Angelina Jolie is perhaps the most famous and controversial celebrities of the modern world.
One of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, she has been the darling of media more for
her personal life than her movies.
Despite a troubled personal life, Jolie has managed to inspire people all over the world
with her humanitarian and cancer awareness efforts.
This varied dimensions of her personality make the biography of Angelina Jolie an interesting one.
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Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie was born on 4th June 1975 to actor Jon Voight
and actress Marcheline Bertrand in Los Angeles, California.Unfortunately, the parents of Angelina
Jolie divorced just after two years of her birth after which Jolie and her brother were
raised by a single mom.
She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years and then enrolled
at Beverly Hills High School.She later studied drama at New York University.During her high
school she felt isolated among the children of some of the area's affluent families because
her mother survived on a more modest income.
She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing
glasses and braces.Her early attempts at modeling, at her mother's insistence, proved unsuccessful.
As a teenager, Jolie found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and
as a result she self-harmed.She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder.Jolie
suffered episodes of depression and planned to commit suicide twice—at age 19 and again
at 22, when she attempted to hire a hitman to kill her.When she was 24, she experienced
a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to UCLA Medical Center's psychiatric ward.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get
Out (1982).Jolie committed to acting professionally at the age of 16, but initially found it difficult
to pass auditions, often being told that her demeanor was "too dark.
Her film career began with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993).With the failure
of this film, Jolie was disappointed with her performance and decided to never act again
in another movie.In 1995 she was given her first leading role in a major film, Hackers
(1995).Her breakthrough roles was that of Cornelia Wallace in the critically acclaimed
biographical film George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998).She won an Oscar Award for Best
Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted.
Her starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
established her as a leading Hollywood actress.
She continued her action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt
(2010), and The Tourist (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the
dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), the latter of which earned her a nomination
for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014) and it's
sequel Maleficent 2 (2019).
She is also known for her voice role in animation film series Kung Fu Panda (2008–present).
Jolie has also directed and written several war dramas, namely In the Land of Blood and
Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), and First They Killed My Father (2017).
Despite earning enough fame and recognition, Angelina Jolie has mostly struggled to find
stability in her marriage life.
She has married three times so far with first marriage in 1995.
She married Jonny Lee Miller in 1995 but got divorced soon in 1999.
In the following year, Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton.
Even this marriage could not last beyond the year 2003.
Later she met Brad Pitt while shooting for Mr. and Mrs. Smith and got married to him
in 2014 in a private ceremony.
The couple, popularly known as Brangelina among fans, has six children together, out
of which three are adopted and from different ethnicity.Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt,
in 2016.
Despite the ups and downs of her personal life, Angelina Jolie has remained actively
engaged in humanitarian work.
She usually donates one-third of her earnings to charity and supports various causes.
Due to her active engagement, UN made her the Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee
Agency in 2001.
Angelina Jolie is also quite active in raising breast cancer and ovarian cancer awareness
after she lost her mother in 2007 due to cancer.Doctors told her that she had 87% risk of breast cancer
and 50% risk of ovarian cancer.In 2015, she revealed that she had undergone more surgeries
to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes to lower down the risk of cancer in future.
More than a decade since its inception, Angelina Jolie has finally joined Instagram on Aug
20 to share a letter she received from a teenage Afghan girl and to share the stories and the
voices of those across the globe who are fighting for their basic human rights after Taliban
take-over of Afghanistan.
Although she was born in a family of actors, Jolie charted her own way to fame and success.
She is also proof that beauty can exist side by side with brains, after all.
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