Angelina Jolie

Born in Los Angeles, California on June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie starred in the HBO biopic Gina before earning a supporting actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted. She’s become one of Hollywood’s top marquee names, having starred in movies likeWanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt and Changeling. She’s coupled with actor Brad Pitt and has also directed the film In the Land of Blood and Honey.

Early Life
Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. She rose to stardom in the 1990s. She began acting at a young age, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University.

Breakthrough Role
In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Giabased on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in the Lara Croft films, a FBI profiler in Taking Lives(2004), an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), and a neglected, troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd (2006).
In 2007, Jolie gave a brilliant performance as Mariane Pearl, the pregnant widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, in A Mighty Heart. The film was based on Mariane Pearl's account of her husband's abduction and murder.