Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker and humanist. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, and is known as Hollywood ‘s highest-paid actress.
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| Birthday |
June 4, 1975
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| Age | 49 years |
| Birth place | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Occupation | Actress, filmmaker |
| Husbands | Jonny Lee Miller (m. 1996; div. 2000) Billy Bob Thornton (m. 2000; div. 2003) Brad Pitt (m. 2014; div. 2019) |
Debut
Jolie made her film debut as a child with her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin ‘to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the small-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first starring role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She has starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for her acting role in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Award
Jolie’s lead role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continues her successful action star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received praise for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress .
Directing and producing
Since 2010 she has expanded her career with directing and producing the war dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) and Unbroken (2014), as well as the romantic drama By the Sea (2015). Her biggest business success so far is the fantasy movie Maleficent (2014).
Her tattoos
Angelina’s tattoos have received a lot of media attention and journalists often ask her about it. While not opposed to nude scenes in films, she says that the many tattoos on her body force filmmakers to be more creative when planning nude and love scenes. Cosmetic creams are used to cover her tattoos in some of her productions. Jolie currently has, as far as we know, thirteen tattoos. One of these, on her back, read: Know your rights , and on her forearm she kept a Tennessee Williams quote a prayer for those with a wild heart , when she was with her mother. Furthermore, his tattoos with the Arabic term العزيمة (“willpower”), the Latinproverb quod me nutrit me destru (“that nourishes me, destroys me”), and a Jantragebed written in ancient Khmer and Pali – for her eldest son Maddox. On her left arm are four sets of GPS coordinates, indicating the places where her children were born.
Over the years, she has had other laser tattoos removed or hidden, including “Billy Bob”, the name of her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese symbol for death (死) and a window at the bottom of her back. She explains that she got rid of the window because she “spent all her time looking through windows, wishing she was outside, but now she’s living outside all the time”.
