MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES
ANGELINA JOLIE
BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS:
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
modeling 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, Johnny 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.
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