Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie , born Pretty Voight the June 4th 1975 with Los Angeles, is a Actrice American E. She received three Golden Globes , two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two nominations with the Emmy Awards , as well as the Oscar of the female best supporting role for her performance in a stolen life . For a few years it has been also Ambassador of good will for the Office of the High Commission of the United Nations for the refugees.

Youth and family

Angelina Jolie is the girl of the actor Jon Voight and the actress Marcheline Bertrand. She has Czechoslovakian and German as regards her father and Franco-Canadian origins on the side of her mother. She also has in her Québécois ascent an ancestor Iroquois. She is niece Taylor the Chip, the sister of the realizer James Haven and the goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.

After the divorce of their parents in 1976, small Angelina, then one year old, and his/her big brother, James, are raised by their mother who moves with them in Palisades, New York. She regularly sees films with her mother, which very early develops its passion for the cinema.

At the 7 years age, it appears in Lookin' to Get Out , a film Co-writing by her father in whom he also plays. To 11 years, its family goes back food to Los Angeles and it from now on is decided to become actress. She is registered in Lee Strasberg Theater Institute where she takes courses during two years and appears in various productions.

Coed with the Beverly Hills High School , Angelina does not feel at ease in the middle of all these beautiful girls who make fun of her appearance and her behavior that they consider odd. Angelina collects the Serpent S and the Lézard S, and his/her classmates also criticize his thinness, its glasses or its clothing which is not mark, because the mother of Angelina is not as fortunate as that of the others. The confidence of Angelina in itself is shaken besides when it fails becoming mannequin. Angelina is then a sad young girl who feels useless, and in moments of depression, it begins to scarify, that about which it speaks now freely, for example during its appearance in Inside the Actors Studio .

At 14 years, it gives up the courses of theater and is at the head put to become director of Undertaking. She then starts a made lifestyle of excess, only black carries and is tinted the hair purple. Two years later, it leaves her boyfriend of the time and moves in an apartment far from her mother. Angelina is then 16 years old and it turns over to the theater and the college, but even today, by evoking this period, it stresses that “it is always, in its heart, small a Punk with tattooings”.

Pretty was a long time in cold with his/her father, the actor Jon Voight, because it reproached him for having caused the fracture of the family by leaving her mother. A reconciliation was indeed tried when it appeared at its sides in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , but in the number of October 2004 of First Magazine , Jolie stated more not to be interested by the idea to continue a relation with his/her father, even if she does not hate it. A little later this one declared in Access Hollywood that his/her daughter suffered from serious emotional problems, and Angelina then made withdraw Voight of its name, becoming simply Angelina Jolie. She entrusts more not to want to speak publicly about the reasons for which she does not want to see her father any more, and thinks in addition that he would not be healthy for his Maddox son to meet it. Jon Voight thus never met his/her small son.

Pretty, on the other hand very near to his/her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, was devastated by the death of the latter, the January 27th 2007, was carried by a cancer at the 56 years age.

Angelina Jolie is currently the partner of the American actor Brad Pitt, with which it has a little girl, Shiloh Nouvel Pretty-Pitt, that they raise together in addition to the three other children adoptive by Angelina Jolie.

Career

Before becoming actress, Angelina Jolie was mannequin. She was represented by the agency Finesse Model Management and worked as well in the United States as in Europe. She also appeared in varied vidéos clips, of KoЯn ( Did My Time ) to Meat Loaf ( Rock' Roll Dreams Like Through ), while passing by Lenny Kravitz ( Stand by My Woman ) and The Rolling Stones ( Anybody Seen My Baby ). With It had started to learn from his/her father, observing how he looked at people, how he spoke to them, and during a time she ceased disputing with him, judging that they were finally both of the drama queens .

Angelina Jolie obtains roles quickly, as in Cyborg 2 (1993) or Hackers (1995). Its first steps with the cinema took place very early, at the seven years age, in the film Lookin' to Get Out of Hal Ashby, but its cinematographic career took its take-off only well later, with its interpretation of LISA in the film a stolen life ( Girl Interrupted ) in 1999 which was very noticed. She accepted for this one of many rewards of which the Oscar of the female best supporting role.

This notoriety was then reinforced when one proposed to him the role of Lara Croft, the main character of the film adaptation of the Video game Tomb Raider .

World mediatization of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and his success will complete to install this notoriety and to give to Angelina Jolie its first great success with the boxoffice .

Love life

The March 28th 1996, Angelina Jolie Marie with the British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her partner in Hackers. Pretty and Miller divorce the February 3rd 1999, then Angelina Jolie remarie with the American actor Billy Bob Thornton the May 5th 2000. Their relation is strongly médiatisée because of their frequent and eccentric demonstrations of love in public, then they divorce the May 27th 2003.

