HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS

Since 2001, the actress has actively collaborated in multiple missions to help the most disadvantaged

During the ceremony, Jolie acknowledged that it was because of her travels "that I understood her responsibility to others." And Is that Californian with the most envied eyes of Hollywood has an extensive tour in which humanitarian work is concerned. In fact, since last year he has been a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (ACNUR), a position for which he has performed more than forty missions around the world.

AWARDS

 

Awards

Oscar awards
Best Supporting Actress
1999 Girl, Interrupted

Golden Globes

Best Supporting Actress
2000 Girl, Interrupted
Best Actress - Miniseries or TV-Movie
1998 Gia
Best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or telefilme
1997 George Wallace

SAG Awards                                              

Best Supporting Actress
1999 Girl, Interrupted
Best Actress - Mini

Angelina Jolie last night picked up the Jean Hersholt Award for her humanitarian work at the fifth Gobernors Awards ceremony in Hollywood. "When I met with the survivors of wars, famines and rapes, I understood what most people's lives on this earth were, and how fortunate I am to have something to eat, a safe place to live and The happiness of having a healthy family, "he said when picking up the award from the hands of Star Wars director George Lucas.

Angelina Jolie receives the honorary Oscar clad by Brad Pitt and her son Maddox

The actress was joined in a special evening by Brad Pitt and her son, Maddox, 12. Jolie, who last May revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy to prevent cancer, chose for the occasion an elegant black dress from Versace. He completed his styling with an elegant bow, diamond earrings and a discreet make-up that only highlighted his eyes. For his part, Brad and Maddox were very elegant in tuxedos.

SONS

About their sons 

During the 10 years they were a pajera, they had four children together, plus a boy and a girl Jolie adopted before the relationship.

1. Maddox Chivan, born in 2001
Jolie adopted Maddox in Cambodia when she was only a few months old. He and his sister Zahara were adopted by Pitt in 2006.

2. Zahara Marley, born in 2005
Jolie adopted Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt in Ethiopia when the girl was six months old.

3. Shiloh Nouvel, born 2006
Shiloh was the first biological daughter of Jolie and Pitt.

4. Pax Thien, born in 2003
Jolie adopted Pax in Vietnam when she was of age in 2007. Due to local adoption laws, she adopted him as a single mother and Pitt adopted him as her son a year later.

5. Knox Léon, born in 2008
Jolie stunned her followers when she announced that she and Pitt were expecting 

Angelina Jolie has shown many times that, besides a successful actress, she is a great speaker, with speeches in which she has been able to defend her messages very well. But during the act that took place on Saturday to release the film, it was the children of Angelina who surprised by saying a few words.
Maddox took the stage and this is what he said: "Thanks to everyone for attending tonight. We finally did it. It is a great honor to present this film with all of you and to be able to be with my mother and my family. And now, I'd like to give way to my little sister Shiloh, who has something to say. "

Shiloh, 10, addressed the audience saying in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia: "My name is Shiloh and I love Cambodia," he said. Angelina, dazzling in a magenta dress, was very excited: "I can not find the words to express what it means for me to have relied on me to tell part of the history of this country," he said. "This film has not been made to focus on the horrors of the past but to celebrate the goodness and talent of the people of Cambodia. Above all, it is my way of showing my appreciation to Cambodia

PERSONAL LIFE

  He had his first boyfriend at the age of 14. Her mother allowed them to live together at home, and after her breakup she returned to pursue her career as an actress at age 16. During the filming of Hackers (1995), he had an affair with British actor Jonny Lee Miller. They stopped dating for many months but eventually married on March 28, 1996. She attended her wedding in black leather pants and a white T-shirt, in which she wrote the boy's name with her blood. They separated in September 1997 and divorced on February 3, 1999. He began a relationship with actress and model Jenny Shimizu during the filming of Foxfire (1996). According to Shimizu, their relationship lasted for many years and continued even as Jolie was with other people. In 2003, when asked if he was bisexual, he replied, "Of course." After a two-month courtship, she married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas. They met in Pushing Tin (1999), then Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern, while Jolie was dating actor Timothy Hutton, who played Playing by Heart (1997). Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a Cambodian boy in March 2002; Separated three months later and divorced on May 27, 2003.

In early 2005, she was involved in a scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce between actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The 30-year-old actress gave birth to a girl on 27 May 2006 in Namibia, as a result of her relationship with Pitt, then 42. The couple decided to call Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, which in Hebrew means Peace or tranquility. In 2011, she ranked first with Sarah Jessica Parker on Forbes magazine's list of best-paid Hollywood actresses.

wedding

The ceremony was intimate and simple. They include a spectacular Angelina in a wedding dress by Luigi Massi for Versace and a veil decorated with drawings of him and his children, Maddox, 13, Pax, ten, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and The twins Vivienne and Knox, six. "For us it was important that the day was relaxed and full of joy. It was a very special day that we wanted to share with our children and a very happy moment for our family," confessed Brad and Angelina

MOVIES

In 2001 Lara Croft played the heroine of Tomb Raider, a role that gave a great impetus to his already important career turning it into an international star. In this adaptation of the video game "Tomb Raider", he had to undergo martial arts classes. During that year he starred with the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas in the film Sin original, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. In 2002 he works in Seven Days and a Life, and in 2003 he returns to play "Lara Croft" in the film titled Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. He subsequently performs Amar dangerously. Along with Ethan Hawke, he stars in the film Lives of Others, in 2004. In that same year, he gave voice to "Lola" a fish of the film of Dreamworks Shark Tale. Later appears in the film Alexander Magno, of Oliver Stone, like "Olimpia".

