Full Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Birthday: June 04, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 173cm (5' 7")
Weight: 54kg (120lb)
Hair Colour: Naturally Brown
Eyes: Blue/green
Family: FATHER - John Voight (actor; separated from
Jolie's mother 1976) ; MOTHER - Marcheline Bertrand
(former actress; born 1950; part Iroquois Indian); BROTHER
- James Haven Voight (director; born 1973; studied filmmaking
at University of Southern California; directed sister
in five student films)
Spouse: Billy Bob Thornton (actor director writer; played
together in Pushing Tin; married in Las Vegas on May
5 2000);
Jonny Lee Miller (actor; played together in Hackers;
married on March 28 1996; separated on October 1 1997;
filed for divorce on February 3 1999)
Claim to fame: Earned raves for her performance as supermodel
Gia Carangi, in the HBO biopic Gia (1998)
Nationality: American
Education: New York University (majored in Film; attended
night classes 1997)
Occupation: Actress, Model
Angelina Jolie was born to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline
Bertrand (the couple divorced shortly thereafter) and
began her own acting career at age 5 alongside her Oscar-winning
father in Lookin’ to Get Out (1980). The talented
youngster enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute
at age 11, and continued her career into her teens with
professional modelling and music video shoots. Already
well-trained for the stage and screen, she followed
up the Strasberg education with film studies at New
York University and the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
She debuted on stage in Room Service during that time,
and was directed by her brother, James Haven, in five
student movies.
The still teenaged Jolie spent the next few years getting
good reviews in good films of various quality. She shone
in Cyborg II: Glass Shadows (1993), Hackers (1995),
Foxfire (1996), Love Is All There Is (1996), Without
Evidence (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Playing God (1997),
George Wallace (TV - 1997 - for a Golden Globe win and
an Emmy nomination), True Women (TV - 1997), Playing
by Heart (1998 - for a National Board of Review Breakthrough
Performance award), and Gia (TV - 1998 - for another
Golden Globe, a Golden Satellite, a Screen Actors Guild
award, and a second Emmy nomination). That year she
married fellow actor, Jonny Lee Miller, and added unpredictability
to her growing fame with her reported wedding outfit
-- black rubber pants and Miller’s name in blood
on the co-ordinating white shirt. The couple divorced
a year later. Jolie just recently married Billy Bob
Thornton and sports his name on her person in tattoo
ink.
1999 brought Pushing Tin (1999), Hell’s Kitchen
(1999), The Bone Collector (1999) and the much lauded
Girl, Interrupted (1999 - for a Golden Globe, a Screen
Actors’ Guild award, a ShoWest award, and the big
one: an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
The Oscar ceremony brought further notoriety to Jolie.
Critics sneered at her gothic get-up and her gushing
adoration for Haven -- when folks can’t fault your
performances, they’ll get you for brotherly love.
Upcoming for the actor are the films Dancing In The
Dark, Gone In 60 Seconds, Tomb Raider and Along Came
A Spider. She will assuredly be busy for quite some
time. At age 24, with the entertainment industry’s
top awards on her mantel and stellar talent to spare,
Jolie is a Hollywood legend in the making.
