Angelina Jolie was born on June 7, 1975 to Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. After her parents’ separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father. When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions.
Jolie appeared in five of her brother’s student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella “Cash” Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer’s headquarters and then self-detonate. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence, Jolie starred as Kate “Acid Burn” Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers , where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release
From there, Jolie’s career skyrocketed due to her starring in well-received films such as Gia and Girl, Interrupted.
In 2002, Jolie adopted Maddox Chivan from Cambodia. Since then she has adopted two more children, Zahara and Pax, and has born three children, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox.
In 2005 she met Brad Pitt during the filming of their movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and the two have been in a relationship ever since.
Jolie focuses her time on her many humanitarian efforts, including being a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
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