadway in 2024. She won a Tony Award for Best Musical for this. She also wrote, produced, and directed the 2024 war drama Without Blood. Jolie starred in Pablo Larraín's film Maria, about opera singer Maria Callas, which premiered in 2024. Her performance was called a "career-best" and earned her another Golden Globe nomination.
Humanitarian Work
UNHCR Special Envoy
Jolie first saw the effects of a humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in Cambodia, a country affected by war. This experience helped her understand the world better. When she returned home, Jolie contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to learn about troubled areas. To understand the conditions, she started visiting refugee camps worldwide. In February 2001, she made her first visit to Sierra Leone and Tanzania. She was shocked by what she saw.
In the following months, Jolie returned to Cambodia and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. She donated $1 million to a UNHCR emergency appeal, which was the largest donation UNHCR had ever received from a private person at that time. She paid for all her mission costs and lived in the same basic conditions as UNHCR staff. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001.
Over the next ten years, she went on more than 40 missions, meeting refugees and displaced people in over 30 countries. In 2002, she said she hoped to raise "Awareness of the plight of these people." Her visits from 2001–02 were written about in her book Notes from My Travels, published in 2003.
Jolie aimed to visit "forgotten emergencies," crises that the media no longer focused on. She became known for traveling to war zones, like Sudan's Darfur region and the Syrian-Iraqi border during the Iraq War. She even met with U.S. troops. To help with her travels, she started taking flying lessons in 2004, hoping to fly aid workers and supplies around the world. She got her pilot's license in 2004.
On April 17, 2012, after more than ten years as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to Special Envoy to High Commissioner António Guterres. This was a new role within the organization. In this expanded role, she could represent Guterres and UNHCR at a diplomatic level, focusing on major refugee crises. She visited Ecuador to meet Colombian refugees and toured Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq with Guterres to assess the situation of Syrian refugees. Since then, Jolie has been on many missions worldwide to meet refugees and advocate for them.
Jolie stepped down from her ambassadorship in December 2022. She stated that she would continue to speak up for refugees.
Conservation and Community Development
To help her Cambodian-born adopted son connect with his heritage, Jolie bought a house in Cambodia in 2003. The house was on 39 hectares near Samlout national park, which had problems with poachers. She bought 60,000 hectares of the park and turned it into a wildlife reserve named the Maddox Jolie Project.
In November 2006, Jolie expanded the project, renaming it the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP). It aimed to create Asia's first Millennium Village, following UN development goals. She was inspired by economist Jeffrey Sachs at the World Economic Forum in Davos. They filmed an MTV special in 2005, The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, showing their trip to a Millennium Village in Kenya. By mid-2007, MJP had schools, roads, and a soy milk factory, all funded by Jolie. Her home serves as the MJP headquarters.
After filming Beyond Borders (2003) in Namibia, Jolie became a patron of the Harnas Wildlife Foundation, a wildlife orphanage. In December 2010, Jolie and Brad Pitt created the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation to support conservation work at the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary in the Kalahari Desert. Named after their Namibian-born daughter, they have funded animal conservation projects, a free health clinic, housing, and a school for the San Bushmen community. Jolie and Pitt support other causes through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, started in September 2006.
Child Immigration and Education
Jolie has supported laws to help child immigrants and other vulnerable children in the U.S. and developing countries. She lobbied for humanitarian interests in Washington, D.C., from 2003 onwards. Since October 2008, she has co-chaired Kids in Need of Defense (KIND). This group provides free legal help to unaccompanied children in immigration cases across the U.S. KIND was started by Jolie and Microsoft Corporation. By 2013, KIND was the main provider of free lawyers for immigrant children.
Jolie has also advocated for children's education. Since its start in September 2007, she has co-chaired the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. This partnership provides funding and policies for education programs for children in conflict areas. In its first year, it supported education for Iraqi refugee children, children affected by the Darfur conflict, and girls in Afghanistan. Since April 2013, all money from Jolie's jewelry collection, Style of Jolie, has gone to this partnership. Jolie also helped launch the Malala Fund, a grant system started by Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, contributing over $200,000 herself.