In 2005 he performs the action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a commercial success, alongside that would be his romantic partner Brad Pitt. In 2006, Jolie works on the film The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro and debuts as director with the documentary A Place in Time, in 2007, on 27 different locations of the world in only one week. He then stars in An Invincible Heart, about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. For it received its fourth nomination to the Golden Globe and its third nomination to the Prizes of the Union of Actors. That same year he worked on the Beowulf animation, based on the based on the English poem of the same name, directed by Robert Zemeckis. In 2008 he participates in Wanted, adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar and puts the voice in the film of Dreamworks, Kung Fu Panda. Clint Eastwood hires her for Changeling, a drama filmed in December 2007 that gave her another Oscar nomination for best actress. In 2009, Salt was filmed in New York and Washington DC, suffering a small injury in the English poem of the same name, directed by Robert Zemeckis. In 2008 he participates in Wanted, adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar and puts the voice in the film of Dreamworks, Kung Fu Panda. Clint Eastwood hires her for Changeling, a drama filmed in December 2007 that gave her another Oscar nomination for best actress.

     

Jolie had a dysfunctional relationship with her father, which began when Voight abandoned the family. They reconciled when they appeared together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but the relationship deteriorated again. He asked a court to legally remove his surname "Voight" in favor of his middle name, which he had used for a long time as a stage name; Was granted on September 12, 2002. They were not spoken for more than six years although they later began to relate following the death of their mother due to ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007.

Filmography

2017 Maleficent 2

2017 The Breadwinner

2016 First They Killed My Father

2015 By the Sea / Director and Screenwriter

2014 Maleficent

2013 Cleopatra

2011 In the Land of Blood and Honey / Director and Screenwriter

2011 Flowinhg Girls

2010 The tourist

2010 Salt

Atlas Shrugged

2008 Wanted

2008 The Changeling

2007 A Mighty Heart

2005 The Good Shepherd

2005 Mr. and Mrs. Smith

2005 Sledge: The Untold Story

2004 Taking Lives

2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Alexander

2004 Mr. and Mrs. Smith

2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

2003 Beyond Borders

2002 Life or Something Like It

2001 Original Sin

2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2000 Gone In 60 Seconds

Pushing Tin

1999 The Bone Collector

1999 Hell's Kitchen

1999 Girl, Interrupted

1998 Hell's Kitchen N.Y.C.

1998 Playing by Heart

1997 Playing God

1996 Without Evidence

1996 Mojave Moon

1996 Foxfire

1996 Love Is All There Is

1995 Hackers

1993 Cyborg 2

                                      

BIOGRAPHY OF ANGELINA JOLIE

                                         Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California is an American actress.

Daughter of actress Marcheline Bertrand and actor Jon Voight. Sister of the actor James Haven and niece of the singer and songwriter Chip Taylor. His godfathers were the actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.

On the part of father has German and Slovak ancestry, and on the part of mother, French-Canadian, Dutch and German.

After the separation of their progenitors in 1976, Jolie and its brother lived with its mother who left the action to dedicate to raise their children.

When he was six, along with his mother and his partner, filmmaker Bill Day, they moved to Palisades, in Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. They returned to Los Angeles five years later.

During his student years he participated in a theater group, where he coincided with other future stars like Ed Harris and Holly Hunter. Following this experience, he enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute, where he trained for two years and appeared in several theatrical productions. She also attended Beverly Hills High School, where she said she felt isolated among the children of some of the better-off families because her mother survived on a modest income. He was mocked for his thinness, wearing glasses and orthopedic appliances. She was transferred to Moreno High School, an alternative school where she became a punk.

She left her acting classes and her aspirations were to become funeral director, so she did embalming studies. At age sixteen, he graduated from high school and rented his own apartment, before returning to acting studios. By then he suffered from insomnia, eating disorder and began to experiment with drugs; At age 20, said he had consumed "nearly all possible," in particular heroin. She suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide (at age 19 and at 22, when she tried to hire a hit man to kill her). At age 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and remained 72 hours in the psychiatric ward of UCLA Medical Center. Two years later, after the adoption of his first child, he found stability in his life.

He worked as a model and appeared in music videos of Lemonheads, Rolling Stones or Lenny Kravitz. In 1998 appears in the film Hell's Kitchen, and also in Playing by Heart, next to Sean Connery. He stars Out of Control, opposite John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett. He then works with Denzel Washington on The Bone Collector. Incarnates Lisa Rowe in Inocencia interrupted of 1999, based on the life of "Susanna Kaysen", that interpreted the actress Winona Ryder. Jolie won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. He then appears in 60 seconds as an ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage.

Health

Angelina Jolie is an unconventional actress and proof of this was her decision to undergo surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes in order to minimize the chances of suffering cancer, a disease that died her mother, her grandmother and your aunt. Two years earlier the actress had undergone a preventive mastectomy. Both procedures performed because she, like many other women in the world who do not know, are carriers of genetic mutations BRCA1 and BRAX2, which raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.