In did an interview with Barbara Walters, Jolie declare “ If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, it would be correct to want to embrace it and touch it? If I fall in love with it? Absolutely! Yes! ” the mannequin and American actress Jenny Shimizu claims to maintain an love affair and sexual long time with Angelina Jolie. Let us recall that Jenny Shimizu was her partner in Foxfire . One also lends to him a short connection with the Frenchwoman Ann Scott, also ex mannequin become writer.

Brad Pitt

In 2005, Jolie was found within a controversy, relayed by all the American media, while being shown to have broken the marriage of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. These allegations were carried during the turning of the comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith whose Pretty and Pitt divided the poster. At the time, she had contradicted any connection with the actor. Today their relation became official, but each time Angelina Jolie is questioned on the question, she recalls that this relation began only once the turning of this finished film.

Adoptions

March 10th, 2002: Angelina Jolie adopts its first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie, which will take the name of Pretty-Pitt later. It was born on August 5th, 2001 with Rath Vibol in Kampuchea, and lived in a Cambodgien orphanage. Angelina Jolie saw Maddox for the first time at the time of a pause on turning Lara Croft: Tomb Raider . With its request, Billy Bob Thornton, whose name was reproduced on papers of adoption of origin, gave up its right of paternity after their divorce.

Lauryn Galindo, intermediary between Pretty and the center of adoption charged with Maddox, were condemned to 18 months of prison after having pled guilty for frauds of visa and money whitening. Lauryn Galindo had falsified files of children who were to be adopted, unquestionable had not been abandoned but catch with their families with the birth. There is no proof that Maddox belongs to these children but an investigation is in hand. Maddox is however officially American citizen and there is no indication that could be cancelled in the future.

July 5th, 2005: People Magazine reveals that Angelina Jolie is at the final stage of a procedure of adoption for a little girl become orphan because of the AIDS in Ethiopia. Pretty his/her Pretty-Pitt little girl Zahara Marley will name.

A woman in London stated to be the biological mother of Zahara. Following that, in September 2005, at the time of its arrival to the emission “ The Situation Room ” on CNN devoted to the fight against AIDS, Angelina Jolie repeated that her daughter was well orphan virus, meaning of this fact that the biological mother of Zahara had died well of this disease. The father is not known. In October of this same year, an Ethiopian judge débouté the woman who claimed to be the mother of Zahara. A few months earlier, another woman had already affirmed to be the grandmother of Zahara. The declaration had also been recognized without base.

The American magazine Us Weekly wrongfully indicated that Jolie and Brad Pitt had adopted Zahara together. When the magazine carried out its error, the presses were stopped but of the copies had been sold already. The magazine presented its excuses to the couple.

In December, on the other hand, it was confirmed that Pitt sought to legally adopt the two children of Angelina Jolie, and on January 19th, 2006, a Californian judge approved this request and officially changed family names for Pretty-Pitt.

March 15th, 2007, Angelina Jolie adopted a third child, a Vietnamese little boy of a Ho-Chi-Minh City orphanage. Persons in charge of the Vietnamese government specified that the child, recorded under the name of Pham Quang Sang, had been renamed Pax Thien Jolie. Given up with its birth in a hospital, it was old of almost three years and half at the time of the adoption. This one was ratified after the signature of the official documents by the actress and the full power of the embassy of the United States.

Children

  • Maddox Chivan Pretty-Pitt , first adoptive child, born on August 5th, 2001 with the Kampuchea.

  • Zahara Marley Pretty-Pitt , second adoptive child, born on January 8th, 2005 in Ethiopia. Zahara means “luminous” in Arabic, and its second first name, “Marley,” were given to him in homage to the singer jamaïcain Bob Marley.

  • New Shiloh Pretty-Pitt , first biological child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, born on May 27th, 2006 in Namibia. According to a translation of the bible, Shiloh “the peaceful one”, and its second first name, " Nouvel" , was given to him in homage to the French architect Jean Nouvel.

  • Pax Thien Pretty-Pitt , of its true name Pham Quang Blood, third adoptive child, born on November 23rd, 2003 with the Vietnam. Pax means (" paix" in Latin), and (Thien, " ciel" in vietnamien").

