Full Name:
Angelina Jolie Voight
Nicknames: Angie, Jellybean, and Bunny
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: June 4, 1975
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California. USA
Sign: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Aries
Height: 5'7"
Relations: Father: Jon Voight (actor); mother: Marcheline Bertrand (former
actress); brother: James Haven Voight (director); ex-husband: Billy Bob Thornton
(actor, director, writer); ex-husband: Jonny Lee Miller (actor)
Education: Attended Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and New York University
(majored in film
Film Debut: "Lookin' to Get Out" at the age of seven.
Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles in 1975.
Her father, the brilliant actor Jon Voight, seperated from Jolie's mother when
Angelina was two years old. Angelina, her brother and mother, moved to New York
where they regularly moved from one apartment to the other. She was trained
in acting from an early age, which was pushed by both of her parents. In fact,
both Angelina and her brother were given middle names that could function as
last names in case they wanted to drop Voight from the prospective stage names.
When she was 11, she moved back to Los Angeles, and got a slight taste for the
Hollywood life by attending award shows with her father.
She has done a number of smaller projects including
HACKERS (where she met her ex-husband Jonny Lee Miller whom she wed
at age 20), FOXFIRE,
and
CYBORG II. However, it was the made for TV movie GEORGE WALLACE (in
which she won a
Golden Golbe for Best Supporting Actress) that began to snag people's attention.
She followed up the award with another Golden Globe award, this time for Best
Actress in the made for television film GIA.
She has since held her own impressively in
PUSHING TIN alongside Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack.
Facts about Angelina Jolie:
Performed
her own stunts in 'Tomb
Raider' and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result.
She was paid $ 7,000,000 to play Lara Croft in
Tomb
Raider.
"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 extremely close to and protective of her brother Jamie. 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).
Graduated from Beverly Hills High
School at age 16.
Has the Latin phrase "Quod
me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me")
tattooed across her stomach.
Personal quotes:
"I am so in love with my brother right now!"-
RS. Issue 858/859.
"Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing
that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But
if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be." - Premiere. 12.2000.
"I'd go from film to film and almost detach
from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having
a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark." - Premiere.
12.2000.
-Angelina Jolie
"I thought they were hidden, but some guy
kept looking at me strange. Finally, I said, 'They're my wife's.' I don't think
it's strange at all."
[Billy Bob Thorton on being spotted at the gym wearing wife Angelina Jolie's
underwear]