Jolie has funded a school and boarding facility for girls at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, which opened in 2005. She also funded two primary schools for girls in Afghanistan, which opened in 2010 and 2012. In addition to facilities in Cambodia, Jolie had built at least ten other schools there by 2005. In February 2006, she opened the Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for children affected by HIV. In Sebeta, Ethiopia, she funds the Zahara Children's Center, which treats and educates children with HIV or tuberculosis.
Jolie is an executive producer for the BBC program My World. This show teaches teenagers how to think critically about news. She and Amnesty International released a children's rights book called Know Your Rights and Claim Them on September 2, 2021. She co-authored the book with British human rights lawyer Geraldine Van Bueren.
Human Rights and Women's Rights
After joining the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in June 2007, Jolie hosted a symposium on international law. She also funded several CFR reports, including "Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities." In January 2011, she started the Jolie Legal Fellowship, a group of lawyers who work to improve human rights in their countries.
Jolie has led a campaign against violence in military conflict zones with the UK government. ..... PSVI aims to raise awareness and promote international cooperation. Jolie spoke about this at the G8 foreign ministers meeting and before the UN security council. .....
Through her work on PSVI, Jolie met experts Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic. Their collaboration led to the 2015 founding of Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic, a partnership for women's rights and international justice. In May 2016, Jolie was appointed a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. In February 2022, Jolie visited Washington, D.C. to support the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. She also advocates for Kayden's Law, which focuses on trauma-informed court processes for children. Jolie supports the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2022, a law to improve crime victims' rights.
In September 2020, Jolie donated to two boys running a lemonade stand in London to raise money for people in Yemen. In March 2022, Jolie visited Ukrainian children at the Vatican Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù. She said she was "praying for an end to the war." In May 2022, Jolie visited Lviv, Ukraine, to meet more displaced and hospitalized children.
In 2023, Jolie spoke out against Israel's military actions in Gaza during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. She condemned the "deliberate bombing of a trapped population" and called for a humanitarian ceasefire.
Awards and Recognition
Jolie has received many awards for her humanitarian work. In August 2002, she received the first Humanitarian Award from the Church World Service. In October 2003, she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. She was given the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA in October 2005 and the Freedom Award from the International Rescue Committee in November 2007. In October 2011, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres gave Jolie a gold pin for her decade of service as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
In November 2013, Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Academy Award, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In June 2014, she was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) for her work on UK foreign policy and campaigning to end violence in war zones. Queen Elizabeth II presented her with this honor in October 2014.
Personal Life
Relationships and Marriages
Jolie had a serious boyfriend for two years starting at age 14. Her mother allowed them to live together at home. Jolie later said this helped her explore her first relationship safely. She compared the relationship to a marriage in its emotional intensity.
While filming Hackers (1995), Jolie started a relationship with actor Jonny Lee Miller. They married in March 1996. Jolie wore black rubber pants and a white T-shirt with his name written in her blood at the wedding. The relationship ended the next year, with Jolie saying their busy work schedules kept them apart. Their divorce was finalized in 1999.
Jolie also had a relationship with model and actress Jenny Shimizu after meeting on the set of Foxfire (1996). She said she would have married Shimizu if she hadn't married Miller. In 2003, when asked if she was bisexual, Jolie confirmed she was.
After a two-month courtship, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas. They had met on the set of Pushing Tin (1999). Their marriage became a popular topic in the media because of their public displays of affection, like wearing each other's blood in vials. Jolie and Thornton announced they were adopting a child from Cambodia in March 2002, but they separated three months later. Thornton filed for divorce, saying their lifestyles were too different. Their divorce was finalized on May 27, 2003.
Jolie became involved in a prominent media story when she was accused of causing the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston in 2005. Jolie said she fell in love with Pitt while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). ..... Neither Jolie nor Pitt publicly commented on their relationship until January 2006, when she confirmed they were expecting their first child together.