Work humane

2001

Angelina Jolie first of all takes conscience of the humanitarian crises throughout the world whereas it turns Tomb Raider in Kampuchea disaster victim. According to it: “I discovered the things which occur in the world… Kampuchea was a real revelation for me. ” (“I discovered things butt what' S happening in the world… Cambodia was really eye opening for me. ”) Deeply affected by these experiments, it goes to the Office of the High Commission of the United Nations for the refugees (UNHCR or HCR in French-speaking space) in order to obtain more information on the international disorders and to become Ambassador of good will of the UNHCR. During the following months, it agrees to visit refugee camps throughout the world to learn some more on the situation and the conditions from these places. In February, after its first visit, mission a 18 days in Sierra Leone and Tanzania, it expresses how much it was shocked: “I was shocked by what I saw”, adding: “We cannot close us with information and be unaware of the fact that there is million people who suffer in the world. I sincerely want to help. I do not believe to be different from the different one. We wish all the equality and justice, the possibility of having a life full with direction. We need to believe that somebody will tighten us the hand the day when will need some we. ” It flies away then for Kampuchea in June during two weeks, concentrating mainly on the mined ground which is the situation over there. In August, during tens of days, she visits the refugee camps to the Pakistan accommodating the Afghan refugees mainly, this visit answers urgently the call international of the UNHCR and offers 1 million dollars for the Afghan refugees. After the attacks of the September 11th 2001, it was savagely criticized for its engagement towards the Afghan refugees, receiving even three death threats.

2002

In March 2002, during the turning of Beyond Bonders , it visits the refugee camp Osire in Namibia where many refugees of Angola live and meets the representative of the UNHCR in Namibia, Hesdy Rathling. It and the production of film will give later 270 tents and great number of sleeping equipment (mattress, material of bed linen…) with this camp

2003

In December 2003, Angelina Jolie visits Sudanese refugees close to the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The ambassadors of good will Angelina Jolie and Adel Imam meet to work out a scheme of common work aiming at sensitizing the public opinion with the Middle-East with the fate of the refugees.

2004

In October 2004, Angelina Jolie raises the need for safety and access to the villages for moved at the end of its visit in the Sudanese province in the west of Darfur. The Ambassador of good will tells the history of raid and rapes in the villages, including the collective rape of a twelve year old young girl and her mother. “These recent events are horrible and show well that the situation remains unstable”, she says.

2005

In November 2005, Angelina Jolie and the High commissioner for the refugees realize of the impact of the earthquake to Pakistan of October 8th, 2005 which killed nearly 73.000 people and left tens of thousands of others without shelter in one of the most underprivileged areas of an already poor country which accommodates 997 ' 000 of Réfugié S Afghan.

2006

In January 2006, Angelina and Brad Pitt fly away towards Haiti and visit a school of charity founded by Wyclef Jean (Musicien of Hip hop) where they attend a spectacle given by children. Angelina finds an arrangement with a magazine people to show its pregnancy on first page and receives 500.000 $ that it gives to this work.

In November 2006, Angelina Jolie goes to India to meet women of Afghanistan and Myanmar which tell him how they fled persecutions in their countries and found safety in India.

Catalog of films

To come

  • 2007 : Beowulf of Robert Zemeckis: voice of the mother of Grendel

  • 2008: Atlas Shrugged of Ayn Rand and James V. Binder: Dagny Taggart (voice)
  • 2008: Kung Fu Panda of Mark Osborne and John Stevenson: Tiger-cat (voice)
  • 2008: The Changeling of Clint Eastwood
  • 2008: Wanted of Timur Bekmambetov

Producing

  • 2005 : Trudell of Heather Rae: producing exclusive

  • 2005: Lovesick of Sam B. Lorn: producing

Rewards

  • Academy Awards 2000 : Oscar of the female best supporting role for a stolen life

  • Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000: Female best supporting role (Drama) for a stolen life
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2000: Female best supporting role for a stolen life
  • Golden Globe 2000: Female best supporting role for a stolen life
  • Golden Globe 1999: Better actress in a telefilm for Gia, woman of dream
  • Golden Globe 1998: Female best supporting role on TV for George Wallace
  • Hollywood Film Festival 2000: Actress of the year
  • Large Jury Awards 1998: Price of Female role for Gia, woman of dream
  • MTV Movie Awards 2006: Better combat for Mr. & Mrs Smith (with Brad Pitt)
  • National Board off Review Awards 1998: Better female revelation for the Chart of the heart
  • People' S Choice Awards 2005: Better actress of Satellite action
  • Golden delicious Awards 1999: Better actress in a telefilm for Gia, woman of dream
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards 2000: Female best supporting role for a stolen life
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards 1999: Better actress in a telefilm for Gia, woman of dream
  • ShoWest Awards 2000: Female best supporting role of the year for a stolen life
  • Teen Choice Award 2005: Better actress (Action/Adventure/Thriller) for Mr. & Mrs Smith
  • Better film lie for Mr. & Mrs Smith
  • Better combat for Mr. & Mrs Smith (with Brad Pitt)

Remuneration

  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001): 7 million USD

  • Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The cradle of the life (2003): 12 million USD
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005): 10 million USD

References

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