During their 12-year relationship, the couple was called "Brangelina" by the media. They were considered one of Hollywood's most glamorous couples. Their family grew to include six children, three adopted and three biological. They announced their engagement in April 2012. Jolie and Pitt legally married on August 14, 2014, in a private ceremony in France. She then used the name "Angelina Jolie Pitt." After two years of marriage, they separated on September 15, 2016. Jolie filed for divorce on September 19, citing irreconcilable differences. They were declared legally single on April 12, 2019.
Children
Jolie has six children: three adopted internationally and three biological.
On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia. He was born on August 5, 2001. Jolie and her then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton, met Maddox in November 2001 and applied to adopt him. ..... Jolie's adoption of Maddox was later confirmed as lawful. She took custody of Maddox in Namibia. Jolie adopted Maddox alone after her separation from Thornton.
Jolie adopted her second child, six-month-old Zahara Marley, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005. Jolie initially thought Zahara was an orphan due to AIDS, but Zahara's birth mother later said she had abandoned her family when Zahara became sick. Jolie was with Brad Pitt when she traveled to Ethiopia to take custody of Zahara. After Pitt announced his intention to adopt her children, Jolie filed to legally change their surname to Jolie-Pitt, which was granted on January 19, 2006. Pitt adopted Maddox and Zahara soon after.
To avoid media attention, Jolie and Pitt went to Namibia for the birth of their first biological child. On May 27, 2006, she gave birth to Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund. They sold the first pictures of Shiloh to benefit charity. People and Hello! magazines bought the rights to the images for millions of dollars, which were donated to UNICEF.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted her fourth child, three-year-old Pax Thien, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pax was born on November 29, 2003. Jolie adopted him as a single parent because Vietnam's rules did not allow unmarried couples to adopt together. After returning to the U.S., she asked the court to change Pax Thien's surname to Jolie-Pitt, which was approved on May 31. Pitt later adopted Pax on February 21, 2008.
At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Jolie confirmed she was expecting twins. She gave birth in July 2008 to Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt in Nice, France. The first pictures of the twins were sold to People and Hello! for a reported $14 million, making them the most expensive celebrity photographs ever taken at the time. All proceeds were donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Cambodian Citizenship
In 2004, then-Prime Minister Hun Sen offered Jolie Cambodian nationality because of her humanitarian work in the country. Cambodia is special to Jolie as it is the birthplace of her adopted son, Maddox Chivan. In 2005, King Norodom Sihamoni granted Jolie Cambodian citizenship through a royal decree.
Health and Cancer Prevention
On February 16, 2013, at age 37, Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy. This was because she learned she had a high risk (87%) of developing breast cancer due to a faulty BRCA1 gene. Her mother and grandmother had both had cancer. Her aunt, who had the same gene defect, passed away from breast cancer three months after Jolie's operation. After the mastectomy, which lowered her breast cancer risk to under five percent, Jolie had reconstructive surgery.
..... She had a fifty percent risk of developing ovarian cancer due to the same genetic issue. This surgery caused her to go through premature menopause.
After each operation, Jolie wrote articles for The New York Times about her mastectomy and oophorectomy. She wanted to help other women make informed health choices. She shared details about her diagnosis, surgeries, and personal experiences. She described her decision as a proactive step for her six children. Jolie also wrote: "On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."
Jolie's announcement about her mastectomy received a lot of attention and led to discussions about BRCA gene mutations and genetic testing. Her decision was praised by many public figures, and health campaigners welcomed her efforts to raise awareness. This impact was called "The Angelina Effect" by a Time magazine cover story. It led to a "global and long-lasting" increase in BRCA gene testing.
Film Credits and Awards
Jolie has appeared in over thirty films since 1982. Some of her well-known and successful films include Playing by Heart (1998), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), A Mighty Heart (2007), Changeling (2008), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), and Maleficent (2014). Her television projects include True Women (1997), George Wallace (1997), and Gia (1998).
Jolie has also directed several films, such as In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), By the Sea (2015), First They Killed My Father (2017), and Without Blood (2024).
Jolie has received many awards, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. She has also been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
See also
In Spanish: Angelina Jolie para niños
- Aptostichus angelinajolieae
- List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
- White Marc Bouwer dress of Angelina Jolie
